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thenewgirl76 · 2 months

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I'll Make You Believe

While the whole "asking a ghost how they died is the worst taboo ever, so don't do it or you'll be in a world of hurt" headcanon is always fun to implement to either create temporary conflict or simply move the story along, I think it'd work just as well on both ends if it was only a minor offense.

Like if you were to ask a once living ecto being how they died the most negative response you'd get would either be some variation of "None of your business puny mortal" or an explanation using the most vividly graphic, stomach turning details as an act of petty revenge as well as insurance you never ask again.

So what could possibly be a way more serious, far more dangerous no-no when it comes to ghosts instead? Well, how about stating ghosts don't exist/there's no such things as ghosts? The reason why being you're invalidating the trauma they've experienced in their last moments.

Makes no difference whether you were aware of this or not. If they find out or worse, it's said to their face? You better hope they'll settle for beating you black-and-blue. Because the alternative is becoming a ghost yourself by the time they're done with you.

Now in dpxyj fics when Danny interacts with Wally and the whole "ghost are/aren't real" argument between them comes into play it's usually depicted as a trivial disagreement. But what if you were to make it more angsty by inserting this take on lack of ghostly etiquette?

Let's say after getting to know his teammates better Danny starts talking about his origins (in vague detail) and exploits, only to eventually be interrupted by Kid Flash declaring that he can't possibly be a ghost as they don't exist. And Robin, Aqualad, Miss Martian, and Superboy all become quite alarmed watching Danny go from easygoing to looking ready to beat Kid Flash to a pulp, as he's now fighting back his ghostly nature. To avoid giving in to the urge he abruptly leaves with a dismissive attitude, much to KF's confusion.

From there it spirals. KF, not realizing he's poking a hornets nest continuing to voice his skepticism whenever the opportunity comes up and each time Danny barely manages to keep it together. Until one day Danny in an explosive rage snatches up KF and in a tone colder than ice tells him he knows what he is, what he went through to reach that state, and that he has no need to justify any of it to him.

Then he leaves once more before he really loses it. Before going after him Miss Martian informs KF of how Danny opened his mind to her and that for his sake she hopes he never shares those memories of what he went through with him. Feeling bad now, KF tries to apologize once Danny returns. Which results in failure again and again since Danny keeps giving him the cold shoulder.

After having yet another apology disregarded KF, in mounting frustration blurts out that he wishes he understood what has Danny so convinced he's a ghost, unaware a certain wish twisting genie he was warned about had been invisibly lurking in the vicinity the instant Danny was elsewhere. Along with the rest of the regulars, as soon as KF's denials had spread to the Ghost Zone Desiree was on the warpath, intent on showing just how real ghosts truly were. By sheer spite and determination she beat everyone else to him, just in time to hear him say the forbidden word, presenting her with the perfect means of retribution.

With a "So you have wished it so shall it be" KF is magically transported to an underwater submarine, occupied by Black Manta. Unable to run as freely without potentially damaging the sub and causing it to flood, the fight upon his unexpected arrival is drawn out to the point KF starts to feel his hyper metabolism weakening him. It's when he's close to dying of starvation that one of the more incompetent goons sends him crashing into the stash of ectoplasm Manta had smuggled with the intent of using it to pollute the waters of Aquaman's Kingdom. The last thing KF sees before blacking out is Desiree looming over him with a smirk of satisfaction.

#dpxdc #danny phantom #young justice #danny fenton/phantom #wally west/kid flash #desiree #halfa wally west #new ghost do's and don'ts headcanon #denial of ghosts' existence is seen as crossing the line #even worst than calling them non sentient and non sapient #for ghosts it's the equivalent of an insensitive ignoramus telling a physically or mentally disabled person to stop faking #wow this just might be my longest post yet.#went on for way longer than i expected or wanted

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playedcrowd5610 · 2 years

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Resurrected? -Chapter 6

he team is on a routine mission when Phantom gets blasted by one of the goons wielding experimental tech. Unable to keep his ghost form intact he transforms back into his human form. Causing the rest of his teammates to think the beam had somehow brought him back to life!

The team starts to try to protect Danny and make sure he doesn’t die again, always checking around every corner for a possible threat. How long will he last?

Wattpad: Here. FF: Here. Ao3: Here.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6

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OH MY GOSH, GUYS, @2000dragonarmy made this amazing fanart of Conner and annoyed Danny.

I love it so much!<3 I almost fell off my chair when I saw it, It is so amazing thank you! You guys should check them out XD

Fanart <3

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The Mall, a place where teens hang out on a daily basis. They go shopping, hang out with their friends, and eat food at the food court. And also apparently a place where Danny needs to be shown the joys of the human world so he doesn't kill himself again, or something. Why the place of the peak of humanity is a mall Danny would have no idea.

Danny glances around at the team surrounding him as they walk towards the only mall in Happy Harbor. Conner had put him down a little after Danny's second escape attempt. He keeps carrying him around like a little kitten and it is getting on Danny's nerves.

And now it seems like they have made a protective barrier around him. Some on the sides, behind, and in front of him. Whether it was on purpose or not, it was getting really annoying.

He is not some child! Even if all the other ghosts call him that. Honestly, he is very responsible for his two-years-dead age. He has been able to fight some of the most powerful beings in the zone and won, on multiple occasions!

Others say he could probably beat Superman if he tried. But nooooooooo, his very fragile human body can keel over at any minute. For crying out loud half of this team is human! Or at the very least close to the fact. He rolled his eyes.

He just needs to figure something out. Maybe he could convince one of the ghosts to come over and 'kill' him or something. (not really, but they could make it look real enough). And he is sure there would be a bunch who would be happy to do it. But he doesn't want to traumatize his new friends and team by having him murdered in front of them.

He still doesn't even know if he could transform at this point. He is pretty sure he can, he could feel his core thrumming angrily in his chest at the prospect of being protected and not being the protector. But he still needs to check, just to be sure.

He still feels very weak after that blast, and it doesn't seem normal. Now he just needs to get away from his babysitters for one minute. That's if he could get past an entire SUPER HERO TEAM that is guarding him right now from stubbing his toe.

There was a blur next to him and an arm wrapped around his shoulders. "Come on stop moping around Phantom," Wally said.

"What am I supposed to do? I feel like you guys would get creeped out if I walked around with a bright smile on my face at this point." Danny raised an eyebrow at the speedster.

Artemis bumped his shoulder. "Come on, we are just going to hang out like we normally do, only this time it's at a mall instead of a cave."

"A very homey cave!" Megan butted in, a cheery smile on her face. "And I have only managed to convince Conner to come to the mall with me once before, so this is going to be great. And we can get you some new clothes too!"

Danny grimaced. "I'm wearing clothes already, why do I need new ones?"

"That's the same thing Conner always says." Megan pouted. "You only wore black and white before, and the clothes you are wearing don't match your eyes now. The red doesn't work."

Danny looked down at the clothes he was wearing, it was normal for his human form. His red and white T-shirt and his dark blue jeans. He raised his eyebrow up at the Martian. "But red's my favorite colour."

Robin perked up. "I thought you said it was blue?"

Danny shrugged. "It changes."

"Come on Phantom, Please just let me pick out oneeeee outfit. Only one, I promise." Megan pleaded. Danny looked at her eyes which was a mistake. How were they so big? Probably using a bit of shape-shifting or something. She probably learned the begging tactic from Wally asking for cookies.

"Fine, okay. Just one."

Wally leaned over to him clapping his hand on his shoulder. "Rest in peace man."

Danny grumbled. "That was supposed to be the plan."

Wally chuckled nervously and sped over to his best friend who was closer to the front. He wrapped his arm around Robin's shoulders. The redhead was taller than the acrobat so it was easy. He leaned down to Robin. "You think your old man would be open to adopting another kid who also has a death wish and wants to fight crime?" Danny tilted his head to the side at Wally's comment. He still had some of his enhanced hearing.

He didn't see what expression Robin made, but he kind of shrugged. "I doubt it, I think I was a one-time only thing. B's not much of a kid person. I would be very surprised to see him adopt another one."

"But he looks just like you. Black hair blue eyes."

Robin tilted his head up to Wally. "What would that have to do with anything?"

The speedster waved him off. "Ah fine. I'll figure something else out then. Maybe I can talk to uncle Bary." He put his hand on his chin.

"What? You trying to get him adopted or something?"

Wally threw his hand to the side. "Someone needs to take care of our baby."

Danny ran his hand down his face with a groan.

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Beta read by: BrokenBlueHeart

Head cannon, Danny Fenton's favorite colour is Red while Phantom's favorite colour is blue. They don't know why, it's just a slight personality difference.

Thank you all so much for all of your amazing comments on this story, you guys give me so much inspiration and I am always so overjoyed when I read your thoughts on this story! If there are any scenarios that you want to see in the future please comment them! I was stuck with some writer's block for this that's why it took so long to update. I love ya’ll :3

I also hope I didn't get anyone too out of character but we will see, I was kinda having an off time with Megan. But then again this is supposed to be a crack fic, So...

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shadow-pixelle · 6 months

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special challenge- each of these needs to be answered with a different fic

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Ooooohkay! Big ask. Let's see if I can do your little extra challenge too while I'm at it, I've probably got enough stuff.

Under a read more, because oh dear god this got long so quickly.

So for the portal; I'll go with 'something I haven't written yet', rather than haven't posted, because when it comes down to it I have no idea if I'll write something, but anything I've not posted I'll post eventually, so yeah.

The fic is called Run (Yourself) To Death, it's a Danny PhantomxDC crossover, it was one of the first things I came up with for this fandom, and is a solid 90% the fault of Clockwayswrite's A Broken Sort of Normal because that's what introduced me to the 'quick death' ship and I found it very very cute. Idea was that Wally West doesn't end up dead after the big twister thing from Young Justice (I don't remember enough about that show to give more details) and instead sort of... falls sideways, I guess? Into a natural portal to the Infinite Realms riiiiiight as he also fades into the Speedforce and kinda ends up in this very fucked up state of not-quite-Halfa but not dead but not alive either, no connection to the Speedforce, and a developing Ghost Core. The entire story would be focused on Danny finding him and trying to help him get back to his reality, which is really really hard, and takes several years, ending with them in a relationship and also Wally as a super liminal/basically a Halfa by the time they figure it out.

I'm not entirely sure if I'm calling it Run Yourself To Death, or just Run To Death, which is why the 'yourself' is in brackets.

Sunny cloud!; favourite piece of dialogue... ok, I've got a few WIPs ongoing at the moment. Normally I'd go with the one closest to being posted, buuuuuut that fic has no dialogue. So I'll go for the next one on that list, which is Strange Aeons, the Tumblr fic.

(I spent a solid like, half an hour looking through my various WIPs trying to choose a line, because I couldn't for the life of me decide on one that I liked enough.)

“Wait, so if you’re not- related, or whatever, to the Lazarus Pit, then what are you?”

I mostly like this one because of the cliffhanger-ness of it. It's not the last line of that segment, but it's pretty close to it.

For the thundercloud; something funny/cracky from your WIP. This is hilarious, because my WIP 1 isn't really funny- or well, it is, but more in the context of irony, and WIP 2 is. Uh. Not there yet. WIP 3 and WIP 4 both have some alright ones, so I'll take this one from Parhelion, because why not.

That scent was incredibly familiar. "Did you traffic me to yourself?" He asked, incredulity too strong for nervousness. "You haven't been trafficked." Wayne replied automatically, before stilling. "Excuse me?"

Tornado! Or as it appeared on my screen, cloud with a ghost tail. Sum up a WIP with a few fic tropes/AO3 tags. Uuuh ok. Let's use Ornithology for this one, because it's currently my main WIP. I'd sum this one up with Found Family, Cryptid Batfam, Gotham City Is Weird, Gotham City Rolls With Everything, and Wingfic as my main ones. I love this fic so much. It's nearly complete, too, which is a yay.

And finally, umbrella rain. Is there a fic concept you have that you'd like to just explain and share because you're not sure you'll ever write it... hmm. Ok this is a fun one for me, because usually if I have a fic concept, I intend to write it, no matter what? But I've definitely got something somewhere that's so old that I probably won't end up writing it just because I've got so much else to write...

digs into the box of WIPs and ideas

Ok let's pull out two fun ones that I have in this old as fuck list- specifically ones that I actually remember what the fuck that note means (looking at you, 'guitar riff bad life decisions (also AA)' like what the fuck does that mean Past Pix. What the hell is that.)

So one of them is labelled as 'Tarre Kamino aka fuck the SW timeline'. I mostly remember this one because I started writing this, and it is in fact the reason I have a Word document with my own Star Wars timeline in it, because I got so sick of trying to figure it out via the wikis that I made some guesses and made my own. I didn't write more than maybe a scene of it because it was all driving me mad, and also I couldn't figure out where to go with things, but the idea was that the Force Ghost of Tarre Vizsla is on Kamino fucking around and finding out, and basically doing his best to keep the clones safe in the face of gestures at common fanon Kamino stuff and also like, the amount of rage he's got at Jango Fett and the other Mandos on planet. Cool idea, could not figure out where to go with it aside from probably having him interact with Shaak Ti at some point, but I had a solid 10 years to get through to get there and was lost.

The second one is 'Kamino is v angery (4546B)', man I love my naming system for things, and this one had No Plot Just Vibes. Fans of Subnautica may recognise that little number-letter combo at the end, the idea was literally that Kamino had once been the planet 4546B from Subnautica. The only real idea I had to go from there involved the Leviathans, specifically the Sea Emperor, but I had no idea what I wanted to do with it outside of that.

Maybe I'll come back to them sometime.

looks up wow this is a long post, huh. Damn. Hope you enjoyed hearing all these rambles, and ta very much for the ask! It was fun to go digging through things for quotes and stuff.

#ask game #emoji ask game #fic writing #writing #strange aeons au #ornithology dc au #parhelion dc au #wips #my wips #long post beware #goddamn i had a lot more to say about this than i realised huh #fun stuff though

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ao3feed-birdflash · 10 months

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Ghost Bats

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/aL1JZYR

by Taxi_Cab_To_Slowtown

There are far more Halfas in the world than Danny knows, most of them are part of a very old family from Gotham. Most of them are also heroes, though they use their ghostly power less often to right than Danny does.

Or: AU where all the bats are Halfas

Words: 1743, Chapters: 1/8, Language: English

Series: Part 10 of DCU Multi-Chaptered Fics, Part 1 of Death Jokes and Other Forms of Entertainment (Halfa Batfam AU)

Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Danny Phantom

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Categories: Gen

Characters: Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth, Original Ghost Character(s) (Danny Phantom), Gotham City, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Roy Harper, Wally West, Tim Drake, Bernard Dowd, Kon-El | Conner Kent, Damian Wayne, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Duke Thomas, Danny Fenton, Danielle "Dani" Phantom

Relationships: Batfamily Members & Bruce Wayne, Gotham City & Bruce Wayne, Batfamily Members & Danny Fenton, Dick Grayson/Wally West, Roy Harper/Jason Todd, Bernard Dowd/Tim Drake/Kon-El | Conner Kent

Additional Tags: Halfa | Half-Ghosts (Danny Phantom), Halfa | Half-Ghost Tim Drake (Danny Phantom), Halfa | Half-Ghost Jason Todd (Danny Phantom), Halfa | Half-Ghost Danny Fenton, Halfa | Half-Ghost Bruce Wayne (Danny Phantom), Halfa | Hal-Ghost Dick Grayson (Danny Phantom), Halfa | Half-Ghost Damian Wayne, Halfa | Half-Ghost Roy Harper, Halfa | Half-Ghost Stephanie Brown, Halfa | Half-Ghost Cassandra Cain, Halfa | Half-Ghost Duke Thomas, Gotham City is a Ghost, tags are escaping me at the moment, Lazarus Pit (DCU), Lazarus Pit Side Effects (DCU), Danny Fenton is a Batfamily Member, Roy Harper is a Batfamily Member, no beta we die like the Batfamily ;)

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/aL1JZYR

#dick grayson #robin #nightwing #wally west #kid flash #flash #birdflash #dickwally

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ao3feed-brucewayne · 5 months

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"Kidnapped" by A Teenager

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/ELZs63S by LavenderAuthor It was supposed to be a simple outing for the various members of the Wayne Family— legality notwithstanding —but then a simple message was sent in the group chat by Jason upon his disappearance's notice: "Going to Doctor's. Might be back by dinner" Was it sudden? Yes, given he had come to the mall with them, but they tried not to worry. This was Jason, after all. The man probably had "crime lord" business to handle that allowed him an easy out of socializing. It only became worrying when dinner went by and he was seen walking into a camera's blindside at the mall with a teen but not exiting the mall. Words: 16525, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 2 of DC Crossovers Fandoms: Danny Phantom, Batman - All Media Types, Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (Webcomic) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen Characters: Danny Fenton, Jason Todd, Frostbite (Danny Phantom), Dick Grayson, Bruce Wayne, Wally West, Tim Drake, Damian Wayne, Stephanie Brown, Cassandra Cain, Duke Thomas Relationships: Danny Fenton & Jason Todd, Batfamily Members & Danny Fenton, Batfamily Members & Jason Todd, Batfamily Members & Batfamily Members (DCU), Danny Fenton & Frostbite Additional Tags: Minor Danny Fenton/Tucker Foley/Sam Manson, Minor Dick Grayson/Wally West, Lazarus Pits are Ectoplasm (Danny Phantom and DCU), Lazarus Pit Side Effects (DCU), Lazarus Pit Mad Jason Todd, Jason Todd Has PTSD, Jason Todd Has Issues, Jason Todd Has Mental Health Issues, Jason Todd-centric, POV Jason Todd, POV Danny Fenton, POV Dick Grayson, POV Alternating, Ghost King Danny Fenton, Halfa | Half-Ghost Jason Todd (Danny Phantom), Ecto-Contaminated | Liminal Jason Todd (Danny Phantom), Misunderstandings, Danny Fenton is a Little Shit, Duke Thomas is a Batfamily Member, Comfort/Angst, Implied/Referenced Character Death, they both died, and talk about it, Protective Danny Fenton, BAMF Danny Fenton, Mentioned Portal Accident, mentioned torture, Tags May Change, Tags Are Hard read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/ELZs63S

#IFTTT #bruce wayne #batman #the caped crusader #the dark knight #dcu #ao3 #ao3feed

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snaileer · 3 years

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YJ/DP Crossover 1

So Danny escapes the GIW, but all of the torture has left him with large memory gaps. Including forgetting the fact that he’s only half-dead.They also gave him corrupted/impure ectoplasm as an experiment, in a normal ghost it would inhibit manipulating their ectoplasm, in him, it stops him from manipulating his ectoplasm into his human form. This, combined with being in ghost form for so long, he’s stuck as a ghost.

Somehow, he meets/sees the young justice team and decides he likes them.

So he follows after them and haunts them.

At first it’s small things, a moved object or a tv turned on.

Then he follows them on a mission. His obsession kicks in and he protects one of them from something. It makes him remember he was a hero as a ghost.

So he sticks around, playing bigger and bigger pranks on them.

It starts to turn the team against each other cuz they all blame each other for it.

They’re all yelling at each other in the common room when they hear laughter.

At first, they tell Robin to cut it out but it’s not him.

More laughter echoes through the cave, and the team members arm themselves. They gather into a tight circle, back to back.

“Who’s there!”

Robin discreetly sends a distress beacon to Batman. One word: Intruder.

“Show yourself!”

More laughter, mixed in with the echos,

“BOO!” Something appears and shouts into Robins face.

He leaps back, brandishing a batarang at the... boy?

The boy in question just rocked back in the air, laughing. He points at Robin, “you should’ve seen your face!!”

He seems to ignore or not notice the several weapons pointed at him.

“Who are you!? How did you get in here!?”

The boy sobered instantly, “Who am I? Who am I!?” His voice grew louder as his eyes glowed and he rose higher off the ground, his -glowing?- white hair whipping in an imaginary wind, “I am the Spectral Spectator! The preternatural prankster! I am... Phantom!” His words boomed across room from where he looked down on them. Then suddenly he dropped back down right in front of them, “sup guys, the names Phantom, I’m a ghost and I’ve been pranking you for the last 3 months.” He laughed again.

“That was you?!”they shouted incredulously.

“Of course! What? I thought we bonded when I painted all your masks pink. Or did you think that just happened naturally?” He flipped upside down in the air with that stupid smile still on his face.

Batman enters at some point. And there’s a big macho standoff, but Phantom just keeps laughing and disappearing randomly.

Fighting villain: “I’m dead and I still manage to be a better person than you!”

Panic attack presents not as hyperventilating but as flickering in and out of existence. Ghosts don’t need to breath, but Intangibility and invisibility is natural for ghosts, as well as a danger response. Thus why Danny had to learn to stop falling through floors and dropping stuff. It requires the barest minimum of focus to stay tangible/visible but that goes out the window in panic.

Sometimes Robin will hack into something spectacularly hard, and Phantom will reflexively say, “good one Tucker!,” or sometimes, “nice job, Tuck!” They assume Tuck and Tucker are the same person, but no one on the team is really sure, none of them know a Tucker. And when asked about it, neither does Phantom. He just looks confused for a second and then moves on like they’d said nothing at all.

Unbeknownst to everyone but himself and Batman, Robin keeps a record of these instances. Along with a collection of times Phantom’s started an enthusiastic story about a ‘Jazz’, or even occasionally his parents, before suddenly losing his focus and moving on.

There was also a time Phantom had followed Meghan to school and seen some goth kid in the hallway, he’d started to yell something starting with S, then vanished.

They didn’t see him for a few days that time.

And when he came back, he wasn’t… completely.. there.

That’s something else the team’s learned about Phantom’s habits.

Sometimes they’ll find him just floating around the cave, vaguely fading from room to room, or pacing high in the air above the main room.

Meghan tried to reach him once like that, early in their friendship, her hand went right through him, like he wasn’t there at all.

Occasionally, and only at its worst, he’ll mutter something under his breath.

“I wasn’t fast enough.”

“I shouldn’t have cheated.”

“I can’t be late for school, not again.”

“I want to be an astronaut when I’m older.”

It reminds them all what Phantom really is. Just a dead kid. A dead civilian kid at that. A failure of what they’re trying to protect.

And it’s because of this that Robin keeps a record of everything Phantom says.

Because maybe, if they write everything down, they’ll be able to find a pattern, maybe, if they write everything down, they’ll be able to find who Phantom was, maybe they’ll be able to find what killed him. Maybe they can help him move on.

Maybe.

Part 2: https://snaileer.tumblr.com/post/667835604019593216/yjdp-crossover-part-2

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itsybitsybatsyspider · 6 years

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Halfas and Heroes PI

Summary: during a recon mission at a new Cadmus facility in Amity Park, Dick gets into an accident. Only to find out later he has ghost-like powers. And the only person who can help a half-ghost, is another half-ghost.

Notes: requested by @letsdannyphandom. This is a crossover between Young Justice and Danny Phantom. Other notes at the end of this chapter.

Words: 3k

Warning(s): violence and a little bit of gore.

It was a recon mission. That was all it was. A normal recon mission that would have ended with the team running away from an explosion or something with a few cuts and bruises to show.

until it suddenly wasn’t.

If Robin, Dick, knew what was going to happen later that day, on that mission, he wondered to himself if he would’ve still taken it. It had begun simple enough, with Batman coming to Mount Justice and giving the team a mission...

“It will be strictly recon. No interaction. Get in, get out, and report back as soon as possible. You will be heading into a new Cadmus facility that just opened up. And with the previous history with Cadmus, you will be going in and finding out everything you can about it. Is that understood?” Batman’s gravelly voice echoed throughout the mountain.

“Yeah, yeah, so just the normal stuff then?” Kid Flash snarked.

Batman glared at the young speedster, who gulped. He still could never get used to the Bat-glare.

“Yes. We understand.” Kaldur said, sending a look to Kid. “Do we know what they are researching?”

“More clones?” Robin asked.

“Strangely, no.” Batman said as he pulled up a slide on the holoscreen, which showed an image of green energy stored in a high tech containment unit, with data info appearing next to it. “It appears to be that Cadmus has decided to train it’s focus on something other than cloning. Thanks to a new investor, they’ve decided to widen their research. First with cloning, now with ecto-energy.”

“Ecto-energy?” Artemis asked.

“Ectoplasm.”

“So like ghosts. Seriously? Cadmus believes in ghosts?” Kid joked, but when he saw the look on Bats’ face, he instantly shut up.

“When an organization as powerful as Cadmus decides to investigate and research something that may seem like fiction, it’s never a wise decision to write it off as that. Now suit up, you’re heading out now.”

The screens shut off and Batman left, leaving the team to get ready.

The ride on the bioship was quiet for the most part as they flew to the small city of Amity Park, the place where the new facility was located. It was on the outskirts of the city, so hopefully the team wouldn’t too much attention when a camouflaged alien ship flew over their skyscrapers. Batman had said to Dick before that he had his suspicions about Amity Park and it’s ongoings.

There was an incident a few years ago when the entire city vanished off the face of the earth and hadn’t reappeared till a few days later. It was everywhere on the news. Nobody knew what happened and when the locals tried to explain to them that it was because of a ghost invasion, the reporters dismissed them and shrugged it off as some sort of hallucinogen. But a hallucinogen that could convince an entire city that ghosts exist and had taken over their town? Even that was a little far fetched in theory for the League. But then again, you never know. There were even rumors about a ghost superhero in the city, who fought off evil ghosts. But many of the rumors contradicted each other, some saying that he was a hero who fought for those who couldn’t fight for themselves, and others said that he was a menace who needed to be contained. So before Robin left for the mission, Batman pulled him aside and told him to look out for anything suspicious, and to have the camera inside his mask recording the whole time. He was obviously gonna go over the footage later when he got back from the mission.

But for now, Wally was trying to make some jokes about the whole Cadmus-believing-in-ghosts thing, but he wasn’t able to get a laugh out of anyone. Maybe a smirk out of Dick, but that was about it. They had arrived at the coordinates just when Kid was trying to think up of a pun with ‘ectoplasm’, so far he had nothing, and the team hoped that he would never find one.

They exited the bioship and activated their stealth suits while M’gann created the mental link with everyone.

Link established her voice echoed inside of everyone’s heads.

Good. Kaldur “said”. Robin, M’gann see if you can sneak into the ventilation shafts and hack into the security measures and find us a way inside. Once you lower the defenses, give us a two minute window and then raise them again. Hopefully, it’ll seem like a blip on their security feeds and it’ll be ignored.

On it. Robin said before disappearing into the forest they had landed in. M’gann pulled up her hood and instantly camouflaged with the shrubbery before following the Boy Wonder. She actually had no idea where Robin was, she couldn’t see him. The only way she knew where he was, was because of the mental link, guiding her to the place he was hiding. She followed the mental trail till she exited the forest and saw the bright outline of a small white building. Robin still nowhere in sight.

There’s a vent on the west side of the building. That’s our entrance point. Think you can bust it open? Robin said.

M’gann turned around and saw her teammate standing beside her, looking as if he was there the entire time.

Oh, yeah the Martian replied. They turned and walked to the other side of the building, Robin keeping a lookout for the security cameras the whole time, telling when to move or when to stop, staying vigilant the entire time for henchmen with guns or any other kind of weapon. They finally found the vent on the west side of the building and M’gann raised her hand, carefully removing the screws that kept it in place. Once it was off and the vent was open, Robin pulled out his grapple gun and shot at the opening, pulling himself up to the vent while M’gann flew.

Once inside, M’gann became visible again and Robin crawled forward a bit before stopping and pulling up the holoscreen on his gauntlets.He began hacking into the cameras and any other kind of security measures, with the little Robins on the screen turning red to green.

Alright, you guys are on the two minute timer.

Copy that. Kaldur replied. Robin shut off his holoscreen and continued to crawl through the vent, M’gann following right behind him, as they tried to find an empty room to drop into.

“Here.” the Martian whispered to the Boy Wonder as they came up to another vent opening. Robin took out what looked like to be the Bat equivalent of a swiss army knife and began to unscrew the screws around the vent. Carefully removing them and opening the vent, he dropped down onto the floor without a sound while M’gann hovered over the floor before landing silently on the linoleum as well.

Let’s go He said.

The door opened easily and the two heroes slipped into the hallway without anyone knowing that they were there. Robin pulled up the security footage on his gauntlets again, checking to see where the rest of the team was coming in. While he had put the footage on a loop for the guards, he actually had the live feed from the cameras, which showed Kid Flash and Superboy sneaking in from the roof and Kaldur and Artemis sneaking in through the backdoor.

A smirk appeared on the boys face.

Cameras coming back online in five, four, three, two, one.

The camera feed fritzed for a split second, signalling that Robin had lost his control over the cameras. He still had live footage, but he couldn’t do anything about it now. This Cadmus facility had better security than the first one. Which was surprising.

Alright, now that the cameras are back online, we can’t afford to be seen by any of them. Kaldur said.

Got it. Kid said.

Which means we can’t exactly meet up. We’re gonna have to investigate the floors on our own. Said Robin.

I agree. The Atlantean said.

Kid Flash and I have the third floor.

Me and Kaldur will take the first floor then.

And me and Robin have the second.

Robin, think you can hack into the camera feeds again? Kaldur asked.

Not really, Robin thought I have a live feed, but I can’t do much. This Cadmus facility has a lot more security measures than the last one. Probably because we were able to infiltrate it. The most I could do is delay the feed or maybe freeze it all together. But if I freeze it, I don’t know how long it’ll take for them to notice. We would have a few minutes at most.

A few minutes is better than none. Artemis said.

True. Alright then, freezing the feed in three, two, one.... Done.

Let’s go Kid Flash thought before zooming from one room to the other.

M’gann and Robin headed for the first door they saw and opened it to see that it was a lab of sorts. Just their luck. They shuffled through the papers and documents and Robin took samples of the strange green fluid they found in vials, going as fast as they could. They had no problems until suddenly red lights started flashing and wailing filled the air. Everyone heard Connor grunt in pain at the sound of the din.

Uh, guys? Looks like they noticed. Kid said

Yeah, kinda figured. Artemis sarcastically said at him in return.

Robin heard the sound of heavy footsteps in the hallway and quickly pocketed the vials he had and pulled out two birdarangs in their place as M’gann shifted into camouflage mode again.

Hiding by the sides of the doors, Robin and M’gann held their breath hoping that the guards would leave without knowing they were ever there. If only they had.

“They’re in here!” one man shouted, his voice muffled. The door was suddenly kicked down by a black boot, which was attached to a man dressed in all black, including a strange white visor that covered his face. Robin jumped into action, kicking the man in the gut and punching the visor, shattering it.

There were six guards total in the hallway, all dressed exactly the same as the first one, who all had these strange looking guns in their hands. They were white with silver accents and a bright green tip, which glowed.

Robin threw the birdarangs, each hitting it’s intended mark, as M’gann came out from behind the wall, throwing three of the guards against the wall telekinetically.

“There it is!” One of the guards shouted as he raised his ‘gun’ at M’gann and began shooting like a madman. The is only thing just as bad as a trained marksman, and it was a trigger-happy amatuer. Which this guard clearly was. M’gann flew out of the way, dropping her camo and doing her best to avoid the shots that were fired at her, putting all of her focus into her telekinesis and not getting shot. Meanwhile Robin stayed focused on the thugs he was fighting, and occasionally threw a birdarang at their guns, knocking them out of the guards hands’. One of them was proving to be a nuisance, seeing as no matter how hard Robin hit him, he kept coming back up. The guard had been able to pin Robin’s arms to his side as he held him in a strong grip, and as Robin struggled to get out of it, the guard strained to say something to him.

“Why the hell are you helping that thing? It’s just using you. It doesn’t care about you at all. As soon as you lose your usefulness, it’ll kill you.”

Robin headbutted the guard, breaking his visor, and revealing part of his face. He leaped away from the guard and took up a fighting stance.

“What the hell are you talking about?” he hissed at the man.

“It’s a ghost you idiot kid. It’s only manipulating you for it’s own gain.”

Robin shook his head and smirked. “You’re crazy.” He threw another birdarang at the man, who ducked out of the way. He ran up to Robin, grabbed his arm, and threw him over his shoulder into the lab. When Robin landed, he heard the sound of glass shattering and felt something wet covering his whole body.

Robin! M’gann yelled out in the mental link.

Ugh, oh no. Robin thought to himself as he got up. He thought he was covered in his own blood, but in reality, he had been thrown into the dozens of glass vials that held the ectoplasm. The Boy Wonder looked down at his arms to find the green goo covering his arms and a few cuts here and there, his blood mixing with the ghostly substance. That can’t be good. He thought.

He turned up to look at his opponent, who had a look of rage blazing in his eyes, and he saw that he had a pair of escrima sticks, sparking with electricity. Robin tried to move, picking himself up off of the ground and slipped into a shaky fighting stance. The man scowled.

“You’re a fool, boy.” he growled.

“NO!” M’gann shouted throwing every guard against the wall and knocking them all unconscious. Then everything seemed to slow down, as if time was moving at a slugs pace.

The guard hitting the wall dropped his sticks, still sparking with voltages of high electricity.

They clattered to the floor and slowly rolled over to the growing pool of ectoplasm. Which Robin was still standing in.

He watched as the tip touched the pool, and then everything went to hell.

The last thing Dick remembered was the sound of screaming and the feeling of immense pain shooting through his body. It felt as if he was being pulled apart, pushed together, ripped to pieces, and being stitched back together again all at the same time. He vaguely heard the sound of someone yelling his name, but he couldn’t remember. The boy hero collapsed on the floor, his body still spasming. He felt someone’s arms wrap around him and a comforting presence fill his mind before he was enveloped in darkness.

M’gann didn’t know what she saw. Nor what to do. She could only watch in frozen horror as her friend was electrocuted. His screams piercing their way into her mind, and M’gann knew in that moment that she would forever be haunted by the sound of those screams.

He collapsed on the ground, Robin’s body still spasming from the shock, and the young Martian didn’t hesitate to rush to his aid. She cast aside the escrima sticks and knelt next to Robin, her knees and cape staining from the sticky ectoplasm on the ground, and wrapping her arms around the boy. She could feel the pain coming from him and so she entered his mind, careful to avoid anything that was related to his identity, and she took the pain away. Replacing it with a comforting blanket of numbness and putting him into a deep sleep.

Tears pricked at M’gann’s eyes. But she willed them to remain in her eyes, she couldn’t lose it now. Not when Robin needed her help.

We need to get Robin out of here. Now. she said to the others. They had all heard the screams and felt the pain that the Boy Wonder felt, and they had all been shocked into silence. Kid Flash most of all.

They were all shaken out of their trance at the sound of M’gann’s ‘voice’, and had begun to make their way out. Except for Kid, who ran down to the second floor and reached the lab M’gann and Robin were in. When he saw the pool of ectoplasm, dried blood, and blackened skin on Robin, he felt like he was going to throw up. Who could ever see their best friend like this?

“Kid!” M’gann shouted at him! Wally was shaken out of his haze and his eyes focused on the Martian girl.

“Get him back to the ship! Run as fast as you can!” The speedster nodded and in a flash, Robin and Kid Flash were gone. Leaving M’gann by herself.

“Come on, buddy. Please stay with me.” Wally whispered to his friend as he ran through the building. He came across a couple of guards, but instead of fighting them and knocking them out, he ran between them. He couldn’t waste any time, not when his friend’s life was on the line. Soon enough, he was out of the facility and in the forest. The bioship came into sight and Wally let out a small breath of relief.

As if sensing the urgency of the situation, the ship opened its doors and released it’s camouflage, allowing Wally to rush inside. He placed Dick on a table that the ship had created, just when the rest of the team rushed in.

In no time at all, the bioship was in the air, flying fast to Happy Harbor, Rhode Island and to Mount Justice.

While the rest of the team sat in their chairs, glancing over at Dick from time to time, Wally stood next to him the entire trip. He took off his cowl and sat down in a makeshift chair the ship had created. He just didn’t understand how this could’ve happened to his best friend. He looked at Dick again, and finally saw the changes that he didn’t see before. It was subtle, but other than the dried blood and ectoplasm sticking to his skin and the blackened areas around his mask, Dick’s normal pitch black hair had gained streaks of white in it. It was an odd thing to see, yet nothing else had changed about his appearance. But if Wally knew anything about lab accidents, it was that usually appearances can be deceiving. And if something did happen to Dick in that lab, Wally knew that no matter what, it was still his friend, and nothing would change between them.

It was a vow that Wally took as he stared at his friend lying unconscious on the table. The young speedster looked down at the ground, a feeling of uselessness overcoming him.

“Please, be okay.”

Notes: i know, i know, this chapter isn’t as good as it could’ve been. But i did have fun writing it, and i hopefully will upload the next chapter soon. Depends on how much school work i have though.

Also, i figured out that each halfa we see on Danny Phantom, minus Dani, was somehow able to get there powers through the combination of electricity and ectoplasm. First with Vlad and the ghost portal prototype in college, and second with Danny in the actual Ghost Portal. So i figured that a combo of those two things, would allow Dick to get his ghost powers. And if you’re wondering why his hair isn’t completely white, like with Danny and Vlad, well, you’ll just have to wait on that explanation.

Then there’s the guards thinking that M’gann was a ghost. I actually really like that.

Please leave comments and reblog. Until next time!

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