#jack plans to take down the Giw on his own

[tanglepelt]

Dc x dp idea 92

I’ve seen prompts with Jack fleeing with a de-aged Danny hiding in Gotham. Here he doesn’t stay with him. He drops Danny and Danielle in the very capable hands of red hood.

Danny reveals himself as phantom to his parents and introduces his mirror sister. Both ready to dip if it went bad. Immediately jack feels so guilty for hunting his kid.

He is ready to welcome them both.

Maddie disagrees. This leads to both Danny and Danielle being seriously injured. Jack barley got them out. There ghost half protecting them lead to them both being turned around 4-5

Jack isn’t a dumb man as he seems. He may have gotten b minuses but that was in advance physics and science courses. So he does research.

Creates two brackets that hide his newly made twins ecto signatures so they can’t be found. He didn’t have enough time to make something that allowed their powers to work with them.

He knows the Giw and His soon to be ex (he hasn’t had the ability to get her to sign the paperwork) are after him. They didn’t see the twins be turned to toddlers.

So he has a plan to take down the Giw and Maddie’s sister wouldn’t be safe for the two. Sam and tucker wouldn’t be safe. Jack has to find a safe place for the twins with a bounty on their thankfully teenage heads.

He does a deep dive. He finds online a supposed crime lord. Enough digging he can tell that guy doesn’t let kids get hurt. The stuff he doesn’t isn’t all bad and well… He can’t trust heros. So he packs up and heads out.

Jack pleads his case to either just Red Hood. Or maybe just shows up in the middle of a mission jason is on with the outlaws for a bit more chaos.

[ririblogsss]

Danny the park crazy guy

Ok this follows Danny with him deciding he needs to get out of Amity Park cause he's parents are getting more and more obsessed with catching Phantom. And the plans he'd over heard were sending him into panic attacks. Not only that a new management was placed for the GIW, and with that they had become more brutal and accurate with their capturing. Danny couldn't make sure ghosts were safe and protect civilians, so Danny made a deal with Technus in exchange for most of the tech Danny has made in the past 6 months Technus has to hack into the portals that his parents and Vlad owned and permanently destroy them. Technus also made sure to wipe all the information on how to re-build the portal and planted a bug that will corrupt any file trying to mimic the portals code/mechanics. 

At first Dannys plan was to play the part of the defenseless boy who just witnessed his parents whole life work go down the drain, and pretend that ghost never happened. He's parents were sad (understatement of the century) but they soon found something to hyper focus on, before becoming ecto-biologist, they were trying to find ways to make liquid that would dissolve plastic in a non-lethal and non-toxic way. So after 2 months of not doing anything and only staying in bed eating ice-cream and fudge its like a light bulb turned on onto of their heads, and Madeline and Jack went back to their old selves. They still had moments were they would gaze back at their projects with heartbroken eyes, and Danny could help but blame himself for his parents suffering. 

Its like one day everything was close to normality (as normal as amity park could be) people weren't mentioning ghost in fear that one would appear out of spite. Classes went uninterrupted people were actually happy for that. 

But then the GIW started making moves, as they were getting more and more restless with no ghost sightings in the last 6 months. 

Then 3 months ago everything went to shit......

Danny could only explain it as if the Salem witch trials had started. But instead it was the 21st century and people were being accused of being / cooperating / aiding ghosts. The GIW had stormed into the town hall and had claimed that Amity park was in full quarantine. No one in no one out. Vlad was taken in for 'investigation' accused of working with the ghost because he never helped the GIW or offered funds, hence committing treason the US government. 

After that People would be taken out of their homes and obligated to take tests to prove they weren't with the enemy, if they passed they went back to their homes traumatized. if they failed.... Well no one really knows, but one might guess from all the screaming. 

Ironically. Dannys parents were the fist accused of cooperating with the enemy. The GIW stated that they seemed suspicious from the start as they never truly caught anything. he hadn't seen them since they were drugged and stuffed into the back of a van. Danny was thankful that Jazz (for collage) and Dani (traveling in Bangladesh) were out of Amity, but it wasn't like he could contact them and tell them what was happening. 

The GIW had cut all contact to the rest of the word from Amity Park probably because what they were doing was considered illegal and definitely were crossing human rights. 

Luckily Sams and Tuckers family were able to come to an agreement with the GIW so they could be exempted from the quarentine (buy themselves a way out). Unluckily Danny like most families didn't have those types of resources. 

But Danny isn't a Fenton for nothing, craziness, gull and genius ran through his veins. So every morning when they were obligated out of their homes and made to sit on the grass of the park square while the agents searched for any 'evidence' in their homes. Danny would use his core to emit a frequency that only other ghost and some metas could hear. But that wasn't what Danny was communicating to no. 

He was sending commands to all the animals he had befriended the last 15 years of his life. You see ever since Danny was a kid he loved how one could be able to domesticate any animal as long as you had food. So Danny when he was a kid applied The Operant conditioning to all the animals he crossed paths with. 

A few weeks after his accident (death) when Danny was making his daily feeding times for the animals in exchange for trinkets and money he realized something. He could understand what the animals 'spoke' and the animals could understand him through the vibrations of his core. When he asked CW about it he only told him that ghost speak allowed him to communicate with anything and anyone if he had a close enough relationship towards them. 

Basically this meant that Danny had hundreds if not thousands of animals (rats, street dogs and cats, pigeons, squirrels ect.. ) at his disposal. The only reason he never used them when fighting Ghosts was obvious he wasn't going to risk the life of his friends. 

And right now his friends were making underground escape routes for all of the Amity Parkers. The plan was already being set in motion. Everyone knew their part. 

One group would be distraction, a group of kids would scream and point in the opposite direction of the escape route and say they had seen a ghost and it was trying to hurt them. The GIW would be guided into a wooded area were they would be attacked by the more predatorial animals. Making them call for back up. 

One group would composed of the most athletic adults / young adults would go into the main base of the GIW (check for survivors and help them get out). 

Another group (the elderly) was in charge of checking that everyone was accounted for. 

Mothers, would be evacuated first with their children, they would be the get away drivers. Different drivers would take different routs. Some left the country other the continent itself. Some when to larger cities for hiding amongst the crowd. But the main goal was stick to your family and preferably if you can go alone. The less people the less likely you are to getting caught. 

And the teenagers from casper high, would ensure all their traces were lost making sure all phones and gadgets were left behind, as to avoid getting tracked down. 

And that's how Amity Park became a dead town (pun intended) in less than 60 minutes. 

This leads us to the present. 

It had been 7 months since Danny had left Amity park. he hadn't seen anyone or contacted anyone from there since. The over all consensus was that everyone had to go no contact with one another as to not raise awareness as to why so many people from different places were constantly calling one another. Danny was certain that Jazz and Dani had been contacted by Sam and Tucker about the situation in Amity. What he wasn't sure of is if they knew he was out of Amity or even alive for that matter. 

Danny was not dealing with what happened well. One of the guys who went into the Town Hall pulled him a aside for a second when they were evacuating to tell him. That he had seen both his parents bodies. They had not survived. Not many who were taken against their will into the Hall came out spared. 

Danny was devastated with his parent untimely death, he only hoped they had a humane one. 

So no Danny was not ok. he knew Jazz would criticize his copping methods. But if taking over a park in the middle of a crime riddled city was sooooo bad then why did he have the support of the Bats. (not the vigilantes the actual cave bats). 

Danny had gotten to Gotham not too long ago (about 4 1/2) months, and decided that the GIW wouldn't dare on their life go into a city were the 'wolds greatest detective and most feared man live'. Danny made an abandoned building overlooking the park his own. he quickly became allies with the fauna there and soon his rein over the part began. 

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It started slowly, honest to god not a single local though anything of the bony kid laughing his ass off as he oversaw birds and other critters alike help him build what looked like a greenhouse. They did what any Gothamite would do mind their own damn business and go on with their day. 

It wasn't unlit the trees and torn plants started to build a wall like structure around the park that they started to think that the kid was going to be the next Poison Ivy. Worst of all they some have speculated seeing Pamela and Harley go in and out of the park... both smiling like proud parents. Some say that the kid was an ex Wayne kid that was sent into an asylum, and was kept quiet. Some speculate that the kids a meta that controls all animals. Some state they saw the kid talk to the animals and the animals actually listened and did word for word what he asked. 

But Gothamites weren't that worried if they were honest. The kid (Danny as he was now known) brought more entertainment (of the good kind) to Gotham he fit right in. The only thing that made him stand out was his mid-western accent. When asked where he was from he would only stare at you while an animal (different every time mostly racoons) would chase you away. Other than that the kid was a sweetheart he would often bring the veggies and fruits he cultivates in the park to homeless shelters so that the residents would have a 'more nutritious and full diet'. 

The kid would send animals to keep watch on kids and be alerted if any were at risk he would drop in and help in a very unusual way. And he always traded money for little things and bottle caps anything handmade (especially by kids) was infinitely rewarded with money and an automatic meal. 

Danny was known as the Gotham parks crazy. But he was their crazy and no government (illegal) agency of a brigade of bats and birds was going to take him away from them. 

(waaa this was way longer that expected I only wanted to write a sentence of local crazy Danny, and I just ended up writting mostly art other stuff)

[too-much-tma-stuff]

Finally getting help (prt 4)

Masterpost

The bats worked through the night, coordinating and researching everything that needed to be done. Distortion showed up on the camera which they assumed was Vlad trying to get in but he didn’t manage it. After he finished trying from multiple angels including somehow from directly above (well Zatana did say invisibility, intangibility, and flight were the minimal powers they should expect from creatures of the infinite realms.) He turned human again and spent a long time banging on their front door.

He tried to call the cops but commissioner Gordon called Bruce directly to get the full story then told Vlad it could be dealt with in the morning. Zatana was also coordinating people heading to Amity, a full on raid of the GIW, and the Fentons.

Batman and Superman were collecting all the information that the raid team was sending out and workshopping public statements they could sent out to the public and the government about the unacceptable things they had found and the steps the JL was taking to fix it. The government was not going to be happy they knew, with the JL ‘over-stepping’ into their business and actually getting the word out about the atrocities a branch of their government and their pet scientists had been planning. The JL needed to get out ahead of it before the narrative could be twisted against them.

It was first thing in the morning when they did a live broadcast from the watchtower with Batman, Superman, and Zatana telling the world about the parallel world existing harmlessly along side their own, and the way the government tried to exploit it. The atrocities committed under the name of the Anti-Ecto acts with the ignorance of the public as a cover.

It was at the same time that Constantine, Dick, and Cas were raiding the Fenton’s home. Of course they were armed, but so were the bats, and they were used to fighting people who were armed. It wasn’t a particularly hard fight.

A redhead was sitting wide eyed at the kitchen table. “Can’t we just have one normal day!” She suddenly snapped but she was glaring at her parents, standing up and slamming her hands on the table.  “First you send Danny away with Vlad even though you KNOW they hate each other and it’s a school day and now this! What did you do to bring the heroes down on us!?”

“I don’t know Jazzybear!” Jack half whined as he was forced into power supressing cuffs to neutralize his minor super strength and sat down in the living room.

“I’m sure this is just a misunderstanding, don’t worry sweetie,” Maddie added, both of them were dressed in jump suits which did not help their supervillain vibes.

“it’s not a mistake mate, you’ve been messing with shit you really shouldn’t. And that portal in your basement is a fucking beacon welcoming a war. You’ve gone unchecked for too god damn long, we’re taking over things now.” Constantine told them before stalking down into the basement with Tim on his heels, Batman would be joining them as soon as they were done their press conference.

Cas stayed to watch the parents and Dick approached Jazz gently. “Hey can I talk to you in private please? It’s about your brother,” He said gently and she stiffened immediately. Looking at him in a way that made him feel like she could see straight into his soul and froze him to the spot. After a moment though she just sighed and nodded, beckoning to him to follow her upstairs, to a room that was probably Danny’s not her own. She sat on his bed and grabbed a bear that had been sitting on the edge, waving for him to sit at the desk.

“So, what do you know?” She asked with a sigh.

“Well, last night Vlad took Danny to a Wayne Gala, one of Bruce’s daughter Cas is really good with body language and clocked that something was wrong so she and one of the other kids got him away from Vlad and out of the party. I guess he really needed some adult support because he broke down and told them a lot, about the Phantom thing, the ghosts and… something you’re not going to like. But first I want you to know he’s safe, Bruce Wayne is a licensed foster parent and he’s taking good care of Danny, you can come live with them too if you want.

“We’re going to deal with the ghosts and the GIW and everything else now, I can’t promise by the end of this you won’t need somewhere else to go. I have a feeling if Batman and the Martian family have anything to say about this your parents will end up in prison for their unethical experiments.”

“As long as Danny is okay,” Jazz said firmly. “I was only staying to take care of him anyway, just get me emancipated and a scholarship for Gotham U so I can study while still being close to him I’ll be fine. I’m almost 18 as it is.”

Dick nodded, she was a smart and driven girl, she knew what she wanted, he could respect that. “Now, the thing you won’t like…” he trailed off and took a deep breath. “Danny is pregnant.”

“What!?“ Jazz blanched, gaping at him for a long minute. “That can’t be right! I mean I knew he was trans but he’s usually only interested in girls, how would he even-“ She cut off her eyes widening. “It was Vlad wasn’t it?” She gritted out with an expression the promised excruciating violence.

“Yes,” Dick said shifting awkwardly in his chair.

“Right.” Jazz said and got up, coldly calm. “If you’ll excuse me, I’ll be right back.” She grabbed a baseball bat from next to Danny’s bed that seemed to be glowing slightly then marched to the other side of the room, opened a cabinet and pulled out two odd looking guns. Before Dick could say much of anything she had vaulted out of the window and taking off down the street.

“Oh dear,” Dick muttered faintly before heading back downstairs. “Hey Cas can we turn on the news, some sort of local station?” He asked. Cas nodded and searched around for the remote, turning it on to find the channel was already on local news.

Vlad was already on there, talking about how it was awful Bruce Wayne had Kidnapped a local child Danial Fenton, and he could not be allowed to get away with this just because he was rich! But that didn’t last long, they watched for a few minutes before a blur of red hair and blue rushed past the camera.

“YOU TOUCHED MY BROTHER YOU CREEP!” Jazz said as she came out swinging and she must have quite the arm because her first swing sent him nearly flying off the stage. He scrambled to get up as she lunged at him again.

“Now Jasmine you’ve clearly been misinformed, I didn’t do anything-“ His muffled voice was cut off as she swung the bat again and he yelped as she hit him in the stomach.

“YOU GOT HIM PREGNANT! YOU DID THIS! YOU SHOULD BEHIND BARS NOT BEHIND A PODIUM YOU FROOTLOOP!” She shrieked as she swung again and this time he managed to dodge. The cameras following them as Jazz chased him down the street, the sound of his supplications and her shrieking fading out as they became more and more distant.

It took a frantic moment for the camera angle to switch to something else, maybe a drone, which was able to follow them down the street.

“You Don’t UNDERSTAND! I didn’t want to hurt him! I just wanted a perfect son! If he had just agreed to be my son none of this would have happened! When I knew it failed I told him to let them die!” Vlad yelled at her, though that did NOT seem to comfort Jazz at all. She had devolved into shrieking book titles like curses as she chased him with the bat and shot at him with the guns though her aim didn’t seem very good.

Well they had him admitting to it on camera now. As he watched a new actor joined the fray, a girl in a red jumpsuit holding a blaster.

“You did what to Danny!?” She demanded as she pointed the blaster at Vlad.

“Oh cheespuffs!” Vlad breathed, his eyes widening as Jazz trailed off letting who must be Red Huntress take over the chase as Vlad shouted about how he had made her! He had given her her weapons she couldn’t use them against him! Which did not seem to be stopping her.

The camera fuzzed out for just a second and then Valery was chasing a ghost with red eyes and a white outfit. Cas was laughing silently at the show and both of the Fenton parents seemed to be in shock. A few minutes later Jazz walked back in through the front door looking tired.

“Turn that off please,” she sighed as she put the bat down.

“Of course,” Cas agreed and picked up the remote again, turning off the tv. 

“Vlad didn’t actually do that, did he Jazzy?” Jack asked softly, he sounded so hurt, as if he had any fucking right!

Jazz looked at him blankly. “How many times have we tried to warn you about him? How many times has Danny told you he didn’t feel safe with Vlad? But as usual you couldn’t see past your own desires. I’m going to go see if the trenchcoat guy needs any help getting into your files,” She sighed before vanishing downstairs. 

Dick glanced at Cas, and then followed them, she would have no trouble watching the Fentons and staying quiet whereas Dick felt like he was about to explode. Batman joined them before long and between the three of them they shut the bulkheads on the portal and locked them, secured dangerous chemicals and devices, and downloaded everything they could. There were plenty of prototypes and blueprints, and stuff that could generously be called research.

It was obvious these people were geniuses but it was even more obvious that at some point they had become careless and obsessive. Half of the writing on the blueprints wasn’t legible, dangerous chemicals were not in proper containment, and the weapons were not locked up. Looking at all of this it wasn’t surprising that two of the people they had been involving in their research suffered exposure, it was a surprise more hadn’t. It was easy to tell when Bruce came down he was horrified, it was in the way he froze when he saw the lab, as if his brain was struggling to process just how irresponsible the Fenton parents had been.

“You must be Jazz, it’s nice to meet you. Danny speaks highly of you,” He finally rebooted to say when she waved at him. 

“I love my little brother, I always did the best I could to keep him safe from… all this,” Jazz said gesturing at the lab with a sigh. “I wish it had done any good.”

“You did plenty of good,” Dick put in. “Trust me, to a kid having someone care about them can make all the difference. 

“All those nights I patched him up after he came back from fighting ghosts. He healed fast but still. I can’t believe… he’s already been through so much and we knew Vlad was up to something! Ellie said she was our cousin but she looked just like him, I should have kept a closer eye on-” She cut off and shook her head. “He’s a good kid, of course if he couldn’t give the babies up, even if it would be better for them if he did. I hope he knows I’d support him either way, I hope he didn’t not tell me because he thought I’d be upset at Him.”

“I’m sure he didn’t,” Dick assured her gently. “Being a big sibling is hard, I know. But trust me you’re doing a great job, better than I did with my brothers,” he said, patting her shoulder. “You can ask him yourself later though. We have a lot to get done today to make sure he’s safe.”

She nodded stubbornly and doubled down on her work, directing them occasionally to where she knew they’d find more weapons or logs. She knew her way around the lab to a disturbing extent. 

Bruce and Dick both got a notification from Agent A saying that after a substantial sleep in Danny had woken up and was having breakfast. He seemed worried about the family but he was taking it alright, especially since he knew they were busy people. It did motivate Dick to clear things up as soon as they could so that they could get back to Danny though. The last thing he needed was More stress!

They had plenty of evidence of the Fenton parents breaking the law to call the police and have them taken away which gave them all the time they needed to strip the house. They got everything they could and decided to leave Constantine at the house to watch the portal until they could figure out how to shut it down completely without causing any damage. It seemed unstable so they didn’t want to risk it just now, especially without Danny’s input because according to Jazz Danny had made genuine connections in the Infinite Realms. 

They wrapped up this stage of the investigation before dinner after being up for about 36 hours. Of course they weren’t Done, there was still plenty to do investigating the government, how they’d gotten away with this and if they had any other nasty tricks up their sleeve. They’d have to manage any backlash from this unilateral move, and they’d have to figure out what to tell the public about Danny since Bruce would be fostering him. But all that could be done after having a family dinner with their new brother and a nap. 

part 5

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[dannyphantom1234]

Reborn as Dan Phantom.

A fan of the show is reborn as Dan, the evil version of Danny just as he was created— but what no one knew was a fangirl had taken over the body and knew just what to do to help her family that would suffer what she just went through unless she did something to help. So— she creeped towards Clockwork, stole the time medallion, went to the timeline of the original, and immediately took over as big brother figure to help these poor children from suffering the future they would have to endure alone without adult supervision.

She— now he— didn’t care for gender, and just wanted to help and protect his new(ish) family from bad people. What he didn’t know was he was also thrown alongside the dc universe, which was an awesome discovery on his part later on.

Dan— or Dante— as he wished to be called, came to the group with sorrow in his heart as he explained what would happen in the future if Danny cheated on his test, not that it was anyone’s fault but fates. He explained how no one was at fault and it could all be avoided if he could help it.

He took over the ghost fights, and had a long talk with Clockwork about what would happen and his real purpose for being there.

His original timeline was obviously erased, and the only reason he survived was because of the medallion, so later he had to go through ghost magic and make himself his own person, gained a whole butt load of tattoos intertwined with ghost time magic and becomes the next king of the infinite realms after defeating the old guy easily after seeing him beat up his little bro.

Dante became king instead of Danny and took over all the overloaded paperwork along the way.

What he didn’t know, was that he would be summoned because of his status. He really thought the fan fictions were just exaggerating what would happen if he was ever given the position and power. Well, it was all true from what he read.

(I’m making this a Dante/King Phantom x Jason Todd/Red Hood).

He made an actual legal identity for himself with the help of Technus and Tucker, who became better pals after they set aside the fact that they attacked each other at some point or another.

Danny became a little brother to him, Jazz became his little sister who likes to treat him as if he were still Danny at times, and Danielle became his daughter.

Dante legally adopted Dani after they got his papers in order, and made her an identity as well. Elle was much younger than he remembered, but then again, she was deaged recently and just came back into contact with the group, who couldn’t take care of her because they were still children as well.

Vlad was still a little evil but leveled out after a huge diabolical involving Maddie, their so called mother.

Madeline Fenton had thought her son and daughter conspired with the ghosts and attacked them in their own home, Danny was greatly injured with multiple blast wounds and Jazz suffered a concussion while trying to push him out of the target zones.

Jack had football tackled Madeline and the rest was history.

Vlad had fallen out of love with her after seeing what she did to her own children, and instead got his head out of his butt and realized he was in love with Jack all along.

Jack divorced Madeline, took custody of his kids and decided they should move, all while Vlad made plans to take down GIW with Team Phantom.

Jack and Vlad met him and decided to emotionally adopt Dante as well in their messed up family.

Dante got a job as a mechanic and started his own business in Gotham. Very cliche from all the fanfics he read in his past life but he wanted to do something he knew and loved. He loved fixing things and his side job as the king of the infinite realms was basically being like a father to ghost children while scolding those who thought it was a good idea to attack innocent mortals.

He mainly spent his time raising Danielle. Giving her everything she deserves and making her happy now that his family was safe.

He was randomly summoned by the Justice League who were ready to full on attack him until they saw him reading to his child, not realizing he was summoned until someone cleared their throat. He was literally in his own little bubble, reading his two year old daughter a storybook while holding her against his chest as he floated above the ground, laid back in a relaxed position.

How it would go:

I looked up from the book after feeling a sudden shift in my surroundings, seeing multiple very brightly dressed people in front of me. I glared, shifting completely into my ghost king form while holding my daughter close to my chest. The storybook I was reading had disappeared into a pocket dimension for later, as I had to deal with this madness.

“Who in their right minds would summon the Ghost King? I literally burnt all those summoning books to ash.” I grumbled, and looked down to see Elle had slightly woken up at the sound of my deep voice.

“Dada?” She mumbled, rubbing her right eye as she sat up from my chest.

“It’s alright, Elle,” I rumbled, kissing her forehead as she plopped back down to take her nap again at my reassurance. “We can finish reading time later today.” I murmured to her as she went back to snoozing.

“What do you want, mortals?” I asked nonchalantly.

“Why does the ghost king have a child? And how in the hell are you not attacking us as the books state?” Zatanna asked, looking on at me in shock.

“You willingly want to be attacked after summoning me? That’s idiotic. “ I state, looking bored with their conversation. I still held Elle close, not answering their questions about my child just yet.

“No, a bloody idiot summoned you just as we defeated him as a last defense!” Constantine spat out, looking hysterical.

“Well, sorry to break the news, coward, but the last king was defeated by me after trying to take over the world, he is now locked away in forever sleep until we can find a way to get rid of him completely.” I explained to the coward looking at me in shock on the ground, bruises across his face and the usual weird looking villain costume on him.

I looked around for a quick second before stopping at the Batfam. Who were all here in a more relaxed formation seeing a child in my arms. My favorite fandom family in my last life.

I looked them over before spotting the Red Hood, my celebrity crush I had on him was no secret to my family, but they had no room to judge for themselves.

His aura admitted contaminated ectoplasm, and I knew I had to heal him sometime in the future.

“May I ask what your goals are? And who is this child?” Superman spoke up after a moment of digesting my information about my new position.

“I protect both living and the undead. I don’t have a world ending goal in mind, just to raise my daughter and give her the life she deserves.” I said, looking down at my daughter with a small smile that would be unnoticeable to most.

I looked back up to see the large group had softened at my words and I was about to ask a question about Red Hood, when my daughter suddenly decided this was taking too long and too much noise for her to take a nap.

“Dada! Where puppy?” She demanded answers, smacking the side of my face with her chubby hands, as I floated there, unmoving with an emotionless face towards the group.

“Cujo is with the twerp, remember? He will come by later for playtime.” I answered, which was slightly muffled as she squished my cheeks together and smiled at me happily.

“Dada! Fishh—“ she squealed out, looking happy with herself as she giggled at my face.

“You gremlin—“ I muttered out, tickling her sides as she squeaked, her flying out of my arms and turning into her young ghost form, looking ready to play.

“Playtime?” She asked, bouncing a little in the air, clapping her hands a little.

“Not yet, blob ghost. We need to head back home for snack time.” I explained, crossing my arms as she pouted, my arm muscles bulged a bit as I crossed them, and I still always forget the fact that I’m taller than most, alongside bigger. In my past life, I was a stick of a girl that had spaghetti arms, much different for sure.

Her pouting turned into the famous puppy eyes, and I turned back to the group to avoid them, only to see amused faces all around.

“Do you guys need anything before we head back? I’m sure you don’t want to deal with a Princess tantrum.” I rumbled out, looking on in disinterest as Elle decided to hug the side of my face like an octopus. She probably still had the puppy eyes on.

“You have an adorable daughter!” Princess Diana exclaimed soon after I was finished speaking. “How old is she?” She asked, looking at me curiously as I lowered myself to the ground, Elle now floating behind my head as she played with my low ponytail.

“She is now two years old.” I answered, swiftly nabbing Elle from behind me while reaching the back of my head. I lowered my arms to see I had her upside down now, her hanging like a sack of potatoes as she giggled.

“Dada!” Elle exclaimed, waving her arms around her in glee as she looked up at me.

“You don’t feel like a ghost completely… neither does she, what are you exactly?” Constantine asked, waving his hand at me in confusion.

“I don’t know if I can trust you with that information, Constantine.” I growled a little, glaring at him as he stepped forward while Elle hid behind me.

“Hey now! Let’s calm down, no one needs to start anything!” Nightwing stepped in front of the glaring Constantine who looked more and more like a bug the longer I looked at him.

“There isn’t anything to start, really. His soul is in shreds at the moment, not very powerful compared to my kind anyway.” I stated, crossing my arms once again as Elle peaked out from over my shoulder.

“Now, I need to speak with a Mr. Red Hood.” I said, looking on at the Batfam who tensed at my words.

“Why?” Batman growled out, stepping in front of the confused Red Hood.

“To heal him, of course.” I sighed, pinching the bridge of my nose as I heard sounds of confusion from everyone else.

“His ectoplasm is very corrupted. He has the ghost flu, in which case makes my kind very moody and in need of pure ectoplasm to filter it and his emotions.” I briefly explained, unpinching my nose as I looked up from the ground. Willing my headache away for now.

“So his pit madness is basically the ghost flu?” Red Robin murmurs out hysterically, almost giggling in disbelief.

“Yes, I have heard of his haunt, Crime Alley, that being under his protection, I have never stepped foot on his property because I didn’t want to seem like a threat to a sick person who can’t control themselves completely with such a sickness.” I explained myself a bit nervously, rubbing the back of my neck a little with my right hand as Elle now sat on my left shoulder, swinging her legs.

“Wow, the ghost king is a dork…” I heard Spoiler mutter to Orphan, who nodded in agreement.

I huffed, crossing my arms and floated once again. “I can come back another time. I just wished to help a little. My doctor can probably fix him quicker than I, but I know what to do as I have studied under him for more than over a year now.” I informed them.

“So the pit madness can go away…?” Red Hood asked, stepping from around Batman to speak to me clearly.

“I’m unsure of what this “Pit Madness” is, but yes, I can heal you and make sure you properly get the help you need from your emotional roller coaster sickness.” I said, looking down at him as he took a few more steps to me, his family following behind him.

“Well, when can you fix me?” He asked, his voice modifier cutting all emotions from his voice, but I can clearly feel his emotions bursting from his almost formed core. It seems this sickness had stopped him from forming his core completely and left him sick for many years.

I could feel his hope, his rage and especially his bursts of want for some reason.

“I can fix you right now, but I wasn’t sure if you wanted privacy or not. It’s very…. Intimate. I can take you somewhere private if you would like?” I rumbled out, the burst of want came out more clearly, and I could tell Red Hood was clearly not expecting that word choice.

“Take me anytime—“ I could clearly hear his muttered out answer behind his helmet with my enhanced hearing, but I don’t know if I was supposed to hear that.

“Nope! Little Wing— you are not going with the ghost king—“ Nightwing suddenly yelled out, the whites of his mask bigger as Spoiler, Red Robin, and Signal burst into loud laughter. Batman sighed loudly in disappointment. Robin just “Tt” and sighed alongside his father, looking like a mini bat. Orphan just smiled at me.

“By intimate, I mean having a look at your soul, I will essentially have to take a closer look at that and cure you.” I fixed my words, making it seem as if I didn’t hear anything and I could feel a little disappointment coming from Red Hood but he nodded at my explanation.

[channajen]

DannyMay Day 9: Ghost Zone is now posted!

Summary: Jazz, Sam, and Tucker find Danny and Jack at Vlad's house. Some hard truths are revealed, and harder decisions follow. After everything is said and done, Jack has a plan.

This is part of the "Backpack-Eclipse" Series on A03

Teaser below cut:

(Time reference: This story takes place immediately before “Backpack in an open closet”)

“What am I gonna do now?” Danny’s echoed voiced rang through the quiet room. He looked at Vlad, who avoided eye contact. Then he turned to his father with tears in his eyes. “Dad…I can’t…I can’t stay here. Not anymore.”

“I know son. Earth isn’t your true home anymore.” Tears ran down the orange jumpsuit and tracked on the carpeted floor.  Everyone was quiet as the truth of those words sank in.

“I don’t wanna go…I don’t want to leave!” Little pitter-pats of ectoplasm dripped from the boy’s eyes.

“Daniel…” Vlad looked strange to Danny. His face portrayed a myriad of emotions. Grief, loss, shame, pity, even anger. “Daniel,” He tried again. “If the GIW come here again, we will not be able to hide you anymore.” The elder man swallowed. “There is also the matter of…hunters…who will be after Phantom, and it is too soon to see how the effects of your new state of being will play out.”

Danny huffed. “Like you care.”

Vlad’s irritation crept into his voice. “Believe it or not, Daniel, but I do care about you. Very much so. I am deeply appalled that this has happened to you. It is something I’ve dreaded since I discovered your existence. I remember what it is to be alone, Little Badger. I never wanted that for you.”

A loud “THUMP” reverberated through the den. It was accompanied by the sound of glass cracking. “What in the world?”

Jack immediately stood up, afraid that Maddie had tracked them and was coming to finish the job. He cautiously went to the window and pulled the drapes apart. Something had obviously smashed into the glass. Jack couldn’t tell what it was, due to the object’s placement on the ground. What he did see, were three very angry looking teens staring back at him.

His heart sank. Now was NOT the time! Jack closed his eyes and took a deep breath. These were Danny’s friends. They will not hurt him. The man kept repeating those words to himself as he made his way to the front door. He looked around the room at his stricken son and angry friend. “Looks like we’ve got company, guys.”

Danny immediately started to panic. “What? No! Who? I can’t let them see me like this! M̵̛̟͓͕͉͕̒͌̅̒̽̔̀͘i̴̢̭͙͈̮̞̣̮̰̐̽ ̴̡̧͍̥̣̜̜̣̞̐͊͗̔̽̍̃̏e̴̝̞̻͐̒̑̏̈̍͠ͅs̶̡̢̛̞̭̿̂͗̎̊͑͝t̴̫̟͗̒̚͘a̸̛̜̯̯̥̘̓̀̃͑͝͝s̴̻̼̪͓̘̘̝͓̽̏ ̴͈̎̿̌͂̊͛t̸̡̛̛͈̹̰̺̬̤́̽̂i̵̟͔̭̱̮̖͍͗̕e̸̢̹̣͑l̸̨̰͚̙̖͉͖̍͑̂͒̾̆̔̀ͅ ̵̩͆̐̋͝f̸͍̮̼̫̰̋͜ị̴̳̹̅ͅk̵̗̿̀͑̚i̵̟̜͕̳̤͉͈̽̀̒̿̚t̵͍͖͙̱͗̆͌̈́͘a̷̛̮̦̮̠̥̬̹̒̈́̈́̈́̿̈ ” His voice echoed words that Jack couldn’t understand.

Vlad, however, did. “Language, Daniel. I think connecting with your friends will be helpful for you moving…forward.” He swallowed. “You’ve only got five days with them. Make it count, boy.”

The tone was the perfect challenge to Danny’s beleaguered mind. Dealing with Vlad’s pompous bullshittery was easy—coming to terms with existential crisis, not so much. Danny took the easy road. He swiped at his eyes and shook his head. “Alright, Dad. Let them in please.”

“Are you sure, son? I don’t want you to feel pressured in the time…you have left. I just want you to be happy.”

Danny gave his father a weak smile. “Yeah, Dad. I’m sure. I need to make my goodbyes count, y’know?”

Jack wordlessly nodded. He slowly walked to the door, and opened it. Three glaring faces stared back at him. Surprising no one, Jazz was in the lead. “Where is my little brother?! What have you done with him??”

Sam’s voice was just as forceful, but held more emotion. “We saw the blood trail and followed it in this direction. The BOOmerang led us here. We know you have him.”

Tucker wasn’t paying attention to the ruckus in front of him. He peered around Jack and noticed Vlad sitting on a wingback chair, sipping what looked suspiciously like alcohol (at 7:00 in the morning!), and looking morose.

The heaviness that had been weighing on Tuck immediately lifted when he saw Danny nervously bobbing over the sofa in ghost form. Wait?! Since when…

He was pulled out of his thoughts by Jack’s words. “We have some things that we all need to discuss. It’s best if we do it inside.”

The trio looked at each other and communicated wordlessly. They needed to be sure that Danny was ok—but what was with the craziness that had him at Vlad’s house with Jack Fenton, of all people. Everyone knew that Vlad hated Jack. Yet here they were apparently sitting calmly in the den with Danny—in ghost form. Something wasn’t adding up.

Jack stepped back and opened the door wider. The three teens walked in cautiously and flinched when Jack slammed the door behind himself. “Sorry!” He said.

Jazz flashed him a tiny smile. “It’s ok, Dad. We know you’re clumsy.

Jack rubbed the back of his neck in a familiar gesture. Sam tilted her head. She’d never noticed that Mr. Fenton did that too. Maybe that’s where Danny got it from.

The trio made their way over to Danny. “Dude! Are you ok? We followed the bloody ecto trail almost all the way here!” Tucker was the first to speak.

Danny frowned and didn’t answer. Ice went down everyone’s spine. Danny always, always had a witty saying or a comeback. Plain silence wasn’t something they were used to from their friend.

Jazz and Sam really focused on Danny’s appearance. Sam looked at Danny and then to his sister. “Is it just me, or is Danny more transparent than usual?” She swallowed, hard.

Jazz reached out for her brother’s hand. He allowed it. It was so cold! Much colder than usual. Jazz paid closer attention to the other details about Danny that had been overlooked when they first found him.

She noticed that he wouldn’t make eye contact with anyone, and he was huddled in on himself. She absentmindedly filed away the fact that he hadn’t touched the floor once since they arrived. Something heavy began to build in the elder teen’s stomach.

“Dude!” Tucker was the next to say something. “When did you get a color change?”

Everyone whipped their heads around to see what Tucker was talking about. Sure enough, Danny’s ghostly skin tone was no longer brown, but a light baby blue. His eyes were different too. Instead of being solid green or solid blue, they were a constantly-swirling combination of both colors.

The sense of NOT RIGHT got much stronger. Everyone looked at each other. Finally, Vlad spat. “I’m not going to say a word. This is between Daniel and his friends.” He turned to Jack and Danny. “If you need me, I’ll be in my study.” Then he walked away without a backward glance.

Now that the group was “alone,” Jack herded everyone over to the large sofa with the chase lounge. It was big enough to hold everyone and still be comfortable. Once they were situated, Jack gently touched Danny’s chin and pulled his face around to see him eye-to-eye. “Son, this is your story. Do you want me to tell it for you? Or would you rather do it yourself?”

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Zalgo-Esperanto: “Mi estas tiel fikita”  (“I’m so fucked!”)

[redrobin-detective]

Delayed Mourning

Going Angst Day 5: Death

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It was 3pm when there was a knock on Maddie Fenton’s door. She huffed and set down the meal she’d been working on. Of course the one day she had time to pre-plan a nice meal from her family was the day she’d get interrupted. 

“Yes? May I help you?” Maddie asked, opening the door. She had expected a salesman. Possibly even a neighbor coming to complain, again, about the noise or the smells that came from Fentonworks. Instead she found a small woman who couldn’t have been much taller than 5 ft with dark brown hair tied up in a tight bun. She was wearing a sharp white shirt and suit jacket with a matching white skirt.

“Mrs. Fenton, hello,” the woman gave a polite little head nod. “I’m from the the Government Institute of Interdimensional Warfare though I hear the locals like to call us the Guys in White.” She said with a knowing smiling, “of course, as you know, it’s not only the guys who are interested in ghosts. May I come in?”

“Oh yes, hello,” Maddie blinked, opening the door to let the agent in. The petite woman stepped inside, her heels clicking on the hardwood floor. Her small frame, her oversized glasses and soft nature seemed so at odds with the meatheads Maddie usually found in the GIW. “Is there something I can help you with?”

“Perhaps,” the agent demurred. “It’s more there was something I wanted to inform you of. If you’re not too busy, may we sit down and talk? Your husband and children are not home.” Maddie thought that last statement was a bit odd, framed as a statement of fact rather than an inquiry but moved on. 

“Yes, Jack’s out of town visiting a relative and my kids won’t be back for a little while,” Maddie said. “Let me just finish putting this roast together, I’m almost done. Can I get you anything? Water? Tea?”

“No, thank you,” The woman said quietly. “And please, continue while you’re doing. Let me give you a little bit of background.” The agent adjusted her large glasses with her tiny hands. “Let me introduce myself, you may call me Agent S. I work primarily out of Washington for the Institute but sometimes I am deployed on site for... special cases. And, as I’m sure you’re aware, your town is very special.”

“Now, as you may have noticed, I am not particularly built like the normal Institute agents you have probably come across. That is because I do not work in the field but behind the scene in Investigations. My job is study the history and happenings of hauntings and spectral entities.”

“Oh that sounds fascinating,” Maddie beamed as she finished with her final preps and put the roast in the over. She looked over her shoulder at Agent S while she washed her hands. “Jack and I dabble a bit in history and folklore but we’re more versed in the hard sciences of ghosts.”

“Yes, I’ve read some of your papers, you and your husband truly are the frontrunners in the field,” Agent S nodded. Maddie preened at the praise and sat down, delighted to have a sophisticated conversation with someone in her field who she wasn’t married to. If more of those GIW agents were like Agent S then Maddie would get along a lot better with them. “So, Maddie, may I call you Maddie? What date and time did your portal start working?”

“It was August 28th,” Maddie said proudly. “It didn’t work at first when we first plugged it in. I’m afraid I don’t have an exact time it started up as we weren’t here. Jack was convinced one of the electrical conduction pieces wasn’t fully connected and was preventing ectoplasmic distribution. We ended up driving 4 hours to Springfield and back for some specialty parts only to find the portal working when we returned.”

“I can help you there,” Agent S said with a soft smile reaching into her white briefcase and pulling out several thick folders. She laid them out gently on the table and Maddie was unnerved by some of the information: schematics of Fentonworks, past and present financial records, transcripts of public statements. Her shoulders tensed when she saw Jazz and Danny’s names on some of the files. “Toll camera captured your vehicle on the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway at exactly 1:26pm on August 28th. We can confirm you and your husband’s vehicle traveled to Springfield and back via video feeds and credit card statements at 10:45pm that same day and were therefore out of the city all day.”

Maddie suddenly felt very trapped by the woman’s sharp grey eyes as she plucked a piece of paper and pressed it towards Maddie. 

“At 3:18pm, the majority of the residential power in town went out for a period of 2 and a half hours. The cause was determined to be from a massive power surge that blew out the transformer. You may recall being blamed for this outage given your history with previous outages but the news that you were out of town settled that argument. However, I was not convinced.” She pulled out another piece of paper and Maddie bristled to see it was a Casper High attendance sheet.

“Your daughter, Jasmine was at her final summer cram session which ran from 2pm until 5pm. I spoke to her tutors and she never left the whole time and, in fact, stayed late to help a fellow student work through her study materials. But what about your son?” Agent S asked with with a curious smile but her eyes belied the fact that she had her own answers. 

“How dare you spy on my family, on my children,” Maddie hissed, crumpling one of the papers in her fist. “Get out of my house, I will sue the pants off of your organization for this invasion of privacy! Get out!”

“Now Maddie, don’t you want to know how your son started up your Portal?” Agent S asked coyly, that drew Maddie up short. Danny? No, he couldn’t have possibly. He had no interest in their work, in fact, now that she thought about it, Danny had been sick that day. Agent S pulled out a set of blueprints for the Fenton Portal. Some small component inside the Portal was circled.

“You left at approximately 1pm and your daughter presumably left not long after. Phone records indicate Daniel called both Tucker Foley and Samantha Manson. Your neighbor, Mrs. Benson, saw them coming into your house not long after but before the 3pm power outage which I was able to triangulate did in fact originate from your home.” Agent S tapped the circled part of the inner portal mechanisms. “Now did you happen to push the on button in the Portal before plugging it in?”

“On button?” Maddie asked with a dry mouth, overwhelmed by the amount of information being thrown her way. All she could think about was how Danny hadn’t seemed sick when they’d left that afternoon but had looked awful when they returned. Would he have really gone downstairs and messed with the Portal? Had he gotten hurt? Been contaminated down there? Images of Vlad’s sickly visage after his accident flowed through her head. She should have paid more attention but she’d been so excited about the Portal working...

“It’s right here in the blueprints you submitted to the patent office, buried under dozens of other hardware bits. Its small, such a little thing compared to all the moving parts required to open up a dimensional portal. Daniel was a bright boy, his middle school records prove it. A bright mind, friends to impress, no parents around to chastise him... I think you can see where I’m going with this.”

“No, no,” Maddie said, burying her hands in her hair. “No, I’m not. You’re saying -what? - that my teenage son turned on the Portal when we were gone? No, my Danny wouldn’t lie to me about that... Why wouldn’t he say anything?”

“I don’t blame him for not mentioned in because, if my hunch is correct, he was inside the Portal when it turned on, killing him instantly,” Agent S said with a carefully neutral face. “I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news but I’m afraid this haunting has gone on long enough.”

“My child is alive!” Maddie screeched, standing up in her chair. “Danny is alive and healthy and he is not a ghost!”

“I will admit the evidence of how he died is circumstantial but the fact that Danny Fenton is deceased is not.” Maddie fell back into her chair as he legs gave out underneath her. 

She watched the agent put paper after paper in front of her and detailed all sorts of data about her son that Maddie, who lived in the same house as him, had missed. Unusually high ectosignatures picked up by GIW (and their own) detectors, Danny being spotted in some form before most ghost attacks, faked signatures of hers getting him out of nurses’ visits. Maddie barely felt alive herself as she stared at a red light camera photo of her baby sitting atop a light post late, late at night. His eyes were a toxic green color.

“I know this must be distressing as a mother but your child never left that basement, never attended high school and will never achieve his dream of working for NASA.” Agent S said with carefully measured sympathy as she gathered up her papers and put them back in her case. “But you are a brilliant scientist, unlike your husband, you should be able to look past your emotions and see that your child is gone and the ghost he left behind is dangerous.”

“My husband?” Maddie asked blankly, running a finger down Danny’s unnatural photograph.

“I approached Jack two days ago, mistakenly believing he would be the most understanding of you both. He refused to believe the evidence and was, in fact, going to warn your son’s ghost that we planned on taking him. He is safe but he presently being held at one of our facilities until the capture is complete.” Maddie should feel outraged at her husband’s kidnapping but all she could think about was the fact that her son was dead, dead, dead, killed by her own invention over a year ago and she never noticed. How could she not have noticed?

“Daniel’s ghost is extraordinary, not only able to pass as human so accurately for so long but immensely powerful. We need to make sure he doesn’t harm anyone else. Think of his friends who are probably being forced to aid him and keep his death quiet. Think of your husband, your daughter, living in the same house as a dangerous ghost.” Agent S dropped some of her professionalism and plucked the photo of Danny out of Maddie’s hands and replaced it with her own tiny hand. 

“I know this is impossible thing to ask but I must do it anyway, will you help me capture what remains of Danny? There is a chance with his charade exposed, he will be able to move on and so will you. You have been wronged, Maddie. You have been denied the right to process and grieve your child by his own ghost. But a delayed mourning is better than none. Danny’s death is a tragedy but please don’t let it become someone else’s.”

“Maybe he’s not-” Maddie’s breath hitched, “he’s never shown any signs of aggression. Jasmine spoke of benevolent spirits... maybe-” Agent S sighed roughly and retracted her hand to grab another photo from her case. Maddie was surprised when she held up a picture of Phantom. 

“Ignore the glow,” Agent S instructed. “Change his white hair to black, his green eyes to blue. Think of how often Phantom is spotted in your neighborhood, around Casper High. Remember how he always has his hands on your technology,” the agent frowned. “Think of how he grins when he sees you, like he knows something you don’t. Like it all just a big joke you’re not a part of.” Maddie felt like she’d been slapped.

“Your son is dead,” Agent S said more forcefully, throwing the picture of Phantom next to the spooky one of Danny. “And his ghost has taken his place, taunting you, stealing energy from your family, from the portal that killed him. Phantom’s power is increasing too rapidly and soon we won’t be able to contain him. It’s why I was brought in to identify his haunt so that he could be stopped before anyone else died.”

“I will state this plainly, I am giving you the chance to participate in putting your child to rest but you are not required for this operation. If you refuse, you will be confined with your husband until Phantom is taken down. Do not let this monster with your son’s face trick you any more. So I ask again, Maddie Fenton, will you help us stop Phantom from making a mockery of your son’s memory?”

XxX

“Mom! Jazz! I’m home!” Danny announced, kicking off his shoes and grabbing a paper out of his backpack as he walked into the kitchen with a grin. “And I have a present! Jazz’s tutoring paid off, look at this A I got on my history test! Well A- but a solid A-!” 

“Oh... that’s great,” Mom muttered quietly. She was sitting at the kitchen table, not cooking or tinkering with some gadget. Just sitting there quietly, twiddling her thumbs and not looking at him.

“Is everyone okay?” Danny asked, dropping his bag on the floor and walking over to his mother. “I saw Jazz at school but is Dad okay?”

“No, everything is not okay,” she said turning and looking at him with tear-filled eyes. “Someone died, someone I love dearly and I’m not ready to let them go,” she sniffed and wiped at her eyes. “But they've been gone for a long time, even if I’m just hearing about it now. I’m upset but it’s better to know and be grieve than to go on in ignorance, living a lie.”

Danny was about to ask who had died when something was jammed into his neck and he was shocked within an inch of his half life. His body spasmed to escape but his mother was gripping his arm to hold him in place. He transformed unconsciously but that only made it worse. He fell to the floor, ectoplasm leaking off his form as he could barely hold himself together.

“Mom,” he croaked, reaching for her despite everything. She stomped on his hand which was practically goo from such a vicious, destabilizing ectoplasmic shock.

“Don’t you ever call me that,” she hissed through angry tears. “I didn’t want to believe it but the proof is right in front of me you horrible, selfish ghost.” She kicked him in the side and half of him ended up on her boot. “How dare you, how dare you impersonate my son! How dare you string me along all this time, make me look like a fool who had to told that her own child was dead! I bet you just laughed and laughed at our stupid, human ignorance of what your were!”

“‘lease,” he begged through the ectoplasm in his mouth. “I’m still your....”

“My son is dead and he has been for a while,” Mom said, throwing the ecto-taser away from her. Danny vaguely heard the door being kicked in and in his rapidly diminishing vision, he saw black boots and white suits. “With you gone, I can finally come to terms with it and not be tormented by an inadequate replacement.” She turned her back to him. “Get that filth out of my house, I never want to see it again.”

“Of course,” a quiet feminine voice said as his goopy arms were restrained with ghost proof cuffs. “I know this is hard, Maddie but you made the right choice for your family and Danny’s memory. Jack will returned to you within the hour. I spoke to my superiors, for your cooperation, the Institute will take care of declaring Danny dead as well as covering costs for your boy to be laid to rest, the first step in moving on.”

“No, the first step will be removing that duplicitous monster from my home. It’s stolen enough of my baby’s life. Now please leave, I have - I have a funeral to plan.”

[resurrectedclones]

Resurrected Clone AU

An AU that started with the idea that Perfect Clone was aware of what was happening in the events of Kindred Spirits and spiraled into all the clones being resurrected forming a family (including Danny, Jazz, and Flynn), and then each getting adopted by the ancients.

Full timeline under cut.

Kindred Spirits happens with Perfect Clone aware in his pod. x

GiW find and gather up the ectoplasm from the melted Franken Clone.

Vlad dumps the ectoplasm from melted Tiny Clone into the Ghost Zone. x

Destabilized happens

Vlad remakes Perfect Clone, now stable and unable to resist any order Vlad gives him. Vlad orders Perfect Clone to kill Dani, but Perfect Clone is able to break the control Vlad had over him before he can hurt her. This leads to Danny, Dani, and Perfect Clone fighting Vlad, but Perfect Clone is separated from Danny and Dani and is unable to be found. x

Perfect Clone is found by an adult, mistaken for Danny skipping school and taken to Casper. There he runs into Sam and Tucker while Danny is out fighting a ghost. They confront him and the truth comes out. They tell Danny and Perfect Clone is surprised at how happy Danny is to see him alive. x

Perfect Clone changes his name to Liam. x

Liam is reunited with Dani, now called Elle, and lives on the streets with her. x

Liam offers to cover for Danny at school while he’s ghost fighting and runs into Wes who gets suspicious. He also encounters Sidney Poindexter which leads to Danny’s first truce that allows a ghost free access to the living world. x

Tiny Clone eventually reforms in the Ghost Zone and finds his way to the Fenton portal. x

While avoiding Danny’s parents Tiny Clone hides in Jazz’s room and scares her, drawing Danny’s attention. He tries to run but is caught by Danny, who reassures him that he’s safe. x

Tiny is reunited with Elle and Liam. x

Tiny changes his name to Kenny.

During an experiment with a stolen ecto dejecto formula the melted ectoplasm from Franken Clone is covered, causing him to reform.

After escaping the GiW base, Franken Clone sees Elle and Liam together and mistakes it as the set up for Vlad’s plan for him to attack. He is stopped by Elle and Kenny and the situation is explained to him.

Franken Clone changes his name to David.

David finds a place for them to live in the Green Light/Neon district and the clones move in.

Danny asks Sam and Tucker to help him bring back Skeleton Clone, but they’re only able to retrieve a small amount of ectoplasm. It’s not enough to resurrect Skeleton Clone on its own, so they make a plan to steal a clone pod from Vlad.

Danny, Sam, and Tucker steal a clone pod from Vlad without Vlad, or the clones knowing and use it to bring Skeleton Clone back.

Danny surprises the other clones with Skeleton Clone, who changes his name to Jack (Jax to avoid confusion)

A video of someone finding Vlad’s Colorado lab and early cloning notes goes viral and people start to think it’s connected to Phantom.

Elle and Liam get seen in human form wandering around the back alleys of the city and have to use their ghost powers to escape the police and social workers looking for them, creating an urban legend.

Some people see Liam in ghost form and there are a few rumors but more just think he’s Danny with a hood.

Maddie notices Jazz taking the ecto contaminated food out of the fridge and driving off with it one night and follows her. She sees Jazz meeting with Liam and spies on them until Liam notices her and bolts. Maddie tries to chase him, but he disappears down a dead-end alley and she doesn’t know what happened.

Maddie tries to confront Jazz on what happened and asks about Liam but Jazz refuses to tell her anything.

Kenny is seen on camera saving a kid in a ghost fight and it makes the news, drawing Vlad’s attention to the clones.

Vlad’s first attempt at kidnapping one of the clones (probably Kenny) in order to make Danny/Elle/Liam cooperate with him fails, but does reveal the existence of the clones to the general public.

David discovers his Echo power while confronting Vlad.

While out ghost hunting Jack sees Elle and Liam running from Spectra. Vlad (as Plasmius) then shows up and reveals Spectra to be a ghost. After keeping the kids safe from Bertrand, Jack notices that Plasmius does the same replacing swears with desserts as Vlad does and combined with Spectra showing that ghosts can disguise themselves as humans makes him start to think.

Jack explains a few of his worries to Maddie which add to her own worries, and they decide to build a device that can detect ghosts pretending to be human.

At some point Danny finds Flynn in the Ghost Zone and tells him about his parents.

While out exploring, Elle falls through a portal and ends up in a dangerous swamp in the Ghost Zone. She is then saved by Sojourn. He offers to take her to the Center (place for orphaned child ghosts) but on the way he starts to get attached to her.

While at the Center Elle is given a Caretaker to look after her until she’s adopted, but a random portal opens, and the Caretaker is pulled through.

The portal brings the Caretaker to the material world, and due to its lack of knowledge, mistakes human kids as orphaned ghost children. So, they treat them as such, by trapping them all in the school and preventing any adults from getting in. This includes Danny, Sam, Tucker, and the clones except for Elle.

Elle tells Sojourn about the Caretaker being pulled through the portal and when they find out what happened on Earth, they make a plan to rescue the kids. It works but it means the clones are registered as not belonging in the Center, so they are unable to go and be safe there.

Elle is adopted by Sojourn.

Kenny fines Undergrowth as a tiny weed in the woods trying to hide from some hungry deer. Spec scares off the deer, leading to them and Undergrowth getting close.

Eventually Undergrowth is able to grow large enough to gain his power back and offers to make Kenny’s larger form more stable, essentially adopting him. Kenny agrees and during the process, while they’re asleep, Undergrowth invades Amity again.

Kenny wakes up to his new leafy form and sees that Amity is covered in vines and appears to be abandoned. They eventually find Sam trapped in her greenhouse and helps free her as she explains what’s going on. Spec is furious to learn that the person they’ve been looking up to would do something like this and they both go to find Danny. They eventually find him trapped in a cage of power draining vines and start working on freeing him, only for Undergrowth to show up. Spec starts yelling at him and even goes as far as to try and rip out the plants holding his larger form together. This convinces Undergrowth to stop and let everyone go. There may also be some threatening of Vlad to turn the woods outside Amity into a nature preserve.

With Undergrowth just outside the city Vlad becomes more wary of directly attacking the clones. This leads the clones to feel safer being seen out in public.

Jax finds out he can create illusions and uses them to mess with people. His favorite is making himself look like a creepy version of Danny.

Ecton gets wrapped up in a ghost rebellion against Walker and manages to overthrow him. In the process it’s revealed that Walker was the founder of what eventually became the GiW and is Danny’s great-grandfather. This leads to a truce between Walker and Danny.

During Halloween Danny gives Jax a constructive outlet for his obsession by making a haunted house. Fright Knight is summoned to the house and witnesses Jax skill in scaring people, making Fright Knight want to adopt him. Jax is wary of the offer but is also too scared by Fright Knight to say no and Fright Knight starts training him. Eventually Jax starts having fun and forgets why he was worried in the first place, which allows things to go too far. Jax is having too much fun to notice until the other clones get hit by Fright Knight’s sword. He realizes that they need to stop but isn’t sure how to tell Fright Knight. Danny helps him and Fright Knight brings the clones back. After a conversation on appropriate levels of scaring, Fright Knight and Jax begin to bond again.

Pandora learns about Ecton’s rebellion against Walker and goes to investigate. After talking to Ecton and being impressed with all the good he’s done she decides to adopt him.

While watching a ghost fight Liam sees Danny just drop and quickly goes to rescue him. Only to find the person he was fighting was Nocturn and is instantly knocked unconscious as well.

After realizing the dream he’s trapped in isn’t real, Liam wakes up. He confronts Nocturn and notices some inconsistencies between what’s happening and Danny’s previous encounter and Nocturn offers to explain. With a need to know what’s going on he agrees and Danny wakes up to see Nocturn pulling Liam into himself.

Danny fight’s through Nocturn’s dream to rescue Liam only to find that he seems to be enjoying himself. However, before he can figure out what’s going on Nocturn shows up and Danny tries to fight him, but Liam jumps in to explain that Nocturn isn’t a bad guy. He was actually trying to take care of Danny’s health; he just had a hard time relaying that in a way Danny’s obsession would let him accept. Liam also tells Danny that Nocturn offered to adopt him, and Liam accepted.

It is discovered that Vlad has the Crown of Fire and Danny, Sam, and Tucker steal it from him. Danny then ends up with the crown stuck on top of his head in ghost form, marking him King of Ghosts.

It is discovered that the house with the lab from the video that went viral belongs to Vlad and after the authorities find the lab he is placed under investigation. Vlad tries to pay people off but with how public the case is it just makes him look more suspicious. So, he tries to turn to the Fentons for help.

Jack is still suspicious from that night in the alley, so he uses the device to detect ghosts disguised as humans on Vlad and reveals him as Plasmius. Vlad bolts before Jack and Maddie can figure out what to do.

Jack and Maddie take a trip into the Ghost Zone to take some observations but get knocked off course and land near Flynn’s campsite. When they wake up Flynn informs them of where they are and their circumstances, then introduces them to Misery Vex. Jack and Maddie are horrified but have no other choice but to trust ghosts to get them home, in the process many of their beliefs about ghosts are challenged.

Jack and Maddie study an artifact they found during their time trapped in the Ghost Zone and get so invested they don’t notice Jazz struggling from all the stress she’s putting on herself. Eventually Jazz has a meltdown which the artifact responds to and latches onto her, connecting her emotions to the weather.

Danny tries to tell his parents how to help Jazz but they ignore him and lock him in the lab to ‘keep him safe’. Danny uses his ghost powers to get out and goes to help Jazz. He manages to calm her down, but his parents still insist they know the best way to help her when they really don’t and Danny snaps. This results in him activating his power to create portals and he disappears with Jazz into the Ghost Zone.

With no idea where in the Ghost Zone their kids could have gone Jack and Maddie turn to the only person they can think of that could help them, and go searching for Vlad.

Danny takes Jazz to the Far Frozen and it’s revealed that they can’t just remove the artifact because its properties have fused with the nanobots that are still in her from when Vlad pit her and Danny against each other. The only thing they can do is reduce how much power she lets out, but they’ll never be able to get rid of it. The best option is for Jazz to learn to control the powers.

While hiding from the Observants Vortex runs into Jazz training and he agrees to help her in exchange for a safe place to hide. Eventually these training sessions turn into emotional venting sessions and both Jazz and Vortex learn to process their emotions in a healthy way.

That’s everything I have at this point. The next part kind of depends on if it seems believable that Vlad learned his lesson or not. I have a few vague ideas on what I want to happen next but not much is really fleshed out.

[madametamma]

Rewrite Reality trip

For the record, I don’t think this is a bad episode.  In fact there’s quite a bit I really like about it, but I feel like it doesn’t put focus on the right things.  So I want to tweak it.  Mostly the middle.

It begins the same way as the OG episode.  Danny excited for summer break, Freakshow breaks out of the GIW facility with the reality gauntlet, and Danny’s secret identity is exposed to the world on live TV.  The first change I want to make is that instead of Tucker, Sam and Danny banishing the gems away across the country, Tucker manages to take one gem away from the gauntlet and pocket it.  I’m scrapping the cross county search for the gems plot.  As cool as the idea of Danny and friends traveling around looking for cursed objects sounds, I’d rather that plot get it’s own separate episode and not take up the focus here in this one which already has a great hook on it’s own.

Freakshow and Lydia flee, (But dramatically!) Danny escapes the concert with the help of his classmates and tries to get home same as the OG episode.  But now we cut to Valerie.  (You KNOW she should have been in this episode). She wasn’t at the concert because she was covering a shift at Nasty Burger, but she did make it home just in time to see Danny’s secret get revealed on the News.  She is beyond words as to what to make of this but she knows one thing for sure and that’s that she’s got to talk to Danny.

Cut to Jack and Maddie at a lost for words when suddenly the GIW show up at their doorstep, (Not the other parents, or Freakshow yet) At first Jack is excited.  He admires the GIW and is sure they can come to a conclusion about what’s going on.  Nope, instead they treat the Fentons as hostile enemies of the state and they are certain that they’re the ones who experimented on their son to make him half ghost.  Maddie is of course offended at the accusation that she would do something so awful to her kid but the GIW don’t believe her and instead hammer in all the threats she and her husband openly made towards their son and all the seemingly bad things Phantom has done, making Maddie at a lost for words and near tears.  (Instead of the quick 20 seconds of Jazz roasting her parents, I want to really dig into them for their bad parenting).

Danny makes it home but sees his house surrounded by GIW vans.  Jazz helps him and his friends sneak away in the Fenton Blimp.  The GIW see them get away and try to chase after them guns blazing.  Jack yells at them that he’s just a boy but then has a moment of terror when he realizes that his former heroes are going to do the very things he always proclaimed he would do to phantom. 

Before the GIW can chase them THAT’s when Freakshow arrives on the scene.  One of his gems is gone but the gauntlet still has some power.  He wipes out all the agents, turning them into popcorn or something circus related and that’s when the Fenton family is captured.

Danny and friends manage to get away but this time it’s Valarie who just missed him, puts a tracker on his ride, vowing to chase him down.  Danny has an idea of where to go to lay low until they can think up a plan.

Cut to Wisconsin.  Danny knocks on Vlad’s mansion door.

Vlad: “Well Daniel, looks like you’re in a bit of trouble.”

Danny: “No Vlad, YOU’RE in a bit of trouble.  The deal was we don’t spill each others secrets but now I have nothing left to loose.  If I’m going down, nothing’s stopping me from revealing your secret to take some of the heat off me, so you’d better make sure I’m not caught.”

At first Vlad is furious over being blackmailed by the teenager, but he comes up with an idea to make Danny finally renounce his father and also get that reality gauntlet for himself.  He uses his Maddie and Jack programs to make a fake call to Danny.  The AI’s use his parent’s voices to tell him that they don’t love him anymore now that they know he’s half ghost and that he can live with Vlad or wherever he wants so long as they don’t ever see him again.  He’s not a Fenton anymore as far as they’re concerned.  Then they hang up.

Danny is beyond devastated but before Vlad, Sam or Tucker can go to talk with him, That’s when Valerie finally tracks them down.  She shoots at him and Danny fights back, both of them are exhausted, heartbroken, and screaming at each other until they both just break down and apologize, finally hugging it out.

Of course that’s when Freakshow shows up with Danny’s family as hostages, demanding his gem back.  The final showdown of the episode begins...

and that is unfortunately all I got.  Please let me know how you would end it. I think maybe I made this rewrite a little too overcrowded but I wanted to include all of the things I initially really wanted from reality trip as an episode and only partially got. 

[ecto-american]

Hello! If your taking prompts, could you do one where Danny both loses his memory about his family and friends and gets brainwashed by the guys in white that he's a full ghost, then released back into amity park with some faint idea of some connection, but not sure what. Thank you!

I take prompts within reason

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The dust began to fully settle, and the agent squinted through the mask. He tried to pick out that familiar form in the dust, that was trying to fly away as it always did. Escaping justice, but he saw nothing as smoke began to cloud the skies.

“There!” his partner cried out, and he pointed to a limp figure. The ghost they had been hunting, the town menace that began all of this, laid over a bit of rubble, motionless. 

The agent kicked up dust of his own, scrambling to get to the ghost. He could hear his partner following suit, and they rushed towards a ghost that made absolutely no movements. They both, nearly in unison, skidded to a halt right before they could touch him. A flash of light had interrupted their actions. Hearts racing, they watched as this light blinded both of them. By the time it faded, almost as quickly as it had come, they were left looking at...a boy. 

Neither made any movements to do anything, and Phantom (?) made no movements either. The agent hesitantly reached out to grab a handful of black hair that was slowly becoming caked in blood, so very different than the white hair of their target. He lifted his head up, bending over a bit to get a look at the face. The resemblance to Phantom was arguable. Paler, but if given a good hair bleaching, this could be Phantom.

Slowly, his other hand lightly patted the boy’s cheek. Bright green eyes opened halfway, staring up at him in confusion. Unmistakable green eyes that glowed like a ghost’s, like Phantom. They dropped closed, only to snap open once more. Bright blue eyes, looking more like a pair he’d see on a fellow agent, were now looking at him. Confused, scared, dazed. 

“Sir, did you see that?” his partner’s voice was audible. The boy’s eyes closed fully once more. The agent spared a glance at the other agent. He was nodding with one hand pressed to his headset, listening to what their boss was telling him. “Yes, sir...Right away, sir...No, sir...We’ll be there shortly, sir.” He gestured to the teenager. “Pack him up. The boss wants to bring him in for questioning.”

The agent carefully let go of the hair. The boy’s head hung still, and the only audible noise from him was pained, labored breathing. His partner had gone to fetch their vehicle while he stood guard. And before anybody seemed to notice, before most of Amity Park could truly recover from the attack, they had loaded up the mysterious teenager and were already gone.

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His name was Daniel James Fenton. A background check revealed that he was a seventeen year old student at Casper High. The youngest in a family of four, son of Madeline Anne Walker and Jack Harrison Fenton and a brother to Jasmine Elizabeth Fenton. 

He had no criminal record that they could find, though he reportedly got into trouble often at school. Minor things, mostly tardiness and poor grades. A few fights and one instance of pulling a fire alarm. Nothing comparable to the criminal rap sheet of Danny Phantom.

It was the longest rap sheet any agent had seen, literally pages and pages long. Thousands of charges for attempted murder, attempted arson, arson, attempted kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, and more. Their file on Phantom was surprisingly long, but it was a file that had been compiled over the years by the observant eyes of a select few agents who had studied footage and that elusive ghost for years. 

But that flash of light changed everything they thought they knew about Danny Phantom. An entire file that had blanks had odd answers that filled in. However, those answers couldn’t come from Phantom.

“So am I supposed to just believe that you happen to not remember anything about who you are?” Agent B voiced his skepticism to the teenager who had since been changed into a GIW prisoner’s uniform, a pure white loose jumpsuit accompanied by a standard anti-ghost collar around the neck and wrists. 

This teen, nobody knew what or how to refer to him at this point, just stared at him with wide, scared eyes. He shifted in his seat, leaning his elbows on the wooden table that separate them, moving his hands a bit as he spoke.

“I-I don’t know what you want from me?” he croaked. He sniffled a bit, and he almost looked like he might cry. Agent B had to admit that the kid seemed to be a good actor, but it was bullshit. He wasn’t fully sure of this situation, but Phantom was always a sly and manipulative ghost. Always one step ahead. Not this time. “I told you what I know.”

“No, you haven’t,” Agent B spoke harshly. “Who are you, and what are you doing in Amity Park?”

“I don’t know who I am!” the teen exclaimed. “I can barely remember what Amity Park is! I think I live there? Or...like family lives there? But I don’t know their names.”

“You’re lying to me,” Agent B accused him. The waterworks truly began, but that never worked on Agent B. It was hard to really feel sorry for a ghost that hurt so many people through selfish actions. 

“No, I’m not!” The teen put up a pathetic act. The tears were actually a good sign, in Agent B’s opinion. It meant that the ghost was possibly at their breaking point. “Don’t I get a phone call? I’m supposed to have the right to a lawyer too.”

Agent B stared coldly at him.

“No. Those rights don’t apply to ghosts.”

He stared at the agent, absolutely shocked at that statement. He said nothing, and Agent B stood up. 

“Take him back,” Agent B ordered. “Let’s give him another few days in solitary.”

The teen didn’t even utter a word as he was escorted out. Soon as he left, a woman slipped into the room. Unlike the other agents, she wasn’t in a suit, but rather a plan white t-shirt and white jeans, with black shoes and a white lab coat. 

“Anything?” she asked. Agent B shook his head. “You know, amnesia can last months, even years.” Agent B knew that look in her eye, exactly what she was leading up to asking him.

“If he doesn’t remember anything by Friday, you can have him Monday for experiments,” he promised her.

Her eyes shined happily.

“You have no idea what kind of scientific discoveries that boy has hidden in him,” she told him. Agent B simply shrugged. 

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“Release him?” the scientist looked crestfallen at the news. “But there’s so much more to discover, so many more experiments, he has so much information he could tell us!”

“We can’t afford to keep him in custody much longer,” Agent B told her firmly. “People are starting to question where Phantom is. Of course, Fenton too. It won’t take long before people become suspicious and begin to investigate.”

The scientist frowned. In the six months of captivity, she had learned so much. Phantom was this odd human-ghost hybrid. How this happened, she nor her team could determine, other than that this was a recent event and not a natural state for him. The ghost’s continued lack of memory could provide little clues. She had been hoping to spark his memory, in the pursuit of getting some possible hints or theories. But she’d only get a blank stare.

“He’ll say something,” she argued. “Reveal everything. I know, legally, we didn’t violate any laws or anything. He’s a ghost. But that town thinks he’s a hero. It’ll cause a media outrage.”

“I know,” Agent B replied with a sigh. “We may just put him down and keep a close eye on him to ensure his memory doesn’t return, but it also may not really matter. It’s very doubtful that he told anybody about this. He couldn’t have, especially his parents. Had his parents known, well...you know the Fentons. They’d have experimented on him themselves. Fenton will eventually be classified as a runaway. But Phantom’s too well known to disappear forever.”

“We can’t kill him,” she told him almost immediately. “I want to do more experiments later. Everything will change if he dies fully. There’s just too much more to learn.

And that look in her eye returned as she gave him a hopeful smile. Agent B raised an eyebrow at her. 

“What are you thinking?” he asked. 

“He’s already lost so much of his memory,” she began. “What if he...just simply forgot that he had a human half?”

The agent paused as he thought carefully.

“Let’s discuss it with the higher ups, and see how they feel,” he replied. 

Their request was granted. 

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Phantom stared nervously at the agents that watched him with suspicious eyes. He took a few cautious steps forward in fluffy snow. More was falling thickly, gathering quickly on the ground and on the trees of the woods that they had brought him too. The ghost glanced around, before turning to look at the agents. 

They didn’t stop him. They made no movements to draw their weapons. The pair just...watched.

He took this chance, and he shot off into the sky, as fast as he could. No sounds of blasters firing after him, no shouting, only silence and agents that blended into the snow. While his memories of his experience were limited, they were horrifying, and yet they simply let him...leave.

Whatever. He wasn’t going to question that much, but he was already asking himself where he was supposed to...go.

Phantom tried to grasp for his memories for anything of use. Anything that didn’t involve his time there, that could be a place he could go to, a person he could find. What he could remember was so shaky at best. 

He saw a town in the distance, the city lights glowing faintly despite the heavy snowfall. Perhaps figuring out where he was, what the date was, was a good start.

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There was something wrong with stealing, he absolutely knew that much. But he, of course as a ghost, had no money, and he also knew that he couldn’t walk anywhere without drawing attention. So with a heavy heart, he stole a pair of jeans, a sweatshirt and a beanie hat from a department store before walking along the streets.

Judging by all the signs of the city and what he could find, he was in a town called Lakewood, within Washington state. Phantom didn’t know how he knew, but he knew that this was not where he was from, and that he was very, very far from where he was meant to be. 

He now stood in a gas station, trying to figure out what candy he was going to, sadly, end up stealing. Phantom hated it, hated it, hated it. But maybe he just needed to eat something, to jog his memory, to understand what he had to do. There was something in his gut, telling him that he was missing something, something critical and important about him. 

His attention went to a display of free brochures, and he absentmindedly read through them. One caught his eye. 

Amity Park: America’s Most Haunted City! Visit Today!

The headline hit him in the gut. Despite ghosts not needing to breathe, he grabbed the brochure, ripping it open to immediately see his own face staring back at him. One of the town’s main attractions, the famous ghostly superhero Danny Phantom. 

Amity Park was his home. The memories of saving the town flooded him, and he began to openly cry. That was his purpose. Helping others. Protecting them. That town...that town was home.

“Uh, kid?” the clerk asked, obviously confused. “Are you alright?”

Phantom didn’t answer him. He phased out of his stolen attire, earning a surprised shriek from the worker and the other customers. He ignored them all, and he flew through the ceiling as fast as he could for Amity Park, Illinois.

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He arrived some time later, still clutching tightly onto that brochure. The second he was within the city limits, there was an instant sense of self. His memories were not failing him. This was home. This was where he was meant to be, and these were the people he had sworn to protect and care for.

Why? Phantom couldn’t tell you a true reason why. It just was what he knew he did. The paper in his hands proved it.

No sooner than he arrived was he able to get straight back to work, as there was a ghost attacking the city.

[darks-ink]

Fic Masterlist 1: Events

Apparently my last masterlist/archive got too link-heavy so I’m splitting it up in three parts! wowie. Here’s #1, dedicated to fics written for all kinds of events! (and yeah, these are all Danny Phantom fics lol. the other guys get their own post)

Last updated: November 3rd 2021 Links: 150/250

Ectoberweek 2018

AO3 series

Witching Hour: Maddie set out to learn more about the Witching Hour, but instead she learns a little more about Amity Park’s most mysterious ghost. [family, bonding] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Disappearance: Series rewrite in which Danny had his accident all alone—and then disappeared into the Ghost Zone. Continued in Harvest. [hurt/comfort, family, identity reveal] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Necromancy: Danny didn’t survive the accident, and his ghost never stumbled out of the Portal either. But nothing can keep Sam away from her best friend. [angst] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Corruption: One must learn from the past to change the future. [angst] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Harvest: Vlad learns about, and from, Danny. Sequel to Disappearance. [hurt/comfort, identity reveal] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Unearthed: Danny Fenton’s body is found, but the boy never died. Or did he? Continued in Buried, basis for Disinterred. [crime, hurt/comfort, identity reveal] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Spells – Harry Potter crossover: Danny has always known that, unlike his friends, he has no magic. So when he tries again, years later, the results are rather… unexpected. Prequel to Weirdward, rewritten as Spells 2.0. [friendship] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Ectoberweek 2019

AO3 series

Fangs: Danny Fenton, half-ghsot and teenager, enjoys his first day of school, and meets some future friends. Continued in The Visit. [friendship] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Stalker: Phantom is not Fenton. If only Danny’s friends believed him when he said as much. [angst, hurt/comfort] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Electricity: Electricity is just one of the many powers Danny gets access to but, like all others, it requires a bit of figuring out. [humor] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Artifact: After the Reality Gauntlet is destroyed, Danny is ready to spend the rest of his summer relaxing. But he keeps waking up to the same day, over and over again. [hurt/comfort, family, identity reveal] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Grave Robber: The GIW, tipped off by an anonymous caller, investigate Vlad Master’s mansion, where they discover a very special ghost. [hurt/comfort] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Exorcism: Sure that Danny was suffering from overshadowing ghosts, Maddie purges his system of all ectoplasm. But he still didn’t seem to get any better. [angst] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Ectoberweek 2020

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Fog:  Valerie Gray had always been able to See. See ectoplasm, see spirits, all that fun stuff. By the time she entered high school, she was fairly sure she'd seen just about everything there was to see. Until, one day, Danny Fenton changed. [friendship] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Pulse: Sam and Tucker attempt to deal the change of their best friend after his accident in the lab. [friendship] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Rewind: After changing the past and altering the timeline, Danny is forced to stay in a world where he was never born. [family, found family] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Darkness:  Danny, still new to being half-human, finds himself in a room with someone almost like him: a half-ghost. Sequel to Antonym. [identity reveal - sorta kinda] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Reanimation:  What started as a plan to stabilize the Phantom-like ghost they found under Masters' control somehow spiraled completely out of control. And, quite frankly, Agent O wasn't sure he minded. Sequel to Grave Robber. [found family, hurt/comfort] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Glow Sticks: Later, Valerie would worry about the implications, about how it might affect her. But she was here to have a normal evening, for once in her damn life, and that was exactly what she was going to do. [friendship, identity reveal] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Cloak: The trio come up with a set of matching Halloween costumes. Sequel to Third Time (’s a Charm). [friendship] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Ectoberweek 2021

AO3 series

Boo!: Intent on pulling a joke on his son, Jack discovers an unexpected secret. [humor, identity reveal] [Tumblr] [AO3]

Pumpkin: art piece [Tumblr]

Cobwebs: An unexpected visitor graces Sam's room. [alternate half-ghost(s)] [Tumblr] [AO3]

Insect: art piece [Tumblr]

Echo: That morning, when Danny came down, he no longer sounded like himself. [implied identity reveal] [Tumblr] [AO3]

Summoning: The trio discusses the possibility of summoning Phantom. [friendship] [Tumblr] [AO3]

Blood Moon: art piece [Tumblr]

Phic Phight 2019

AO3 series

Captivity: The Wisconsin Ghost. Plasmius. Whatever name they call him, Maddie has him captured now. [identity reveal] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Dog Days: Jack Fenton thought all ghosts were evil, until he met a certain ghost dog. [fluff] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Cacoethes: Danny was raised by two ghost-hating parents. Yet, somehow, he befriends not one but two ghosts. [hurt/comfort, friendship] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Distortion: He’s flying. Or is he? [mystery, supernatural] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Unveiled: Jack finds a hidden lab in Vlad’s mansion. But why had it been kept a secret from him and Maddie? [hurt/comfort, family, identity reveal] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Rise Above Myself: Danny is off to college, leaving Vlad in charge of keeping ghosts out of Amity Park. [hurt/comfort] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Grounded: Valerie is underground, and she can’t remember how she got there. Her suit has no information to offer her, either. [hurt/comfort, identity reveal, alternate half-ghost(s)] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Unseen: After getting hit by his parents’ newest invention and being unable to shift back to human form, Danny is forced to go to school as Phantom. [humor, post-reveal] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Phic Phight 2020

AO3 series

Antonym: When the Fentons fire up their newly invented Ghost Portal, it unexpectedly spits out a kid. But why does he keep insisting he’s a ghost? [family] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Synonym: No matter how she tried, Sam couldn’t convince Danny to go back into the Portal. So the world would have to settle for her, no matter how temporarily. [angst, alternate half-ghost(s)] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Naturalistic Observation: The Fentons take a new spin on ghost research by observing a very special game of dodgeball. [fluff] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Third Time (‘s a Charm): Why go through the ordeal of being half-ghost alone if you can do it with your best friends? [friendship, alternate half-ghost(s)] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Parasite: Vlad had given up on being freed from Plasmius’ grip ages ago. All he wanted, now, was for Plasmius’ reign to end. Before he could do too much damage. [angst] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

To Be: After Danny’s inhibitors break during chemistry class, his fellow students and even his teachers fight to make him feel accepted. [fluff, post-reveal] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Of Tweets and Twats: Amity Park’s constant ghost troubles finally get it on the radar of the internet. And boy, are they unimpressed. [humor, Twitter-fic] [AO3]

Self-Perception: A ghost’s appearance is based on their self-image. How they see themselves. So when you’ve been told your entire life that ghosts are monsters, well… That does things to one’s appearance, that’s for sure. [hurt/comfort, identity reveal] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Parental Woes: Humans form families of flesh and blood, while ghosts form theirs based on connections in their cores. But what does that mean for a half-ghost? [family, hurt/comfort, identity reveal] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Got My Reasons: Maddie and Jack find Phantom heavily injured in the GAV and patch him up. [angst, hurt/comfort, family] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Living So Dangerous: Phantom had tried to kill her. It was undeniable. Now she just had to end him before he could finish the job. [hurt/comfort, friendship] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Phic Phight 2021

AO3 series

Reversal: Sometimes Valerie wished she could show Phantom what it was like to be her. She doubted that he would care--the ghost only thought about himself--but the roleswap would at least annoy him, surely. [identity reveal] [Tumblr] [AO3]

Spark: Danny discovers he isn't the only one in Amity Park with ghostly traits. [alternate half-ghost(s)] [Tumblr] [AO3]

Ephemeral: Tucker Ghouley, hoping for a quiet patrol for once, finds his peace disturbed by the sudden appearance of three half-ghosts from alternate universes. How is he meant to get them back? [friendship, alternate half-ghost(s)] [Tumblr] [AO3]

Christmas/Holiday Truce

Warmth – Truce 2018: Team Phantom celebrate their ghost-free Christmas. [friendship, fluff] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Recovery – Truce 2018: Dani and Vlad celebrate their first Christmas as a family. [family, fluff] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Just To Be Seen By My Eyes – Truce 2019: After receiving painting after painting from a mysterious ‘DP’, Jack just wished to know who it was that kept making those beautiful creations. But, as he discovers, sometimes you’re better off not knowing. [family] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

What We Are – Truce 2020:

 Vlad Masters, young half-ghost, finally meets his uncle. And discovers that the man is a half-ghost, just like him. [roleswap AU] [Tumblr] [AO3] [FFN]

Phango

How Rare And Beautiful It Is (To Even Exist) – Phango19: The Trio look back on the years they’ve known each other, and the way they came together as a family. [hurt/comfort, family, friendship] [AO3] [FFN]