(I need to finish my other fics before thinking of others Q^Q)
Basically we've seen quite a few Danny getting hunted down by the GIW and ending up in Gotham resulting in him warning certain Bats (mainly just Jason) that hes in danger as well--- but what if the GIW decided to target 'smaller fish' in order to train themselves against Phantom; their main target.
Unfortunately Team Phantom is too busy trying to keep the calm around Amity Park and don't realize it until they're too late.
The JL never see them coming.
The Bats are frantically looking for what should be their literal assassin trained Robin, Red Hood and Black Bat.
Supers are flying around the area looking for any trace of Supergirl and Superboy (I). Not even Tim's trackers on Conner show anything (just like the ones he had on his fellow Bats).
Arrows had sent Green Arrow and Arsenal to help with the search of the Bats, Roy leaving Lian behind with Dinah, only to drop off the face of the Earth.
The Flash, Blue Beetle and Hawkwoman are all reported as MIA.
An Emergency Meeting is announced and trying to get into contact with all the other fellow heroes. Some were known to be off planet but there were a few who'd failed to respond at all...
Batman is the first to realize a common factor to all those who've disappeared as most had concluded something or someone was targeting heroes.
They'd all died.
Diana was the one to bring forward worst news; the hunt wasn't done.
Impulse, Red Robin, Cyborg, Hawkman, Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman herself were possible targets as well.
Cyborg was able to recover and corrupted and dropped emergency call from Barry
"Those weirdos in white from earlier are attacking downtown, could use some backup asap. Something about Anti-Ecto Acts or whate-- Hey! Ugh"
A shiver went down their spines as they collectively told stories about spotting men in white suits walk around their cities. Some had brushed them off whilst others had kept tabs but the guys seemed to have lost interest and left.
It was a terrible oversight.
"Looks like some assholes are digging their noses into my turf, gonna stake them out tonight" Jason had told Bruce the last night they'd seen each other, "My guys they were wearing white suits, terrible choice for Crime Alley or Gotham"
Red Hood had said he didn't need backup as he would just gather intel, still that was also the night Black Bat and Robin were paired for patrol and she'd indicated she'd check in on him before the end of the night.
The three never got to call in for the night.
Oracle had informed him that Red Hood's helmet had detonated, fortunately without him in it, its location the last place his children had pinged in the scanners.
The only audio they managed to recover from the device was "---Control Act, Article 1, Subse---Under Arrest---Questioning... And experimenting lots---"
Oracle had finally found the 'Anti-Ecto Acts', formally known as the Federal Anti-Ecto Control Act hidden along laws against the privatization of new green energy sources; Anything that was made off of or produced this so called 'ectoplasm' was to be handed over to the federal government's Ghost Investigation Ward for imprisonment, experimentation and finally termination.
"What the hell even is ectoplasm?"
"Its the source of all ghosts" Zatanna spoke up, repulsion clear as she read and reread the acts words, "Their body and souls are made up of the energy much like atoms make up all things in the physical world. The energy of the dead"
"According to these documents" Red Robin pulled up a research paper around two decades old from some students of the University of Wisconsin, "Ectoentities or ghosts are unfeeling, nonsentient echoes of their formerly living selves. They'd even theorized a means to access their home dimension they call the Ghost Zone"
"Ghost are made of bloody emotions" Constantine rolled his eyes "What kind of idiot would think otherwise? And don't get me started on a 'home dimension'--unless?"
"John, you don't think?"
"I sure as bloody hell hope not"
"The Infinite Realms!?"
Which only proved the situation more dire; a potential for a dimension that glued the multiverse and their afterlives, whose beings all had potential of rivaling the strength of a Super when provoked, their noted territorial nature making that a given if a portal happened upon them.
They were on a ticking time bomb to rescue their fellow heroes but they didn't even know where to start. Luckily they weren't the Justice League for nothing---
Potential locations scouted, teams made and buddy systems enacted for those potentially targeted.
Batman and his team headed to Amity Park to check on the three researchers of those papers-- Madeline Walker, Jack Fenton and Vladimir Masters. Background search revealed that Madeline and Jack had gotten married and had two children Jasmine and Daniel.
It wasn't until they crossed the town border in the dead of the night that their systems pinged the Fenton children were reported as runaways-- and not just them. The local high school had shut down as children were reported missing or also runaways from their parents. Even the faculty and some parents had begun to disappear.
Those that remained were kept under strict curfew by marshal law-- the GIW had the town under their control.
Just what exactly had they stumbled upon? Could their comrades be hidden somewhere in this small midwestern town?
Their theories were proven right the following night when tapping into their communication line about the 'aggressive subject G-02' and how 'it' had managed to break some arms when it had been relocated to the Fenton's personal lab. The 'unfortunate' Agent H who'd tried to yank it by its black and white contaminated hair had gotten his nose broken for it.
It was scheduled for biopsy tonight.
Batman couldn't help but taste the bile make his way up fearing/knowing who G-02 was.
His Team was right behind him in the change of plans as they made their way across town as covertly as they could; it seemed as though after finding out about G-02 (it couldn't be him, he couldn't put a name to him lest he let his fear override everything) Batman pinged on more and more of their ghost detectors.
Disabling was taking too long, loathe he admit, as they devolved to destroying as discreetly as they could.
Finally they could see the garish neon of the FentonWorks logo, the steps and door to the house were covered in ectoplasm and another familiar substance-- handmarks, clawmarks, clear signs of resistance could be made out.
And then Fentonworks went up in a flame and red and green.
Batman couldn't keep in his desperate cry. Not again! Please not again...
PRODIGAL SON IS MY FAVOURITE SHOW EVER!!!!!! it got cancelled after the s2 finale and oh my god it's SO GOOD!!!! it follows malcolm bright, a profiler who has gotten into the profession after calling the cops on his father, martin whitly aka The Surgeon, at the age of ten after discovering his father killed (at least) 23 people
a lot of the show focuses on the similarities and differences between bright and martin, specifically from bright's obscured pov where his relationship with his father is detrimental to himself and others (though largely himself)
it's SUCH a good show and my zoey and mira and i are finally finishing season 2!!! i introduced them to it forever ago and then we got crazy busy but i'm SO EXCITED TO SHOW THEM THAT NIGHTMARE CLIFFHANGER!!!!!!!!
i've written a bit for the fandom WAYYYY back when and i've been idly writing a little more for it just to get myself to write like . anything since i've had crazy writer's block for a while now </3
bright is also my pfp over on ao3! if you ever were wondering who that guy was that WAS in fact malcolm bright! he's literally me i love him SO bad [NOT A GOOD THING]
i am like . insane over brightwell (malcolm bright x dani powell, dani is a detective he works with!) and gil jessica (gil arroyo x jessica whitly, gil is the cop who arrested martin after bright called and is his surrogate father-mentor figure, jessica is bright's mother! gil and jessica have an incredibly complex history together and gil is so in love with her it makes me sick)
Final thought for the day and then I'll leave you alone, promise! When Ray's father talks to him about consquences they're all financial or reputational - nothing to do with right/wrong, risking ppl's lives (or even Ray's own life), etc. Sand is the only one who continuously brings that up. And I've seen a few ppl hope Sand is responsible for calling the police on Ray and while I entirely agree he needs to be held to account and face some consequences for a whole variety of behaviours, I'm a little leery of jailtime being the only answer if the Thai prison system is anything like the UK's (or most other place's), because you can guarantee if someone with an addiction and mental health problems goes into the prison system they will come out ten times worse...and that's if they survive to come out at all.
Yes to all of this! Ray's dad is very much motivated by external consequences like money and reputation, and I think they were very intentional about the dialogue in the hospital scene, because Ray's dad's dialogue is so unlike Sand's. Yet another example of why, at least to me, Sand supersedes Mew: he brings up morals, but he doesn't act superior about them. Mew rips on Ray for his addictive issues, scoffing and shaking his head about how "wrong" Ray is for doing them, but Sand doesn't take the "moralistic superior" approach. He takes the "I know it's hard, but I care about you and want you to realize you have a problem."
I'm also very curious to know what's going down at the party in Ep8...if Ray's dad really wanted to orchestrate something to teach Ray a lesson, would going straight for legal action be the best approach? Especially when, as someone who seems relatively concerned with public perception as you say, Ray being caught with drugs would not look good for him.
Maybe Sand calls the cops, or maybe someone else does? Maybe Top does? That would make sense to me since Top is angry at Ray for messing up his relationship with Mew, and we know that Top wants to get Mew as far away from Ray as possible. Plus in the preview they say that Ray is the one with drugs, so the only person (we can infer) it will blow back on is Ray.
