It's finally here!
After 3/4 on it, here's the very first fanfic I personally did, based on the VoidOverlord!AU. As usual, you have both the A03 version and a Tumblr one! No Angst: Just cute humor with the Voidseers panicking over a dwarf planet. Enjoy!
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Rating: General Audiences
Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Fandom: Danny Phantom
Language: English
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Today on the INSS also known as King Phantom’s castle, a special event is happening: It’s the king’s 300th deathday anniversary and it’s not uncommon to extend the celebration in two days. The first one is the death itself and Phantom remains in his castle as walking around after a sudden severe case of electrocution is not ideal.
Then, the second day arrives and most of his friends and allies bring him gifts to celebrate the second “birthday” of a revenant. This year, Frostbite sculpted him a frozen miniature of Amity Park. Pandora offered him clothing ornate in Persephore’s image. Doretha gave him a silver armor made from the scales of an Ice ghost dragon and Wulf gifted him with a star-themed necklace with runes on it.
Now, it was the Royal Astronomy club’s turn to give Phantom a gift. The club is entirely run by Voidseers, the latest kingborne race of ghosts to exist: They are pure black specters with endless eyes shapes shrouded in white and dark purple robes with a long, conical cowl similar to a cultist. With their arms always crossed and their “hands” hidden in their sleeves most of the time, they study every aspect of the Cosmos and essentially please Phantom’s secondary obsession.
A four, goat, blue-eyed voidseer floats its way through the violet, futuristic corridor filled with mint green luminescent lights towards a triangle-shaped, black door and knocks three times with their amber crystal insectoid hand. After a few seconds, steam pours out of the small vents upwards and the door opens itself to them. The cyan ornate voidseer then goes through the door and reaches an entire black office with only tiny colored lights ranging from green, yellow, blue, and purple to see. At the center, there is an octagonal-shaped, dark blue table with two crystal lamps on the center.
It is on this table that four greater Voidseers are speaking about something the goat-eyed specter probably caught midway through. Probably either about the Cosmos or his Etherealness’ deathday, they thought. Regardless, they came towards the Quatuor:
“Great Hasturs: the Orrery is finally complete. Would you like to see it before giving it to His Etherealness?" the amber goat-eyed voidseer inquired with a bit of stress in their raspy, cackling, voice.
The Hasturs as they’re called are the greater Voidseers that run the Royal Astronomy club. They’re easily recognized by their long, two parts garments covering their branched robes with a simplified image of their wing and a black triangle in a colored circle, two shoulder pads that vary depending of whom, armbands, and a little cosmetic around their elongated cowl. Each one of them bears one of the four colors seen in the meeting office: Green are the one from the Biology wings, studying Life on other planets and how Evolution goes. Blue ones are the club’s mechanics who build machines and spaceships. Purple ones are the Astronomers and form the bulk of the club as they study Space itself. Lastly, the Yellow ones study the exoplanets’ civilizations and serve as the ones dealing with paperwork.
One of the Hastur, a yellow luminescent one with three slit-looking slots eyes turns their head around the smaller voidseer and nodded their presence:
“Oh yeah. We’re coming!" replied the lilting, joyful yellow Hastur as they waved.
“The Orrery is in the club’s hub center, Hastur Thoth." advised the smaller voidseer before leaving the shadowy office.
Thoth is the yellow Hastur who leads the Diplomatic wing and replied to the goat-eyed one. They have golden, curved shoulder pads with ethereal shoulder tassels, their two-part garment motif being two different skeletons interacting above arrows and two flat magic “horns” floating around their cowl with three small motifs engraved in them: a hand, a parchment, and a bird. The “horned” Hastur is the first to leave the meeting room, followed by their peers:
“We should get going. His Etherealness should be back from his trip to the Far Frozen by now.” Thoth said while levitating above the ground, taking some of the paperwork and retracting their golden-tipped black tentacles limbs into the robe’s sleeves before exiting the meeting room.
“Naturally...although Frostbite tends to keep him a tad longer as the Yetis are devoted to him like we are.” nodded the crouched green ornate Hastur as they followed right behind Thoth.
“They sculpted the entire necropolis of Amity Park last time I’ve checked" noted the blue Hastur with a semi-muffled robotic voice as they snapped the right blue claws serving as hands.
“When did you hear that Curio?" asked the purple Hastur with arms crossed and their mantis limbs visible while fixing the hammer-wielding voidseer.
“Some of my engineers overheard the yetis speaking about it before Frostbite came back with the Void Overlord, Hastur Onion." taunted Curio, their three eyes shifting from neutral to a smug expression.
“You ghastly toaster! My name is Orion and you know it!” roared the mantis-limbed Hastur with their face now entirely covered by pure black tendrils flailing out.
“Calm your tendrils or Nyx will pluck them all out with her beak from both of you!" The green Hastur stopped by not only putting themselves between the two but through her pet owl Nyx screeching.
“Ok, Veles! I’ll stop there, excused Curio, shrugging with their claws while keeping their hammer.”
“Sorry for caring myself" confessed Orion, retracting the mantis limbs and putting them back in his robe sleeves.
Veles is the green Hastur behind the Biology wing with a sole, green, sewed eye. Always crouched and holding a wooden staff with a reddish-black skull and bioluminescent mushroom on it when not levitating, they wear wooden garments, fungus shoulder pads and her two-part motifs is a planet with each step of Life’s evolution on it. Her cowl has a darker patch of gray cloth sewed into it and extends into a ragged cape. A ghost owl with a big black eye and two sewed other eyes bearing black and white feathers whom they called Nyx perches on the mushroom shoulder pads.
“You act like our lord when he’s called Inviso Bill…”, remarked Veles to Orion as they cherish Nyx to calm her down.
Orion is the purple Hastur from the Astronomers and often acts as the Club’s leader due to their knowledge of Space but also to their proficiency at Magic. They bear reddish-purple shoulder pads with mini dormant black holes on each, a copper mask with purple neons on each side, a simplified cosmos on their two parts outer garments, a neon purple circle with the signature black triangle, and an Omega-shaped, dark red crown with four spikes floating at the center of their cowl.
“Anyway, how’s the orrery Curio?”, The golden-eyed Hastur asked Curio about.
“The main system is working perfectly and we checked everything. Judging by your amber worker coming to us, they probably finished bringing the orrery to the hub.” The semi-mechanical Hastur nodded.
Curio is the blue Hastur and the Black-smith of the Mechanic wing. They have three parts shoulder pads on each side with a part of a cog on the right, a rocketship motif on the two parts outer garment, and a metallic claw as their left hand. They’re the only ones with a small cowl that has been cut through to let the back of their head free (which is another cog part). Curio speaks with a gas mask attached to their back and wields a black mechanical hammer with the blunt part somehow similar to the king’s symbol.
The elder ghost cultists fly their way through Cosmovalley: a part of Phantom’s castle entirely dedicated to the Royal Astronomy Club found on the castle’s left and into the hub. Their arrival is welcomed by the dozens of Voidseers, all-around one of the greatest gifts they ever did to Danny:
“Welcome back, Great Mecanicus Hastur. The orrery is now ready!” greeted a five, blue-eyed, Voidseer who welcomes them.
“Time to show this bad boy to him!” spoke Curio with a confident, robotic tone mostly done through the voice module from his gas mask.
Curio lifts their metallic, left claw and clashes each side thrice before they lower it back to hold the signature weapon. Four blue Voidseers take a bit from an enormous sheet and fly upwards to reveal the orrery: A marvel in astronomy meant for studying Gravity around galaxies:
The orrery is a cylindrical dark purple table as large as a room with luminescent wires, iron cogs, and air vents on each side. They’re all hidden by an outer, curving, armored black box with neon motifs able to take on all colors of the Cosmos. Although massive, they serve to house the machinery to make what’s above the table work: A Lavanda force field as big as a literal house held in constant levitation all of the Solar System. This slightly visible sphere of cosmos does not only holds them but makes them move on their own as if gravitating around the miniature of the Sun. Each planet looks like a perfect reproduction of the real ones and depending on which you’re looking at, you can notice their moons orbiting.
The Royal Astronomy Club awed in unison the moment their sight landed on the machine and stayed silent to let both Magic and Tech speak through the orrery. Some flew for a bit to inspect the planets and others poked the force field with their limb to feel the nebulae before retracting but all were impressed by the results of days of efforts.
That is until one purple Voidseer with bird talons as hands and a sole cross pupil as its eye broke the silence:
“Where’s Pluto?, noted the voidseer from the Astronomy wing, puzzled by what he found out.”
“Didn’t Pluto get booted out of the Solar System because of its orbit’s path?” replied a yellow one with eight small arachnid eyes.
“Nay: it’s still part of it but as a dwarf planet as it’s dwelling around Kuiper’s belt near Neptune.” corrected a blue one with tendrils holding a wrench.
The Hastur are too puzzled by this discovery and after a quick nod, Thoth insert themselves into the conversation while the three others fly toward the orrery to find the dwarf planet:
“Where are you going with this?” Thoth asked the talon-handed voidseer, concerned by their question, wrapping its upper left tentacle around the robe’s collar.
“I heard his Etherealness speaking about planets with Orion and he insisted on Pluto being his favorite. My point is simple: If the King notices Pluto is not on an orrery of the Solar System meant as his birthday gift, we’re so fucked we might just hide in that sarcophagus with Pariah Dark just to avoid being fucking disintegrated.”
And silence came back but not for a good reason. Even if the voidseers didn’t properly hear what the talon voidseer said, it was enough to send a chill down each of the ghost astronomers’ spines if they even had one in the first place. The others Hastur also heard it and inspect every bit of the force field and they too came to the same conclusion:
“HOLY QUASAR! I knew it: I forgot about Danny’s request about Pluto!” Orion screamed into the club’s hub, hiding their face with four tendrils limbs.
“Wait, WHAT?! How did you manage to forget that?!” Veles inquired with an actual wide-open eye revealing a cat slit-looking pupil despite their eyes said to be shut and black tentacles flailing out of their head.
“That’s the thing: I have no fucking idea how I forgot that one dwarf planet!” Orion shrugged with a wide-open, twitching eye that almost peaks out of their face.
“Not like this, Orion! Not after what you have done!” Curio screeched with a voice so high it was fully saturated and corrupted by the voice module on its gas mask.
Thoth came back to the others and put themselves between Orion and Veles to avoid unnecessary dispute and slapped each one with their two tendrils like a whip:
“Can we stop screeching like space ghastly aberrations and think about a plan?” Thoth stopped with the whipping.
“What plan?” Curio asked with a much more audible voice, puzzled by the yellow
“Hold up, Thoth: What do you have in mind?” Veles asked with their right, two-fingered hand wrapped around a collar and Nyx the owl leaned her head on the left at roughly 90 degrees.
“We’re going to add Pluto to the Orrery” Thoth proudly tells, trying to raise the club’s morale at the best they could.
“You dense, golden Observant: We don’t have time for this!” Curio disagreed as their worries is amplified by the gas mask voice module shifting into a voice heard through talkie walkies.
“That’s why I will welcome Phantom and distract him from going into Cosmovalley until you three polished it!”
The Hasturs think about the plan and why they won’t deny this is a bit late for corrections, it’s still better than being mauled by an eldritch scream made of ectoplasm and dark matter for missing a dwarf planet:
“Ok but you better be good at what you’re doing.” Veles reminded Thoth with Nyx screeching as a warning of failure.
“Attention to all members of the club: We will begin operation DWARF EMERGENCY!”, Orion declared to all Voidseers within the hub of Cosmovalley as they flew above the orrery. “The Astronomers and the Biologists will work together to recreate Pluto. The Engineers will modify the orrery’s machinery to add Pluto onto the force field. The Diplomatic wing will backup the Engineers out while Hastur Thoth will keep his Etherealness away until we all finished up. Understood?”
After this quick declaration, none of the Voidseers had any questions whatsoever and Orion waved at all the crowd of ghost cultists, allowing them to begin the operation. The green and purple Voidseers went to a triangle portal with a violet nebula while the blue and yellow ones went to a cyan nebula to bring the tools needed for such endeavor. Thoth separated themselves from the rest, leaving the rest to Curio, Veles, and Orion. Nyx the ghost owl also followed Thoth but used Invisibility as Veles wanted to have a means of telling when they were getting close.
The green Voidseers are known to be excellent elemental masters and once Orion created six mini planet cores through cosmomancy to work with, a group of ten Astronomers and ten Biologists sculpt each one with everything they know about Pluto and its moons:
“Oy, Earth benders! Pass me the rocks so that we can fix it into the cores.” A purple one with meaty claws requested to the elemental bending biologists.
“Isn’t Pluto made of ice?” a green one with a filled hexagon as their pupil wondered.
“Nope: it’s covered by 20 km of dummy thick ice. The kind of ice you see at the Yetis’.” one of the elemental benders with clawed human hands kindly replied.
“Oh ok!” nodded the hexagon-eyed biologist.
For twenty minutes, the Biologists brought mostly rocks of many colors to fit each planet and once it’s done, they all gather to Pluto and backed up by Veles’ powers over Nature due to being space-nature cored, they create a coat of ice thick enough to hide the rocks.
Now, it’s the turn of the Astronomers to sync all of these mini planets into a viable orbit. They first create a small point serving as the orbit’s center between Pluto and Charon as the real gravity center is actually sandwiched by both Pluto and Charon:
“Did I put the gravity center at the right place”, pondered one purple voidseer with four small slit eyes while holding what looks like a quasi-invisible amount of space ectoplasm.
“Hmm...Maybe slightly to the left?”, advised another one with webbed paws.
"Like this?", wondered the four-eyed voidseer looking at his fellow co-workers.
"Scratch that. Come back to the right", corrected the webby astronomer.
After fifteen minutes of properly dealing with gravity (and finding the perfect place for the gravity’s center), the purple voidseers add the other moons into the orbit and make sure they not only orbit around the sandwich of dwarf planet and moon but also at the exact speed as they do in real life.
When Orion and Veles approved the planets and the orbit, both wings return to the hub where the Engineers are already working hard to create a spare place for Pluto around the mini Kuiper’s belt. Having finished up giving the tools to the blue Voidseers, they gathered around the other wings and used their powers to back up the combined powers of both the Biologists and the Astronomers to reduce their work into a proper miniature so that they can integrate into the orrery:
“Hey, you guys! Bring Pluto and its moons here: There’s a small spot with no meteorites that Curio made for it” noticed one Diplomat voidseer with long and thin, insectoid arms while pointing out the spot.
“Okidoki! Just go a bit on your right so that we can all pass” another yellow voidseers with mantis limbs and large googly eyes said while telling the others to come near the spot.
With luck thanks to Curio’s mastery over metal and electricity, the yellow voidseers gently landed the Pluto miniature they worked on, and with the rest of the club, they joined forces in keeping the force field stable. Curio and their engineers had to deactivate the orrery in order to modify it but this would mean the force field would disappear, hence the Diplomatic wing’s help by using their space magic to stabilize it until the Astronomers and Biologists came:
“Need a holosupport, here!”, one blue voidseer requested with a wrench held by clawed hands.
“Comin’ right up, amiko.” another voidseer Engineer with a circle as their eye's outline a small box with a blue hole in it that they give to his buddy.
“You never told me you spoke Esperanto”, noticed the claw-handed one.
“Oh yeah: One of the yellow guys taught me in my free time. That’s why they took me on one of our trips to Wulf’s tribes or something” revealed the dilated-eyed engineer.
“You lucky bastard.”, the wrench-wielding voidseer spoke with a tad of jealousy towards them.
As they’re almost done, a screech came closer until a pure spark ignited into the Hub, blinding a few Voidseers who were too close for a bit: it was Nyx who came back into one of Veles’ shoulder pads, still screeching:
“He’s coming!” Veles said after looking at their pet owl screaming to warn them.
“Holy Pulsar! We’re not gonna make it!” panicked Orion as their sole eye glares at the great door to Cosmovalley.
“Almost done! Prepare the EctoStabilizer Mecanicus!” Curio ordered to their engineers, still stressed by keeps its cool as the last polish is done.
When the machinery was fully done, Curio pushed a button that enveloped the force field in a thin, invisible coat of blue ectoplasm, stabilizing it until it was all good. When nothing happened for a minute, Orion prompted the club though lowering its tentacles to stop using Space magic. Everyone removed their powers, anxious to whether they either succeed or fail in adding Pluto: It looked fine but side effects can happen and they need a sharp eye to find them. They all wait…
...Until pressured steam was heard from the main hub’s door. The door opened to reveal not only the shape of Thoth but also one with a green glow on the back of its head. Once the steam finally left, they notice him:
Phantom was finally there: He wears his black and white jumpsuit filled with green neon he’s been known for, a silver-plated armor hiding his white boots, a cylindrical silver and white gauntlet covering his arms, and a black and green, a white garment coming fro his belt imitating a skeleton’s pelvis with a black badge and a white D at its center, and a five-parts nebula-themed cape linked to his white collar. He’s also noticeable thanks to his death-like white skin tone with some of his mouth muscle visible underneath the cheekbones due to extensive use of “screaming attacks” and those soft yet sharp blueish white hair ending in a long floating ponytail. He also bears a pure black ring on his left hand and a crown made from shards of black ice, ever levitating on his head within a mist of green nitrogen whose smoke always goes downwards, radiating with an aura as cold as to absolute zero.
His pure black eyes now look at what’s in front of him. The Voidseers are worried the orrery will collapse but much to their surprise, it just works as if Pluton wasn’t added at the last minute. Danny’s eyes widen and his mint green iris now glows like a nebula as his sight lands on the orrery. Thoth believed he had literal stars in his eyes at this moment when the King spoke to them:
“What is...this?”
“Well...we thought about something big for your 300th deathday so...we made this.”
Phantom couldn’t hide his smile: a genuine, wholesome one he never thought will when offered gifts about Space. While he was used to getting space-related gifts from the club, he never thought the Voidseers would go as far as creating a whole miniature of the Solar System for him to keep:
“Happy deathday, your Etherealness!” they all say to him in complete, joyful unison not only because it is the king’s birthday but also the orrery doesn’t malfunction at all.
The King from beyond the Stars flies towards the force field, filled with wonder and curiosity: He stares at each planet and their moons from the Sun to Kuiper’s belt. He accidentally phases his hand through the force field and felt cosmic winds flowing the same manner he can when using space powers:
“That’s so cool! It feels like water!”
“We filled the orrery with enough magic to make it look like we’re looking at the Cosmos” noted the purple Voidseer with talon hands as he was the closest to him
That’s when Danny noticed one thing catching his eyes: one frozen dwarf planet with five moons orbiting around it, hidden among Kuiper’s meteorites. He smiled and dashed near it as a blur, leaving a quick, subzero wind and those near it had to rub themselves from the cold wave. No doubt, he found Pluto and he was hyped for it!
At first, he only stared at like cats with their wide pupil only to poke the dwarf planet with his semi-clawed hands, almost holding it gently without disrupting the orbit:
“Aw, it’s so cute! Did you ask for some Yetis to do it?”, he asked even though he kept his sight on Pluto.
“Nope: we did it ourselves!”, remarked a green Voidseer with seven eyes forming an upside-down arrow.
“oh shit for real?” Danny realized with a nod of recognition at the Club.
The same Voidseer nodded upside down to assure him all was done by the club and only the club. Some purple Voidseers were afraid only to breathe when Phantom finally removed his hands from the dwarf planet.
The Hastur came back to him and they’re met with a king not only pleased with his gift but also proud of them. At this point, they could see him shed one or two tears falling into a tiny shard of ice he broke in his hands:
“Thanks, guys. That’s one of the best I’ve ever had.” the King cried with pure joy
“No problemo, amiko,” Thoth told him with the most genuine tone he ever had.
“Now, where do you want it to be?”, Veles asked him with that raspy granny tone as they leaned near him.
“Wait, isn’t the orrery a tad large,” asked a puzzled Phantom now that he found out about the orrery’s size since he focused on what’s inside it so far.
“Pfff! No big deal: we can reduce it and bring it anywhere”, Curio pointed while some of the Engineers widen their eyes with bewilderment.
“Sounds good to me.” Phantom nodded before he sent a triangle-shaped black portal below the orrery.
When the portal was formed, the Hastur held the orrery and went into the void portal with it. Before joining them, Danny waved one last time to the Voidseer and dived headfirst into it, sealing the portal behind him. The rest of the club stayed silent…
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“HOLY FUCK! WE MADE IT!” shouted one Voidseer waving its tendrils to show their victory.
