#basically? danny decides to actually be a villain. in metropolis. and he's pretty much unstoppable.
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racke7 · 10 months ago
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I've seen a few versions of this being "righteous rants", and I-... Hmm... What if we go a little bit further?
Danny knows that if the Justice League had ever gotten involved with the Amity Park situation? It would've been a disaster. They would've sent someone, they would've gotten overshadowed, and the town would've pretty much been razed to the ground.
Like, he would've still appreciated if they'd like... checked in or something? Or at least sent a message to the people of Amity Park about why they were staying the hell away.
But no, they got nothing. Radio-fucking-silence.
Danny isn't going to call the Justice League a bunch of dickheads, because they do seem to be doing good stuff outside of Amity Park. But it's very much a grudging kind of acknowledgment.
Then one of those fuckers tosses his car at one of their villains.
Did the guy need an improvised weapon? Maybe? Could he have used the light-pole right next to it? Absolutely. It would've even had better balance for if 'Superboy' wanted to continue wailing away at him with it.
It would've been a huge chunk of steel that he could've used to keep hitting the villain. But no. No, he had to use Danny's fucking car to throw at the villain.
And then he fucking misses the shot.
So, not only has he destroyed Danny's car for no fucking reason, he's also basically just chucked it through a building also for no fucking reason.
That's the kind of collateral-damage that would've seen Amity Park bring out torches and pitchfork and chase Phantom through the damn streets.
And here? Here it's just another fucking Tuesday.
Danny is-... Danny is just done with it.
No, not in the sense of a shrug and a 'what can you do'-attitude. No, Danny is done with accepting that this is okay. Because it isn't okay. And Danny is going to shove that down these fucker's throats as if it was fucking barbed wire.
This? This is the start of Danny's Villain-Arc. And he's going to make everyone responsible for it suffer.
(At least until Jazz cottons onto what he's doing and sits him down for a long talk about 'appropriate levels of retaliation', but that's probably still months away at this point. And the Justice League will rue the fucking day they crossed him.)
Short DPXDC Prompts #972
Danny is just trying to keep a stable job and pay rent in Metropolis. When Superboy takes his shitty old car and throws it at Parasite and misses. Something in Danny’s mind cracks. His wall of rage and restraint crumbles. He has words to say to Superboy for throwing his fucking car.
#basically? danny decides to actually be a villain. in metropolis. and he's pretty much unstoppable.#superman can't punch him but danny can punch him back. punch him and make it HURT.#and he doesn't really care about ''committing crimes'' as a general rule. but he lives in metropolis. he knows these assholes.#he knows which auto-repair shop is basically just scamming people. and he has no reason NOT to ruin their lives.#so now everyone in metropolis is going ''yeah. phantom is a menace with a grudge against superman. BUT-''#bcs they know exactly why danny's targets deserved to be targeted. and even if it's illegal it's nice to see them suffer.#danny doesn't care about ''long-term fixes'' (that requires legal intervention and he's not responsible for that)#danny only wants to make everyone who's ever annoyed him SUFFER for it. neighbor vacuuming at 3am? vengeance.#train that's constantly JUST A LITTLE BIT delayed? just enough that nobody at work will accept that as an excuse? vengeance.#he's an absolute menace and a lot of people are lowkey terrified of him. but he's also so fucking cathartic for the regular folks.#also also. if dani finds out before jazz does? he now has a side-kick. who is just as strong and a lot more cheerful in her menace.#danny has a deranged grin on his face. a vicious kind of gleeful anger that's SO relatable to anyone who's ever been annoyed.#dani has a bright grin on her face and seemingly not a mean bone in her body. but she's also childishly destructive.#danny is in it for the vengeance. dani is in it for the ''fun''. nobody knows if she's being corrupted or is just inherently Evil.#danny phantom#dc comics#stories#my writing#laughing
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