#even with a capable tech wizard like Tucker

[ladydisasterinthemaking]

Not my circus, not my monkeys.

Danny couldn’t believe it. He graduated high school with better grades than he imagined. Everything was also falling into place. His parents had accepted him as a halfa, and nothing bad has happened for almost a year now.

Well, he graduated, yes, but his grades weren’t on his sister’s level. Still, it was something he was proud of. Between making sure that Amity Park is safe from ghosts, going to Clockwork every now and then, and making sure he doesn’t fail at any of his classes, the road to a diploma was a hard one. (Although for some reason, the number of ghost attacks had gradually decreased until his usual rogues stopped attacking. They still visit Amity Park, but only to talk, hang out, or spar with him. It was strange at first, but he eventually got used to it.)

And now, in a few weeks, he is officially moving to Metropolis for college to become an engineer. It wasn’t what his younger self wanted, what with wanting to be an astronaut (not that he could be one, after what happened to him in the lab), but it was something more than what he thought he could ever accomplish.

(The deal-breaker was his parent's promise to protect Amity Park. He would have stayed and enrolled at Amity Community College, but his parents told him to live his life to the fullest.)

To celebrate their milestones together, Danny, Sam, and Tucker, together with Jazz as their chaperone for the summer, have decided to go wander around Metropolis and its neighboring cities as 'tourists' (Tucker and Sam had decided to go to Metropolis University, too, with the former studying Computer Science while the latter would take Journalism), partly because they will spend the rest of their college years in the city, and partly because compared to the other cities, Metropolis was safer because of Superman.

That means they can go anywhere and not fight.

'Not my circus, not my monkeys', as the saying goes.

Then Lex Luthor and Superman decided to duke it out in front of the Daily Planet, while the four of them were caught in a bank robbery.

The large LED TV inside the bank showcased the man of steel fighting the billionaire genius as the robbers scare everyone into submission with their guns.

The four of them looked at the LED TV, then at the robbers, and came to a decision.

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Superman was in the middle of fighting Luthor when he heard the cries of various civilians, and a couple of criminals demanding a bank to let them in their vaults.

Then he heard gunshots.

Fearing for the worst, he quickly defeated Lex, told the cops to ship him back to prison, and flew to the bank, just to see a floating white-haired meta and a teenage girl conjuring plants tying up and freezing the robbers. In the corner was another boy typing on a PDA, and a red-headed girl comforting the other people in the bank.

The four people in question froze upon noticing Superman.

Two large vines immediately snatched the redhead and the other boy, while the white-haired meta phased them down the bank's floor.

So much for the saying, 'Not my circus, not my monkeys'. 

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(This is terribly written. I haven’t done my research. Sorry for the quality of this short fic.)

[monotype-on-phantom]

Bless Sam, Tucker, and Jazz and their pure and beautiful souls.

We all talk about how hard Danny's got it. So much has been stolen from him because of these powers he never asked for, and so many people hate him for it.

But he has thankfully been blessed with such an amazing support system.

Sam and Tucker are a terrifying duo on their own.

Sam's filthy stinking rich and doesn't seem to have any limits put on how much she can spend. She can have emergency deliveries brought straight to her in the middle of the night. She can tip the pizza delivery guy a 10. And that's just what she can do with her cash. She's also brilliant, adaptable, and scary influential. She wore down the school board and got them to change the school menu to freaking topsoil without any warning. She managed to chew out government officials. She's quick thinking and can formulate brilliant plans on the spot. Sam never loses, even if people sometimes wish she would.

Tucker is a technological genius. He's capable of hacking government tech, private security tech, Vald's fancy shmancy tech designed by him personally, and a freaking ghost robot suit powered by a literal technology wizard from 10 years in the future. All with nothing but a handheld computer. On top of that, he's an entrepreneur and an inventor. He's started multiple somewhat successful businesses, and invented seemingly silly things that ended up helping to save lives (such as an anti-ghost bug repellent.)

These two are 14 and they don't have superpowers, but they are still capable of so much. There are battles Danny couldn't have won without them. There are times when they're the ones who saved him. Tucker literally threw himself between a blade and Danny. Sam just about died falling off a train while trying to save Danny from a mind-controlling villain. They've broken out of homes and school, jumped onto moving trains, flown across states, faced monsters and pain to save him, even though they're just normal kids. And they've always succeeded. Danny might be the superhero, but if he's in danger, these two kids can and will destroy a person.

And if you manage to slip past Sam and Tucker's radar, I pray you're ready to face the wrath of Jasmine Fenton. The genius girl who was the only one to find out Danny's secret on her own, as well as the only one to catch Dan when he came from the future. She brilliantly defended Danny from behind the scenes for at least half a season, protecting his secret from everyone, including herself.

This girl is one of the most brilliant in the nation. She has a passion for psychology, and enough skill with it to match friggin Spectra in terms of mental influence. And even though she's not the best with weapons, if someone tries to touch her brother, she will destroy them with whatever she can get her hands on, whether that be something as simple as a broom or as dangerous as the ecto-skeleton. She freaking kung-fued a mutant turkey at like 6 or 7 to protect her baby brother. It doesn't matter who you are, even her own parents. You do not wanna mess with Jazz.

So yeah, Danny's just a kid who's dealing with way more crap than he deserves, but thankfully he has an small army of other kids who are scary and powerful and would murder for him.