Bruce watched in amusement as the new hero, Ghost, made fun of Superman. That was until John Constantine came into the room and stared at the hero with wide eyes. He bowed and everyone was thrown off.
John Constantine was a bastard and everyone knew it, he tricked God Himself and made enemies with demons daily, he never showed anyone respect. So why was he being respectful to this random new hero he never met?
“King Phantom. I’ve been searching for you, it’s an honor.” John said and everyone looked between the confused teenager and mage.
“You must have me confused, my name is Ghost and I’m not a King.” He replied warily.
“Ah, they must have done something.” John said before hitting Ghost with a spell.
Ghost gasped and looked frantically at John.
“How bad is it?” He asked hurriedly and with panic.
“They would have slaughtered everyone tomorrow if you weren’t found today. They don’t care about your rules if the King is missing. I held them off for as long as I could but I couldn’t buy much time. You have been gone for 6 months.” John told him and everyone was on alert immediately. “Go, Danny, before it is too late.”
Ghost, no Danny, nodded before opening a portal. He turned around.
“You will be rewarded and I thank you. I truly love these people and would die against to protect them but my kingdom is first. I ask you to disband the GIW of the United States government, they are who took me and sold me off, they are who hurt my people. The Observants will want to speak to you, I will hold them off.” He left and everyone yelled questions at John.
“SHUT UP!” He snapped, more serious than anytime they had seen him before.
“Constantine. What was that?” Bruce demanded, wearing his most menacing glare and growl.
“No Bats, you don’t get to question me right now. I need everything that you have on him. Mission reports, how you found him, everything. If you excuse me I’m going to shut down a government organization.” John turned around and left in a hurry before anymore questions could be asked.
Two days later the news showed that an unknown man single handed took down a fake government organization that was illegally experimenting on ghosts and torturing them. John came back and read through every single file they had and sighed.
“Congratulations. I prevented the end of the universe.” He said lazily.
“Explain.” Bruce demanded.
Zatanna interrupted before John could reply. Her face was pale. “That was Danny Phantom.” She whispered in disbelief.
John only nodded and she fell onto a chair. She looked up at him with panic, ignoring everyone.
“Tell me. Don’t lie. How close were we?” She asked, completely serious.
“5 hours. If I didn’t find him in 5 hours every person on every planet would be slaughtered. They would not be merciful, they would slowly kill us until he was found, and they would not stop there. It would be 10 times worse than anything you can possibly imagine and no one but him could stop them. You were good to him, cared, no harm should come to any of you. I can’t say the same about CADMUS and the GIW.”
“Why didn’t he go back?” She asked. “You said he cares, why would he risk it?”
“His memories were erased, I gave them back but he didn’t know anything except for the last six months, possibly even less.”
“How did you get them to back off for so long?”
“I blackmailed God once, you know.”
“Yes, but every being is more powerful than him, the weakest is possible 3 times as powerful.”
“They respect Him, even if barely, but they do. So they, in turn, respect me. They know of my reputation and accomplishments, know I can somehow get out of anything, they let me have a chance to find him before they released them onto the universe.”
Zatanna thought about it for a couple seconds before nodding and slumping back into the chair.
A neon green sticky note appeared on John’s lap.
‘Thank you for returning our King. He needs guidance in your realm and you will now be considered his father, uncle to the public. Do not tell the mortals anything else.
He looked to Zatanna. “Are you mortal?”
“No, technically not.” She responded and he wordlessly passed her the note. “John, I can’t read this. It’s in ghost speak and I have not died.”
“I am the new father/uncle to Danny Phantom. We can’t tell the mortals anything else.” John said and Zatanna chuckled.
“Does this mean Spooky can’t adopt Danny?” Flash asked and Bruce glared at him.
“Not unless he wants to be Ended.” Zatanna replied with amusement and a smile.
This was going to be interesting.
