#john is conmanning and dectective-ing

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Danny had a pounding headache when he woke up, but what was from the suit, what was from power overuse and what was from (hopefully) getting his city back in the right dimension was up in the air.

He ducked from the light.

“Jazz, five more minutes.”

“Who’s Jazz?” Constantine opened with. This is an unknown on multiple levels, and a kid.

“Hardy har-har Amorpho,” Danny rubbed his forehead again. Probably low on ecto… great. “What’s up with the trenchcoat? I know you said you were planning to make your own characters and all instead of yoinking my life and everyone else’s, but normally i get the exposition dump in advance.”

John frowned. A ‘Jazz’ and ‘Amorpho’ were his only two clues into the summonee. Looks like a kid and has a pulse… possible Dr. Fate situation or even possession.

“Had it for ages, mate. Now, i tell you my name, you give me yours.”

The kid tolled his eyes. “Dude, you stole my name enough times to know it.”

John noted that Amorpho and the being didn’t have the best relationship.

“Humor me; John Constantine.”

The kid has no reaction.

“Danny, Fenton and Phantom.”

Good. He can do a lot with a name, and so can the others.

“Look, i got Amity out of the Zone, right?”

Just had to keep the bugger talking. Amity—person, group, or place? And Zone—which one, and what did it refer to.

“Dunno mate, didja?”

Danny moved to glare at him. Too much like a kid at the end of their rope.

“Not funny. I know i’m not in the Keep, and that we’re not in the Zone. I can taste that much”

Interesting skill set.

“But what i don’t know is was everyone able to make it out. They’re,” the kid took a deep breath. “its not going to be another Mattingly situation, right? And if it is, it hasn’t kicked in yet since its only been two days and we still have low ecto-contaminated water with the sheilds up. So, so we can still get everyone home through the portal and—“

John didn’t like the sounds of this. Chances of Amity being a place—city, town or something bigger were skyrocketing. And they’d been taken to some ‘Zone’ and had a water contamination issue since entering the Zone.

He glanced at the camera while the kid spiraled.

“And fruitloop closed the sarcophagus so Pariah should be asleep again and, crap. I can’t get to the ecto de-jecto with the shields up… please tell ke that talk about the natural portal detection wasn’t a lie. I think i need to see Frostbite and the yeti again. Everything’s too slow and spinny.”

John forced himself to keep his cool. The kid needs medical attention, and wants to see someone called Frostbite, likely an ally of or an actual Yeti.

Said kid also just defeated Pariah Dark very recently, if his word was to be believed.

The kid is also not 100% human and john couldn’t ID if it was a consenting possession or something else. No clue what ecto-dejecto is—maybe like insulin or could be drugs. Worry pending on that depending on the kid’s moral alignment.

“How long have you been a ghost again?”

“Half ghost asshole,” the kid growled out. John was fairly certain that was BS. “life got 50/50 custody with death. You and everyone else forced me to get tested since the last guy turned out to be a revenant ghost hybrid and got the Zone’s hopes up for nothing.”

So the half alive thing was important to this Zone. And him being both alive and dead in a perfect split could align him as a lord of balance candidate or a baby lord of balance.

Not the best in either case power wise if they piss the kid off.

“Really mate? Dodging a question.”

“A, a little over a year, i think?” The mid rubbed his forehead again. “Depends if we go by death or when my powers started to kick in or after i could go ghost. Frostbite said being made rather than born is what makes it tricky on timelines.”

Recent dead, shit. John knew just how varied and volatile freshly dead can be. Recent dead, possible lord of balance. Very bad combination.

“sounds like you still don’t have the hang of it.”

A bit more information for the others to get something should work.

“Shut up—you sucked as my impersonator. Sydney at least managed to handle school when he tried to take over my life, and didn’t get my parents to hunt me harder as Phantom for months after.”

And now John knows the kids afterlife isn’t the best if his parents are actively hunting his ghost. Most call it reuniting if its welcome. Hunting is used by most ghosts who are being targeted violently or for exorcism.

The fact the kid was still being nice thinking he was Amorpho would blow up in his face if he didnt get out fast.

“sheesh, not like i caused the world to end mate. Why don’t i check up on Amity and you stay here and rest? Looks like you need it.”

“Fucking ecto-deficiency,” the kid grumbled. “Next asshole that releases Pariah, sic it on a dimension that has someone besides me protecting it.”

Ecto dejecto is medical then. Shit.

“C’mon mate, not like you were alone.”

He hoped.

“Only one not able to go in the shield, and the rest of you guys hand the skeleton army to handle. Vlad was only there to steal the crown—fuck is Dani okay? I know we stabilized her, bus she could have been pulled in with the identical ecto-signature… if you see Wulf, can you have him portal to her and check she’s good or if she needs de-jecto too?”

John hummed in agreement, noting Danny hadn’t looked at him too closely. So the cult was working during a battle for the crown, and a baby ghost with a medical condition took out Pariah Dark to save what sounds like his haunt or territory on the living side. Shows care towards what sounds like another 50/50 or ghost with a similar medical condition, has beef with a ‘fruitloop’ (possibly the Vlad seeking the crown), a friend who can portal and no news on who Jazz is.

Also a possible lord of balance.

They just need to send the mid back and hope he doesn’t remember the trip here. Given the exhaustion and signs of some sort of headache, unlikely he will. All in all, better to release than handle what sounds like another United Zone (whatever zone he was working with).

Danny Phantom just defeated Pariah Dark. Like he is still in that suit his father made in Pariahs keep. He doesn't know the ghost rules. It hasn't even been a year since he died and became a halfa, so no one has explained to him that if you defeat the king you become the king. In another dimension John Constantine is panicking because because the JL failed to stop a cult from completing the summoning ceremony that will summon the ghost king. They are all expecting Pariah Dark, but what they get instead is a ghost child. The summoning pulled him out of the suit that Jack made.

Danny looks around, confused with his vision blurring exhausted from fighting Pariah Dark. "Where am I?" Danny asks. Danny has no idea that he now has a floating crown above his head. He finally passes out right in front of the JL, and he transforms back into Danny Fenton.

The JL decides to take Danny to the watchtower in space and put him in a cell until he wakes up. None of them trust Danny, especially not John Constantine. When Danny wakes up, he is very confused, and sitting right outside his cell is John Constantine.

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@jedipirateking thought you might like it , bit unsure about the ending tho

Danny Phantom just defeated Pariah Dark. Like he is still in that suit his father made in Pariahs keep. He doesn't know the ghost rules. It hasn't even been a year since he died and became a halfa, so no one has explained to him that if you defeat the king you become the king. In another dimension John Constantine is panicking because because the JL failed to stop a cult from completing the summoning ceremony that will summon the ghost king. They are all expecting Pariah Dark, but what they get instead is a ghost child. The summoning pulled him out of the suit that Jack made.

Danny looks around, confused with his vision blurring exhausted from fighting Pariah Dark. "Where am I?" Danny asks. Danny has no idea that he now has a floating crown above his head. He finally passes out right in front of the JL, and he transforms back into Danny Fenton.

The JL decides to take Danny to the watchtower in space and put him in a cell until he wakes up. None of them trust Danny, especially not John Constantine. When Danny wakes up, he is very confused, and sitting right outside his cell is John Constantine.