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The club's lights rhythmically danced over her roommate's face as they sheepishly set their drink down and gathered their things, "Thanks, Jazz. I owe you a night out."

Just Jazz explaining to Dick:

“Hey. My name’s Jazz. I saw someone slip something in your drink but didn’t manage to get to you to warn you before you drank it. You’re currently on my couch in my roommate and my’s apartment. Do you want to call someone to pick you up? Or let them know that you’re okay at least?”

“Yeah, let me call one of my brothers. How did you notice? From the sounds of it, you were across the club or something.”

“Yeah, pretty much,” she said before turning sheepish. “I had clocked you out of the corner of my eye and mistook you for my little brother for a split second less than a minute prior so you were still on my radar when it happened.”

She was let in without issue. From Jazz's body language Cass only read concern. And relief that someone had arrived to help. Good. Hopefully she really was just a good samaritan.

Jazz: Hey. He's on the couch with a bucket and a pint of water. If you want to wait here to wait for him to sober up a bit that's fine. Or I can help you get him to your car.

She was being entirely honest which made Cass feel much better about this.

Cass: Hmm. Waiting a bit would be good. How did you see it?

Jazz flushed and looked a little embarrassed. Interesting.

Jazz: He looks really like my little brother. So I was paying attention. And then I saw them slip powder in his drink. So I had to step in you know?

Cass smiled softly a Jazz. She w was genuinely just doing the right thing.

Cass: Well. We owe you then. Thank you. For saving my brother.

Jazz: No! No debts owed. I just did the right thing!

Cass grinned and wandered over to her brother. Jazz was a nice woman. Very attractive. And seemed maybe a little attracted to her? Maybe she could get a date?

Cass: Hmm. Let me at you coffee? In a few days. When Dick is better.

Jazz flushed a fetching shade of pink. It really made her freckles and eyes stand out.

Jazz: Sure. Um. Here's my card. It has my number and email. So th can text me!

Dick: Cass! Cass! Yer flirtin? M sick, n yer flirtin!?!

Cass laughed as her brother, even in this state became a nuisance.

Cass: Jazz is pretty. And she saved my brother. Your knight deserves a reward yes?

Jazz flushed even more and made a little embarrassed sound.

Cass: Cute!

Jazz: You're gonna kill me. Stop it! You're cute! I'm all... Y'know.

Bruce: What happened?

Cass: Dick was roofied. Jazz Fenton was not able to intervene in time. Took him to her place for safety. Got him to call for help. Kept him on the sofa with water and a bucket. Genuine. Did not recognise us as Waynes.

Bruce:... She didn't?

Cass: From Illinois. Here for college. Probably not caught up in celeb news. Or doesn't care for it.

Bruce: She was just in the right place at the right time?

Cass: Yes. Caring woman. Has a younger brother, who apparently resembles Dick. Hence her watching him. She never lied. She is cute. I am taking her on a date to pay her back.

Bruce:.... Date? Why a date?

Jazz: Yours too?

Caas: Hmm. Eldest, middle brother and not legally a sister!

Jazz: Danny and Ellie both turned up. Dan is still on parole. So he can't leave Illinois.

Cass: Ah. Well, the second and youngest two didn't bother?

Jazz: You have so many siblings! It's bad enough with four of us! Danny and Ellie are chaotic enough for several each though...

Cass: All of mine are the same. We should run and hide?

Jazz: Hmm. Set them on each other?

Their son got caught up in a plot via a Supervillain, and he and a bunch of other teen heroes are trapped in a room slowly filling with water. The Supervillain is broadcasting the footage to the world, and just letting it play. Forcing heroes to watch their mentees die.

The teen heroes can't get out.

Until their own son, Danny, takes a deep breath and orders them all behind him. That he can do something. But they'll have to handle the rest.

Then, Danny screams.

The wall is blown clean off.

The teen heroes swoop in to drag him along, and they leave the room.

What the teens don't know, however, is that the cameras throughout the entire facility are recording and broadcasting as they come into view. Apparently, the Supervillain had accounted for this and wanted to broadcast them dying from other traps.

But the professional teen heroes are doing a great job clearing everything out.

Danny is...looking unwell.

Jack and Maddie are concerned. They didn't know he was a Meta, so he definitely didn't practice that power; had he pushed himself too hard?

Then the teen heroes notice and start asking.

Danny answers.

He's terrified of his parents finding out he's a Meta. He has a contingency to run away if they do. He says his parents are only focused on their inventions and hunting a certain group of interdimensional beings. That because of his abilities and Ecto-contamination, their weapons keep hurting him and they refuse to get rid of them, so he clearly knows what they value more.

That they might think he's possessed and harm him to "fix" him.

That he has nightmares about waking up on the operating table in their basement, cut open with his organs missing.

That whenever he sees his mother holding a knife or his father holding a gun, he has to fight the urge to run for safety.

And Jack and Maddie, being stared down by Black Canary and Green Arrow (who had been sent to comfort but are now bracing to protect their own son from them), feel like someone has carved out their own organs.

They have to be better.

Since he knows that he could get mugged, he just becomes intangible and invisible while listening to some loud music on his phone.

Unfortunately for him, his control on his Invisibility keeps slipping when he gets lost in his music, and the people of Gotham keep seeing a semi-translucent ghost man walking around at night aimlessly.

Some thugs think it’s just a meta with invisibility and try to mug him, but pass right through and he disappears completely. This convinces them that he is a ghost, since having both invisibility, and intangibility would be too big a coincidence. Not to mention he never reacts to them whatsoever.

The Bat’s get word that a Ghost has been stalking the streets of Gotham, and he looks scarily like Bruce Wayne from the little they have been able to see from him. Now Batman thinks his dad may have come back as a ghost.

This kind of outfit, of course, lends further credence to the theory that this is Thomas Wayne’s ghost, cursed to wander the crime ridden streets in which he died.

One night Danny had a little accident as he was leaving the embalming lab to get home. He was actually pretty annoyed about it. He swore the new guy had it out for him, with how he just happened to be carrying old Mrs Smith’s drainage when Danny popped in to say good night and just happened to spill some of it all down the front of Danny’s second best dress shirt and just happened to not get a single drop on himself.

Danny is thrilled his little starlight is learning new powers. To celebrate, both of them dress up real nice and hit the town, taking full advantage of their ghost abilities to make the most of it. They get some ice cream, see a movie, freak out some tourists, scare the shit out of the Joker, mess around near the clock tower, and eventually calm down enough to enjoy the night air through a long walk.

Ellie is giggling and skipping ahead of him, taking advantage of the empty streets to freely shift her form every other block. With one step, her hair is twice as long and sparkles with an unnatural gleam. The next, her dress has turned bright green and the flowers stitched onto the hem wriggle and dance in tune with their blasting music. Danny calls her back when she gets too far, and when Ellie turns around, all of a sudden she looks like a boy with a suit similar to his and an adorable pixie cut.

Danny just sighs and takes his daughter’s hand. He knows that one day, when her powers are more developed, Ellie will truly cause him a royal headache with all the trouble she’ll get up to using her powers. But right now, right here, he’s just glad to have proof that Ellie is becoming her own person. She’s thriving in ways he never will, and that fact alone comforts both of them. Ellie isn’t just a clone anymore. She’s his daughter, and he’ll humor her till the end.

It brings to mind the old tales of changeling. Fae children left where human children were taken from. Or perhaps, like cuckoo birds, fae children who steal a human child’s place. It was… It was seeing himself replaced. His father laughing, playing, unknowing in his adoration of what he believed was his son. The child in Bruce had screamed in horror.

The man in Bruce knows his Father is not unknowing.

At least… he desperately hopes so. It is impossible to tell yet what the ghost of Thomas Wayne is actually SEEING. The world as it is? As it was? Something else, beyond Bruce’s human sight? He’ll need Constantine’s help. Everything in him is trying to fight calling him.

It takes all his strength just to say the words out loud. To ask Clark for help, all the way over in Metropolis City, but Bruce… he can’t. He can’t. He searches the city for signs of his Mother. Like everyone else looking finds nothing. Was she not worthy of a return? Did she not earn some impossible goodbye?

What God would separate his parents? Would cruelly tear them from each other’s arms? Is his Father looking for her? For him? He found him. Is it now his wife he searches the streets for? Imagining her around the next street corner, some function or charity, a dear friends house for a chat?

Or was he pulled back by the Fae Child. Yanked from his rightful sleep, to play house, by the willful demands of a magically powerful child? Did he stand above his grave and wonder where he was? One moment trying desperately to protect his family, the next a graveyard? The world changed. The endless questions haunt Bruce.

Ha. “Haunt”. He’s begun to hate that word. Trapped. His Father isn’t “haunting” anything. His Father has been TRAPPED by this city and a child that Shape-shifts like water flows. Has Gotham not asked enough from his parents? Did they not already pay, for the crime of caring, in blood? Behind him Damian is less practicing his stances, as he is wrathfully hacking away at a training dummy.

Bruce continues to type at the bat-computer, gives him his privacy as he works through his emotions. The disrespect to his grandfather’s spirit. The lose and hurt he is feeling. Damian has never gotten to even meet Thomas Wayne. Known him only as stories and other people’s memories. Paintings upon walls. Old journals.

Beautiful but empty things.

The spaces outlining where a man once stood. A great man. A kind one. One who would have loved him fiercely and been endlessly proud to call him his grandson. One he now sees played a puppet along the filthy streets he died on. Sees at the mercy of forces unknown, to ends unknowable.

Who sees it hurting his family.

Alfred is nearly a ghost himself these days. He has caught him staring at his parent’s portrait so many times. A truly lost expression on the man’s face. When he had thought it a hoax he had been offended but now that it… it is likely REAL? There were so many things left unsaid. Things they wished they could share with his parents.

It is grief ripped anew.

His Father… He had told him he had done a good job. The look on his face excited and melancholy like he was remembering the escapades of Bruce’s youth. When mastering something meant then turning around to show off to his parent’s. Was he proud? Is he?

Bruce is afraid to ask. Afraid to know.

But he will not let his Father be trapped in the city that killed him. Cursed to wander the city of curses. For all he loved this city, Thomas Wayne earned a peaceful rest. Deserved to sleep along side the wife who he loves and loves him more than anything but their son. To dream of dancing and stars and peaceful afternoons, in whatever comes after. Not this. His Father does not deserve this. And Bruce?

He is going to make this right.

Batman wakes up to a woman who looks like his mother applying first aid with steady hands while complaining about “self-sacrificing idiots not knowing their limits.  How much good do they think they’re gonna do after pushing themselves to a point where they can’t do anything.  At least Ellie didn’t inherit that.”

Bruce is still a little out of it from blood-loss or whatever, but he manages to absorb an important detail: her name is Ellie.  The little sister he never got to meet is named Ellie.

After Sam realizes Batman is conscious, she starts talking to him.  She says a lot of things like “don’t you dare die!” And “I know your work is important, but you can’t just run yourself into the ground like that” and even “as much as the realms would love to have you, you will not be showing up until you’re old and gray.“  She might be redirected some of her frustrations with Danny over the years.

Bruce makes a small choked noise before managing to say “understood,” in a relatively even voice.  

It wasn’t much but Sam caught it, and Now she’s alarmed because Batman doesn’t do shit like that; what happened to him?  Was if fear gas?  No, he’d have an antidote for that.  Did he get hit with some new kind of chemical weapon?  Shit, now she feels bad for yelling at him.  

There could be so many interactions where Danny, Sam, and Ellie are totally oblivious.

You could have all three seeming to be ghosts because Sam is heavily liminal, and just popping up at random intervals.

Sam and Damian bust the same dogfighting ring and work together. Damian rescues a box of puppies from the breeder that was supplying the ring. Sam calms some of the dogs that didn’t make it enough to lead them to the ghost zone.

Jason gets pulled in off the street for a quick lecture on the aspects of self care and health that work differently for the undead. Danny asks him to come to him with any questions or concerns he has going forward.

You could have the Bats learn (correctly or incorrectly) that the Waynes reincarnated, and alternating between wanting to know them and not wanting to drag them into things when they seem to be living peacefully.

Danny’s apartment ends up becoming a safe Haven for the Bats after the first couple of times he finds one injured and can’t just do nothing. They can come to him for patch jobs with no judgement, or just for company that doesn’t ask much of them on bad days. Being able to provide the kind of safe place he would have liked to have when he was a hero gives him a sense of contentment and peace.

For all that Batman is good at putting on a strong front when he’s out and about, the poor guy seems so lost and uncertain when he gets somewhere safe enough to drop the act, so Danny tries to be extra kind and gentle with him because he knows what it’s like to have to put on a brave face. (Danny doesn’t realize that Batman is different around him)

Batman may project stoicism, but at his core, he’s someone who cares a lot.

I’m still imagining Danny being gentle and supportive with all of the Bats. He tells them things he would’ve liked to hear as Phantom. (You are so strong and so brave and so good. You are doing enough. It’s okay to rest sometimes.)

Sam is not the touchy feely type, but she’s getting attached, too. No mushy stuff, but anyone who actually manages to seriously hurt one of the Bats will briefly disappear under mysterious circumstances and turn back up severely traumatized.

Ellie doesn’t take long to decide all of the Bats are family, now. She pesters Jason for shoulder-rides (He’s so tall). She is thrilled when Nightwing enables her need to climb and/or swing from everything (she could fly, but that’s not the same).

She made Tim promise that if he ever becomes a supervillain She can be his right hand man because fuck the gender binary (he was to busy laughing at a kid saying “fuck the gender binary” to figure out a tactful way to change the subject).

Ellie occasionally interrupts patrol to show Robin where she saw a family of opossums (almost always in places a normal child couldn’t reach/shouldn’t go).

Black Bat is invited to play ballerinas (even if they’re really playing warrior princesses undercover as ballerinas).

Ellie teams up with Steph to sneak some ice cream (they didn’t really need to sneak, but it was fun).

“Is it weird that we’re so protective of these random strangers?”

“It doesn’t FEEL weird, but it seems like maybe it should?”

And then both of them shrug and move on because neither has a strong understanding of what normal is anyway.

They don’t know about their past lives, but they are subconsciously influenced by them. Like, the reason Danny panicked and disappeared at that first meeting with Batman instead of just explaining that he works at a morgue was because something deep down realized that showing himself to Bruce in this state would cause him pain and wanted to shield him.

The placement of the red gems and pearls wasn’t intentional, but it also wasn’t coincidental. Clockwork gave them the present to give to Bruce, and they didn’t even think to question it because it just felt right.

If Sam and Danny feel the odd urge to spoil the Batkids rotten, they probably just attribute it to their own time as teen heroes. (Subconscious be like “GRANDBABIES!”)

They get along with Lady Gotham right away, not realizing that she’s already an old friend.

I think it would be funny to have Tucker’s visit coincide with the Duul Aman exhibit going to the Gotham Museum, and for one of the Bats to stumble across Danny and Sam teasing him about it.

Batman paused in a shadowy alcove at the sound of Martha and Thomas Wayne’s laughter. He peered down and saw them standing with a man he didn’t know.

“You both suck.” The stranger grumbled petulantly.

“Aw, come on Pharaoh, You have to admit it’s a little funny,” Thomas said with a cheeky grin.

“I just don’t like thinking about that life. There were a lot of things that the me of now isn’t proud of.” The man sighed in a way that spoke of old regrets that still ached at times, even after having largely made piece with them. Thomas and Martha sobered at the admission, and their eyes became a bit more sympathetic.

“Duul Aman wasn’t one of the worse leaders history had to offer. He made some positive change for his people,” Martha offered.

“Nobody becomes the best version of themselves by being raised to believe they’re a god,” the man said.

“Fair enough, but at least you’ve got a couple of things to be proud of, right?” Thomas Wayne said with a shit-eating grin.

“Making Ras Al Ghul eat it was pretty sweet,” the stranger said with a chuckle. “Though you won’t find records of that accomplishment. The jerk must have outlived me.”

Batman’s eyes widened behind his cowl. He considered following the three, but he really needed to go try and keep Catwoman away from the new exhibit.

Just, Constantine and Zatanna standing there whispering to each other.

“What the actual fuck is going on in this cesspit??”-Constantine

“Does it looks like I know any more than you do, John? This shouldn’t be possible!”-Zatanna

“Are you two ok?”-Nightwing

“No.”-Z&C

“…ok then, sorry I asked.”- N

They get Deadman over and he’s the one that tells him that’s the new Ghost King.

Constantine: Your bloody guess is as good as mine.

Zatanna: We tested for both at once. Both sets of tests came back positive. Neither of us understands how this is possible.

Batman: *a very particular microexpression that usually means he’s going to be more of a pain in the ass than usual*

Constantine: *casts spell to make Deadman visible*

If his family wasn’t so full of overly dramatic people with too many skills and too little sense, he could have already told them what’s going on. Unfortunately, his charges are all so patently absurd that anything involving emotions has to be handled in very precise fashions. Otherwise they’ll hurt each other in ways difficult to repair, disappear into other dimensions, or become dictators.

The first relates to Dani being disappointed when she realized she wasn’t going to make it back in time for Bruce’s birthday. I think it would be funny for Dani to randomly turn up at some point with a late birthday present that’s kind of out there. Probably some weird thing she found in her travels.

Could be anything from a little kitschy knickknack from some small, obscure country to a really weird object from another realm, but I think the weirder the better. Like, this little girl randomly shows up, enthusiastically hands Bruce a bizarre item that she found somewhere, and then disappears with no explanation.

I guess it could also be some Fenton Works equipment paired with a mysterious mention of how “Grandma and Grandpa fixed the Specter deflector so it prevents overshadowing without hurting any ghost the wearer touches.” I just find the option of Bruce being left holding something that looks like either a weird rock formation or some kind of fungus or egg attached to a stalagmite with no idea what to do with it funnier.

On the one hand, it’s a gift from his ghostly little sister. On the other hand he has no idea what it is or if it’s dangerous in some way the ghost child didn’t realize.

The second thought I had is about Deadman being the one who has answers. In the cartoon, the ghosts all knew who and what Danny was. Apparently the creation of a half-ghost is hot gossip in the zone. Most of them don’t bring his condition to the awareness of humans. Apart from the mutually assured destruction situation with Vlad, the closest any of the ghosts come to using Danny’s secret identity against him is when Walker makes life really difficult for him by launching a smear campaign and stirring up anti-ghost sentiment in Amity Park.

I kind of headcanon that spreading private matters of the dead amongst the living is something ghosts just don’t do. They gossip amongst themself, and they’ll even chat with living folks about things that aren’t private for the ghosts involved, but they don’t air ghosts’ secrets to the living. It’s not exactly a moral thing, it’s just how they do. They just don’t tend to have any interest in doing so. The only reason it even came up with Danny and Vlad is because they’re both half human.

That said, the fact that Danny, Sam, and Ellie are reincarnations and seems to be trying to reconnect with people from their previous lives might mean that talking to Bruce about their history might not register as “telling the living about a ghost’s private business.” He wouldn’t broadcast it to the world or tell random people, but he can clear up a misunderstanding with their son.

So Deadman tells the tale of Danny Fenton/Phantom as he knows it. Basically it’s an overview of the broad strokes of Danny’s superhero career and how he became king. It is probably incomplete and not entirely accurate because Deadman wasn’t there for any of it and learned most (if not all) of what he knows from stories that had been told and re-told several times before reaching him.

 The Fentons have created a machine! A wonderful machine that will reveal a ghost’s true form! So that everyone will see their trickery! They’ll see that the monsters they really are! 

 Now, to know what all went wrong, one would have to know some things about the ghost zone, and more specifically the area the Fentons had managed to punch through to. 

 For one, ghosts do not age like humans. Oh they might take a form similar to that of their death, which may appear as an adult or teen or something similar, but with how they can only die by the complete destruction of their core, theoretically a ghost could live forever once formed. 

 In fact, the equivalent of eighteen years for a ghost was one-hundred realms-years dead. And those years don’t always sync up with the years of the living world that one might open a door into. Thankfully, the Fenton’s world, being one of those synced closer to the Realms, only had a time dilation of a few seconds. 

 That being said, the area their portal had ripped into was incredibly rich in ectoplasm. And areas like that, were where newborn ghosts were formed and arrived. A ghost daycare of sorts, almost akin to a toddler area of the zone. 

 Which meant that when they shoot the Phantom-menace and other pesky ghosts to revert them into their true form, it isn’t exactly monsters that appear. Instead, there are now several ghost toddlers- or in the phantom-trio’s case literal babies- flying around. Very unhappy ghost toddlers. 

 A cult summons the ghost king. Except they don’t. Instead they get these tiny white-haired triplets of toddlers blinking at the summoning circle looking confused. 

 They’ve gotten the ghost princes and princess instead. 

 The very young princes and princess who are none too pleased and going to cause problems on purpose for both rogues and heroes alike. As godlings de-aged into their ghost age are like to do. 

 Meanwhile in the Realms, Pariah is staring down at where his trio of ghost toddlers that Clockwork had handed him when he had first woken up and was still groggy just disappeared from. He looks over at Fright Knight, his dearest brother, who looks just as shocked. 

Pariah Dark and Fright Knight? Tracked that portal and tore their way into that reality. Now they are trying to find the kids. But ghostlings are curious. And energetic. And keep moving. Shit! Where are the kids!!!!! Clockwork won't let him see them if he destroys the mortals. So he has to be careful. This is so stressful!!!

Dread gripped Jazz's chest as she raced down into the lab two steps at a time. She'd always dreaded that this day might come-- that her parents would make good on their threats.

The shouts from the lab promised as much.

There's a figure on the table in the corner. She's always hated that table, could always imagine-- a little too vividly-- a person strapped to it.

She need no longer imagine.

Jazz's head swims, her stomach rolling. She almost doesn't notice the too-wide shoulders and the hair, black-and-white rather than one or the other.

There's someone strapped to the examination table in her parents' lab.

Right now however? Sam and Danny were watching as Tucker tried, (and failed), to get a boyfriend. Danny had pulled out the camera after the first failed attempt. Tucker was being the worst. Poor Croc.

The video of the second attempt went viral. And neither of them were ever going to let Tucker live this down.

Danny: And here we have attempt four.

Sam: You'd think the man would learn a new approach....

Danny: He thinks Mr Jones needs an aggressive suitor. Something about the guy always being seen as big and scary?

Sam: Ahh. So that's why he's flung himself into his path. Screaming "let me love you".

Then he moves on to foods, whole hogs and sheep, beef back, and exotics like moose and ostrich.

After that Tucker tries giving Croc clothing made to withstand his scaled skin and his rough lifestyle, beautifully designed to match Tucker’s Egyptian wooing-wear.

Red Hood drops in to interrogate Tucker at his flat. Danny and Sam are there for dinner and just look over. Like, oh hey! Didn't you want to see Waylon's parole furry?? Seems he has a parole crime lord instead!!

There was a funky compilation video.

It's HILARIOUS.

Because of course it was. Waylon has a resting Murder Face and muscles for days. He's being hunted for sport by a tiny string bean tech nerd that HAS to be asthmatic and probably reads tech manuals for fun. Itty bitty twig of a man. And here is this HUGE Meta going "EEK~! Not ROSES! Oh NO, weaponized hugging! He might take me DANCING! Run awaaaaaay!" Like the world's most BAMF looking tsundere.

The memes are brutal and endless. Thirst edits too.

Because honestly? The Reptilian Furries (which I can not spell to save my life right now, but are Scale-ies?) Are all going: "Saaaaaaame. Man has IMPECCABLE Taste." And people are Bonk-ing them with horny jail memes and reminders not to fetishize Metas etc etc.

All while Waylon is just? Look he's not even sure if he IS gay! Or Bi! Or ANYTHING! His dating years were spent being hated and feared. And adult years mostly in jail! Cool you jets just a BIT, my guy! He says, somehow folding himself to hide behind (mostly) behind Roy.

Which is fair.

Tucker can respect that. He ALSO didn't have the best time, dating wise. And he didn't even have obvious Meta powers. Does Waylon still want this nice elk he got him? It's juicy!

And just? Roy standing there? Like "you BETTER not pressure my boy into anything he's not ready for. I'm watch you, punk." Radiating Dad Energy.

Gotham would be SO invested in their weird Meme/redemption love story? Its? SO Gotham. You other cities wouldn't GET it. Jones had a hard life, yeah? Made bad decisions. Is trying to turn his life around and find love. It speaks to them. They've all been there. Heck, they even heard Brucie Wayne reached out!

Wants to hire the big guy! Desk job and everything! And yeah, maybe it's some rich guy publicity stunt, but? They hope he takes it. Hope he MAKES it, man.

Tucker is trying to be respectful, and too about this. He swears. But he would really like his crush to give him even one chance? Please?

Technically we can say that Danny is Dan’s Mother that died in childbirth, and Dan ate his father (Vlad) in the womb.

Think about it.

Jason has like just arrived back to Gotham, caused chaos in the underbelly due to well, 8 heads in a duffle bag, and is just starting his takeover of Crime Alley. It's going good, great even! And then he busts some sort of gang or smuggling ring run by people in white suits and there's... holy shit why do these four toddlers have Lazarus eyes?!

Is that a lab?! And Lazarus waters?! Jason might be a bit mad but he's not an asshole, he's not going to just leave these kids here to the streets. He can't just take them to the Batclan either, and as much as he begrudgingly trusts Talia, he sure as fuck doesn't trust Ras. Who knows what he'd do to four... what are they, pit-kids?

Dan and Jazz can talk but Jazz is better at it, Dan would rather act than talk. Danny and Ellie/Dani can say some words and short phrases but nothing big yet. All four of them can understand the twin speak but it’s mostly the twins who use it, the goons think it’s the cutest thing! (It’s actually ghost speech but it’s not as scary when it’s baby)

Jason was seriously reconsidering his plans. Not the take over crime ally and kill the competition parts, no he was reconsidering the whole “death the living shit out of his replacement so he stops being Robin/a child soldier” part.

He’s not even sure how Jazz found out about his plan but she is giving him Alfred’s patented raises eyebrow and looking at him like he is an idiot. Jazz apparently did not think blaming Tim for becoming Robin wasn’t healthy, especially since A. They don’t know the situation that led Tim to become Robin. B. Jason replaced Dick, if Jason got mad he would be a hypocrite. And C. All beating Tim would do would keep him out the hero game until he recovered, after that he would probably double down on the vigilantism. Jason hated it when Jazz was right, how could a 5 year old be so smart.

At least Jordan is on his side, the little terror is all for bathing in the blood of his enemies (he hasn’t seen a kid this blood thirsty since he babysat Talia’s demon spawn). He however did think that making Bruce kill Joker, while poetic, would be chickening out. Jordan thought Jason should kill his own killer.

I am loving that you casually added Dash to this whole thing. Allow me to add more fuel to Dan’s Fire by adding the A-Listers and there powers.

Dash (4) has physical stats are slightly better than anyone with certain radius. Depending on who is around him he could be the best athlete in school or slightly out pace the flash

Paulina (4)is a dragon shifter, the more enraged she becomes the more dragon like she is.

Kwan (4) can duplicate himself and has mild empathy.

Star (4) is able to pick up WiFi signals like a satellite, she knows all the gossip.

Hell let’s just add every body.

Jordan (6) canon abilities

Jazz (5) has enhanced intellect, high empathy

Wes (5) is a clear sighted mortal (Look up on PJO fandom). He sees the truth in all situations but unfortunately his powers come with the Cassandra affect, people who don’t know have a hard time believing it.

Danny (4) canon abilities

Ellie (3) canon abilities

Sam (4) Urban Jungle abilities

Tucker (4) King Tuck abilities plus technopathy

Then an adult liminal (the closest they ever got was their teacher Mr Lancer and even then he was barely ghostly) comes into the lab guns blazing! At first he even wondered if Jason was a ghost with how slightly delirious he was, but he's not complaining when he and his brother get scooped up and whisked out of the place. Apparently the others have similarly gotten rescued from the labs by this (understandably) spitting mad liminal. Oh wait, he's like Danny but slightly corrupted? And their presence helps him not go into a rage? Well shit man, get this dude some snuggles pronto!

Unfortunately for him the Gotham daycares are not equipped to handle so many metas at once. They have gotten kicked out of every daycare they’ve been to so far for a variety of reasons

Danny made snow in July. Inside the building.

Ellie kept melting to scare her teachers.

Dan set fire to the cubbies when the teacher tried to make him take a nap

Jazz caused the principal to cry and reconsider all her life choices.

Sam lead the civilian children in a protest to free the class hamster.

Tucker rick rolled the entire staff when they took away his tablet.

Valerie kept stealing the security guards guns.

Dash so thoroughly crushed the gym teachers fragile adult ego the man started abusing steroids during school hours

Paulina cut off a girls pigtails with her claws.

Kwan duplicated, that’s all he did.

Star kept eavesdropping on her teachers phone calls and revealing their dirty laundry. 

Wes revealed his nursery aide was running drugs out of the back room.

Kyle kept making the teachers forget he existed so he could have extended nap time.

Jason is reaching his wits end. These kids need some normal socialization. He tries to think of how all the kid supers he knew made friends and unfortunately came to a chilling realization.

Honestly I find it hilarious with how much the Batfam are watching him they haven't realized that it's Jason. Then again at 15 Jason was closer to a 12 year old in size while as an ''adult' he's like 6'+ and probably around 300lbs and built like a fridge lol- who would expect it?

Jason doesn't know whether to be exasperated by his the kids or scold them, because like, they did do good. But still, they can't be watched by the goonion all the time and he's trying to keep them out of the whole crime-vigilante lift. Little does he know it's too late, his kids have found a metal bat or five and are trying to relearn how to shoot with pudgy kid hands. The nerf guns help with practicing aiming.

He is struggling to find fellow powered people in Gotham. ... (Though if this is before the We Are Robin movement, he could run into Duke and his friends. Duke wasn't the only one with powers, though it might've depended on the world, with Riko being able to replicate other powers via touch and Daxton having both pyro- and hydro-kinesis) (The We Are Robin gang could be their babysitters at some point lol)

I wrote a single paragraph that's it lol

Said bad guy decides to take the daycare the kids are currently going to hostage in order to blackmail Red Hood

The villain and his gang where expecting to fight Red Hood, not his meta lover who fights like a Bat with a kidnapped Robin.

Tucker totally records the fight on his tablet and it goes viral.

Ellie is freaking out the goonion by melting and pretending to be a mud mask, only to reveal herself when she reforms off poor Bills face.

Star is doing everyone’s nails in the most popular styles, she is looking up patterns and how to videos as paints.

Paulina and Sam are arguing over what pattern they should give Jason’s nails. The goons are joining the debate of sparkleishous v badass.

The merry men have found Kwan is very good at back rubs, especially when their are multiple of him.

Jazz has giant headphones on and is blasting the zen music as high as it can go so she can ignore her monkeys and their circus.

Valerie and Tucker are getting their hair done by their neighbor Elaine Thomas who is trying to teach that poor white boy next door how to properly care for kinky hair.

Danny is painting Duke’s nails while babbling about starlight and black holes.

Dash is curled up on the couch while watching the newest romcom.

Dan is pretending he doesn’t enjoy being pampered by the goons.

Kyle is applying a mud mask to Wes’s face and hoping the mud isn’t Ellie this time.

Honestly Nightwing stumbled across the warehouse on accident and decided to use the chance he was given. The Merry Men are pissed because they finally got their teen-dad crime boss to join in on the bi-weekly self-care sessions and take a break from working! And this vigilante- not even one of the ones from their city but Bludhaven's- is just going to crash it?!

Jazz: We don't want you here. Go away!

Star: Yeah! It's pampering night!

Dan: I can bite him!

Goon: Only if he don't leave soon. Don't know where he's been kiddo.

Nightwing: Hey! Rude!

Danny: You smell like sweat and burger sauce. Don't bite him. It would taste nasty.

Nightwing: Do you have to be so mean about it?

Goon: What, ya sayin ya want ta get bit by the kid what can bite through steel?

Nightwing:...... He can WHAT?!?!?

Ellie grins and picks up a fork. Holds eye contact and starts to crunch down. Nightwing is in fact, very intimidated. Wow. Yeah. That's, that's a very good deterrent.

Nightwing: ..... Did you teach her to do that or?

Jazz: Please just go away! Or I'll bite you. It supposed to be relaxation night! And you're making Dad sad!

Jason, once he stops having a mini breakdown is going to start cracking up in laughter. If anyone got a picture of his face they get a bonus because it was hilarious.

However. Kidnapping Robin? Absolutely a different ball game. Papa Hood doesn't like that Robin is tiny. So... They scheme.

Jason? Gets back to his house and finds Robin chained by the ankle to a post. With the kids having fed him. And made him play games. Robin is obviously NOT amused. Jason? Is trying so hard not to laugh at how pissed he looks.

Jason: So.... Where'd you find the Robin?

Kwan: Batman let him patrol alone!

Star: He's hardly bigger than us! So we brought him home!

Jason: Ok. But you gotta let him leave soon. It's nearly Sun up.

Danny: Can't we adopt him?

Jason: Batman might actually go insane if we steal his bird. Let him go.

Jason: Let the baby bird go. Or no dessert for a week.

Robin: What even the fuck. You're Peter's partner! For real!

Jason: You shush. Also, they're right. You're way too small to be going out in tights.

Robin: Hey! That's not fair! I can't help being small!

Danny: Papa also means young!

Jason: Count of three. Three. Two.

Frantic dive and Ellie phases the chain off Robin. Who just looks vaguely offended and confused.

Robin: There kids are smaller than me! And they stopped a gang fight!

Dan: The other option was getting shot by not stopping the fight.

Jazz: We don't look for crime to stop! Or wear stupid costumes!

Tim splutters in outrage as the kids start teasing him about his Robin suit. Jason slowly moved him so he is out of the house. And then looks at his kids.

Jason:.... Are you trying to get an older brother or something?

What the kids are not mentioning to him is the Ghostly Urge to Throw Down. Sure the thugs weren't liminal, but this is still their Papa's territory which makes it their territory too! You threaten one of them you threaten all of them!

Tim: I'm missing something obvious! I just know it!

Bruce: But, you are ok? No one hurt you???

Tim: The kids decided I need a better parent. And apparently Peter with his 13 meta kids is good enough?? I dunno. It was weird.

Alfred: Perhaps sleeping on it will help, Master Tim. You have been fed at least.

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Red Hood: And why did no one stop the kids from giving them the beat down from hell???

Tim has found a mystery and he is going going to solve it.

Observing Peter (Last name unknown) and his children still feels oddly familiar. I am almost certain there is something obvious I have missed. More observation may clear up the issue.

Tim, minding his own business, is treated to the sight of the kids getting caught by Red Hood once. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING OUT?!" "Oh Ancients it's Papa Hood, SCATTER-" "DO Not, you are getting back to Bed, I swear-"

Tim is deeply confused. Every time he wanders on it Crime Alley he finds caches with his symbol. Filled with food, nutrient drinks and notes. It's all very sweet. But very odd. At least the babies aren't out after dark anymore? He's guessing this was a compromise of some sort. Still, Red Hood and Peter seem to be doing their best to ensure the kids are happy and safe.

Which, given what he's found from the burned out labs? Well, those kids deserve the world. Government labs hurting kids! Tim will find the source and burn it down. He's already written up a report for B. Who looks just as angry as he feels. And he gets why Peter kept the kids now too. The government is after them. Nowhere is safe for them.

Jason has managed to find several goons who want out of the business. Or have family that don't want to join the business. And had managed to get them all sent to train in childcare. If he can't send his kids to a normal day care? He will set up gang day care. That way his brats can socialise. His gang members kids can socialise. And he knows they will as safe as can be done.

The hoodlums- as the merry men affectionately refer to the thirteen kids as- definitely spread their birdfeeder idea. They tell the other kids and the nice goons, and suddenly there's not just caches in Crime Alley. And sometimes there's medical supplies, sometimes an extra blanket. Sometimes there's batarangs that have been lost.

The We Are Robin gang are spreading it even further and telling the other teens in school about it too. And suddenly it's not just the newest Robin who has little caches, there's ones for the entire batclan. Most of them are still for the kids of course, Bruce is a little busy gathering info about these "guys in white" people to bring forth to the League. Just because they've only been able to hack into a Gotham branch so far doesn't mean they're not set up in other places.

Red Hood: You want out of crime right?

Waylon: Yeah. Why?

Red Hood: I'm setting up a day care/pre school for my goons. I want decent security on them. You interested?

Waylon: I'm sorry. Ya want me, near kids?

Red Hood:.... I've got 13 Metas who no one but me n Peter can control. All under 7. They'll love you. And you might just survive the little bastards.

Waylon: Wait! The feral little beasts that ran Joker out the alley?

Red Hood*very tired*: yes.

Waylon: Oh you poor fucker. Yeah alright. I'll give it a try.

Uncle Waylon is an instant hit. Poor man has NO idea how to cope with the feral brats affection. But hey, makes his life easier. And Hood wasn't kidding. They take a lot of energy to corral.

The food caches confuse the Fuck out of Him for quite a while. He appreciates them yes. But.... What the fuck? Alfred adores them. Master Tim actually seems to be eating properly! How wonderful! And he has that poor teen Father to thank.... That poor young man. So many children. All rescued from this GIW group. Well, Master Bruce shall sort that out!

The Justice League? Have no idea the stress they are heading into. The absolute horror they feel when they finally get past the firewalls? Not fun.

Waylon? Honestly having such a good time. He gets paid well, has a proper home that's not just the sewers, and the kids are tough enough that he doesn't have to worry about him hurting them because they're so small. They're not fragile by any means, but he was worried at first that he'd accidentally do something.

Jason is just relieved to be able to take a fuckin nap, as are the Merry Men.

Tim buried under the kids, Peter's plus more....

Tim:... Why are there more of you?

Jazz: We kept being kicked out of day care.

Dash: Papa Hood is workin on gettin some of his people who want out of the life trained.

Waylon: But fer now? I'm apparently runnin crime alley brat wranglin. Got some of Hood's people's kids in the pile too.

Tim:..... I thought Hood was a crime lord?

Danny: Only cause he cares! N if you control crime less innocent people get hurt!

Kwan: Yeah! Papa Hood makes sure the drugs n that are safe n clean! And the weapons!

Tim:.... What benefits isn't he offering his people?

Waylon: Let's see. Hood does insurance, health care, pension, dental, child care now. Parental leave, bereavement leave. I don't think he's missed anything.

Tim:... Holy shit! That's as good as Wayne Enterprises! No wonder all of the people in crime alley are flocking to him.

Paulina: Papa Hood cares. He wants to help. And if he's gotta be scary to help? He'll be scary!

Waylon: Ya know, he's got a free health clinic set up now. One that even I can go to. Lot better at helpin me than the big Bat. no offence.

Tim: None taken. So..... How's Peter?

Ellie: Daddy is sleepin! We made him tired. Daddy is a lotta busy.

Tim.... Might be stuck here a while longer. He is definitely taking notes to add to the files. Including the benefits package Hood's goons get.

Bruce? Got a text saying Robin was 'observing' Peter and the kids again. So he doesn't worry for the first hour. When Tim takes 5 to arrive back at the cave? He worried a lot.

Bruce: 5 hours?!?!

Tim: The kids talk a lot. Also, I have several hair samples to check. Waylon is now employed as Peter and Hood's nanny. And the benefits pack he gives is comparable to WE.

Bruce:.... Waylon is a nanny?

Tim: Eh. Apparently he likes kids? But most are squishy. These ones? Damn near indestructible. And high energy. They need a similarly indestructible carer.

Bruce: Waylon? Killer Croc?

Tim: Yup. He's going to be security for the gang provided day care when it gets set up.

Bruce:..... Hood is setting up... Stop! Stop distracting me! 5 hours!

Tim:.... Took a while to get the hair samples. They are good at avoiding it. Peter is downright paranoid. Bat level paranoia.

He's going to ignore how all of Crime Alley has seemed to decide that he is a small child in need of food. He's not! He can take care of himself, even if even Bruce insists he rests and has decent meals.

He does not mention to Bruce or the other's how 'Peter' cooked food that was incredibly similar to Alfred's recipes, if not near exact replicas. He doesn't mention how he only managed to get some hair because the man sat down to read some books to the kids. Not just the his or the goon's kids either, but several homeless kids too.

"Shit!"

According to the kids he's now friends with the eldritch shadow knight??? Ghost... Pit Demon... thing????

also Tim can't just go to their home to investigate without an invite or a guide because of Kyle's, star's,and tucker's influence. if he tries to find any online record? MAJOR interference. practically untraceable. if he tries to sneak back himself? strange he could have sworn taking a right here would lead to another street not a dead end? didnt he just come from this direction? boom back to the edge of crime alley.

The kids let Tim take the DNA on purpose in order to set the bats sight on the GIW. Jasons dna is corrupted and seems to be almost an exact match with the substance from the giw labs. Well they can make sure jason and his new family are safe before trying to connect with them. and ensure their safety they will. I dont know who would target the giw harder. Bruce or Dick? In Dick's case, he probably has a lot of regret (and pent up anger). Like Little wing?! he's back? hes ALIVE?!... he's being HUNTED!! GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY B.

Bruce? has a LOT of conflicting emotions he's not competent enough to deal with. Time to abolish some laws and bring down the organization.

when tim wakes up? he asking for an autograph from his favorite robin.

Dick? Dick and Bruce are going feral on the GIW asses. A bit of comic history real quick about Jason's death. So originally, Joker actually kind of freaked out after he beat Jason because, oh shit, that's robin, Batman is going to get here and utterly beat his ass any moment. That bitch panicked, and blew up the warehouse so Batman wouldn't know it was him, and then got diplomatic the next day, or generally as quickly as he could. Bruce? Had no idea who killed Jason at first. Joker however, is a dumbass who taunts Batman with the death of his son eight times in no less than ten minutes because he thought Batman, a known vigilante, would follow the law. Batman, instead, thanked him for confirming that he was the one to kill Robin, and then started to beat his ass and was straight up going to murder Joker before Superman, who was literally hired by the government to prevent a diplomatic incident that could end in war, had to physically drag Bruce off and away. Because otherwise, Bruce was going to kill Joker, and it wasn't going to be a quick death either. He was literally beating the Joker to death. And with the whole Joker revival after Dick killed him? There were four different people there. Chances are, it wasn't Bruce who revived Joker, Bruce probably fucking stood there not caring because at that time, they thought Joker had killed Tim.

So Bruce, finding out that Jason is alive? That he's being hunted? That he might have gotten experimented on? That his grave was desecrated? Him and Dick are on a fucking warpath.

Alfred: The eldest of whom is 6? Forgive me Master Tim, if I find it hard to believe them truly competent.

Waylon is zen, he is the chillest he's ever been. Capybara effect has hit him, he's gone. Free dinner, free show, and people treating him like an actual person. Best job he's ever taken.

Paulina has deemed them dragon buddies, even if Waylon is more of a crocodilian. It's close enough for her! They are now best friends and she shall perch on his shoulder for maximum height advantage! Jazz is writing a whole thing about metas being treated as people even if they don't look human alongside Sam. No Dan, murder is not the answer. >:/

Honestly, Jason has never had such a good workout. Training with the All Caste and the League of Assassins don't count because he was both in the thrall of Pit Rage (apparently he had too much ecto or something, he wasn't paying too much attention) and they were trying to kill him. And look, he loves his kids, they're amazing. But their ghost teaching could use some work. Which is understandable, they're all like, 4 to 8 years old! And it's only fair if he makes Fright a legal identity in exchange. Even if his human-ish form is a surprise. Jason would love to know if the knight of Autumn is a halfa but he's not getting a straight answer and the kids are laughing at him for being so invested.

Look he can either focus on his... friend?? Companion?? Fight buddy??? Or he can focus on whatever the fuck his kids might have done. And there's that whole 'ignorance is bliss' saying. There's a 50-50 chance he even wants to know what they pulled, and there hasn't been any explosions or murders yet, so he'll take what he can get. Even if things are a hint too quiet in the Alley....

Justice League with Batman and Nightwing right now:

Poor Jason. Now fully understands why all parents just look done. But hey, new fight buddy is cute at least. And a good teacher for all this ghost stuff. He's gotten Waylon out of crime, and a protector/sitter for the kids. Crime Alley is quiet for once. And! Wonder if all wonders, the big Bag is busy with the League and not up his ass. He's gonna take advantage to get some good sleep.

Why is Robin vibrating in place on his doorstep. You good baby bird?

Tim: Jason Todd!

Jason: What?

Tim: You were Robin! Now you're alive again! And have so many kids!

Jason: What!?

Danny: Ope! You broke him. C'mon Dad. Let's go sit down kay.

Jazz: Robin! In! Lunch time! You can talk over food!!

Waylon: ... Should I be here for this?

So, we currently have, Bruce and Dick inviting their fellow heroes to war. Tim day on Jason's couch getting all the details. And also being a massive fanboy. Jason feels terrible about his early plans. Also, yeah, this kid is meant to be 13? Something isn't right there. Kid needs feeding up. Fright Knight has taken to walking the streets to diminish crime with his very presence. The Goons are waiting for the boss and the Being of Great Power to announce their marriage to Jason of the many children.

Waylon is just say watching the drama and enjoying a good scale clean. Paulina knows her stuff. It's nice to have the kids to cuddle while watching the drama live. Now, he didn't expect Red Hood to have been Robin 2. But he's glad the kid is back now. Whatever brought him back? Well, should be interesting to learn about. Joker needs to die though.... He'd go after the kids. Waylon's already attached. Dammit.

Waylon starts texting Harley for plans and information. Can't make the poor lad kill his own murderer. So guess he'll just have to do it. Maybe that Knight would help? He's set on protecting the kids. Hmm, he's gonna check with Jordan first. Make sure of cultural issues. Waylon doesn't wanna adopt, or propose to, the lad after all.

Waylon: Jordan. Wanna go smash some shit? You're looking a little bored n destructive. I know a place as needs tearing down.

Jordan: Dad! Can I? Please! I'll listen to Uncle Waylon I swear!

Jason: .... Yes fine. Go. Cause destruction. But no fire!

Jordan: Fiiinnnneeee. I'll be good.

Waylon and Jordan slip out, with Ellie following along all sneaky like. She knows Jordan can feel her. But also knows he thinks whatever is actually going on will amuse her. So it's whatever.

Waylon: So. Yer Dad's Robin 2. That means he was killed by Joker. Now. Joker? Is a sick sonuvabitch. N he'll go after you kids of he ever figures it out. How would yer Dad feel if I took the bastard out? Wouldn't make shit weird?

Jordan: Dad's kinda set on trying to make Batman do it. To prove he loves him or some shit? I think Joker needs to die. If you're asking would it make him angry? no. You're already part of the fraid too. So it wouldn't be like, a proposal. Now if Fright Knight did it?

Waylon: Yer Dad would get down on one knee?

Jordan: Yup! Please do it, or get someone to. Dad gets super stressed about that bastard!

Waylon: Already contacted Quinn and Ivy. I'll be asking Hood's Knight later. Don't you kids worry. We'll get it done.

Jordan: And now we get to smash up this building?

Waylon: Fer now we get ta smash up this buildin.

Jordan: Best Uncle ever!!!!!

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A week later when Fright Knight presents Jason the Jokers head in a box? Standing in front of Harley, Ivy and Waylon? Jason will forever deny crying in relief. But he did, just before grabbing Fright Knight and hauling him off upstairs for a few hours.

Ellie: Uh oh. Did anyone tell Dad Ghosts don't have a set bio sex?

Danny:.... Oh shit! Frighty might get knocked up!!!!

Jazz: Or knock Dad up. He's ghost enough to get ghost pregnant.

Waylon: Yer Dad can get pregnant?

Wes: Takes a LOT of emotion and Ecto touching. And core touching. But um.....

Jordan: Well. Frighty just handed Dad his justice. So. Might be enough of Frighty gets carried away....

Paulina: Can you imagine Frighty ending up a Mom though? He'd be so good at it!!!!

Star: Vote on adopting Frighty as Mom? All who agree raise a hand.

It all started when Frighty told him he was pregnant and they were having twins. He was so nervoucited. All the kids were looking forward to becoming big brothers and sisters. Of course Jason assumed that Frighty was carrying twins.

That was until the baby shower, when kids started showering Frighty AND him with presents.

Finding out you’re pregnant at your own baby shower is not fun, especially because everyone assumed he knew already.

Jason: Why! Did no one! warn me I could get knocked up too!!!!

Mid-verbal fight with the asshole he catches sight of Tim (recording the whole thing and waving at Jason) and of Danny (potential danger he’s been investigating for nearly two weeks), and Jason gives the asshole a “this isn’t over” threat and dips. Then,

Tim, who noticed Danny’s reaction: You know that guy?

Danny: Oh, yeah, that’s my stalker. You?

Tim: Nemesis. I’m sorry he’s your what?

Bonus:

Tim texting Jason: are you stalking my classmate??

Jason: Mind your own business, Replacement.

Jason: Wait, did he tell you that?

Tim: yah

Jason: RH’s been investigating him. Why the FUCK does your “classmate” think it’s me?

Tim: dick is gonna love this. the great rh has a containment breach

Jason: DON’T YOU FUCKING DARE TELL HIM REPLACEMENT

Tim: LMAO fuck it we BALL

Danny: Oh for sure. Anyway! This project, we can do it the super quick and easy way. Or the fun way!

Tim:... Care to tell me the reason? And, explain both options. Then we decide.

Danny: Why? It's not like it's important why he's stalking me? And! Yes. So. We can do a boring presentation on something easy. Knock something together in like an hour or two. Or! We can make a presentation on the batclans tech. Which absolutely involves stalking them for updates on their tech!

Bruce: Tim, why are you like this?

Tim just stares at Bruce. Who has a flashback to all the fucked up shit he did when grieving Jason.....

Bruce: Point taken. But also??

Tim: Wanted to see how good my class mate was. Also he's being investigated by Hood. I can see why. He's sus as fuck. Pretty sure he's not connected to anything though.

Bruce: Pretty sure??

Tim: Hmm. I'm still being thorough. But, he acts like my team. So I'm thinking ex vigilante. Not quite able to leave the endorphins behind.

Bruce:.... No.

It’s an invitation to join the Teen Titans that literally just says “How would you like to spite THE Batman?” with an address below.

There is a dimensional anomaly being picked up in Gotham, by the time they pinpoint the where a glowing portal already begins to form in the sky in front of Wayne industries in the middle of the day. A glowing child with white hair and glowing green eyes plummets from out of the portal as it closes behind them.

They land in a devastating crash leaving a crater in the street where they fell.

It is a rare day time sighting of the Batman that is witnessed by many as Bruce swoops down to collect the anomaly before the Gotham PD can even arrive, carrying the child to the nearest secluded rooftop.

Bruce can tell the kid is out of it, their eyes are having trouble focusing on him as he settles them onto the roof, but they eventually focus on him warily. They are absolutely other worldly in a way he has seen in many aliens before, as he checks them for injuries he tells them he means no harm, but it becomes clear they can't understand him as Dick and Duke finally arrive. The child speaks in a language that echoes and reverbs painfully in their ears, it is hard not to flinch when they speak, Bruce has to calm them when it becomes clear to them both their is a language barrier.

The child winces, seeming to hesitate before they open their mouth again, bracing themselves once again for the child's words they are taken by surprise when the kid latches their fangs on Bruce's arms. The teeth bite right through his body armor, before he can react the kid shivers and releases him just as quickly as they latched on.

The bats who have gone on the defensive immediately are blinded by a flash of light, when their vision recovers the child is replaced by a carbon copy of a teenage Bruce Wayne.

"Can you understand me now?"

Danny falls out of a portal into another dimension, landing smack dab in the middle of a busy crowded street.

Before he can even regain his senses he is snatched up by what looks like a living shadow, it becomes clear though that is isn't a ghost when his eyes finally refocus and he can see the partial human face not covered by the cowl.

He isn't expecting the language barrier, but he remembers being taught recently how to bypass language barriers by Frostbite. He hesitates at first because it could be seen as a threat to bite someone out of nowhere, but he needs to be understood if he is to find out where he is.

So he bites the shadow dressed man holding him, shivering at the influx of information when he uses his new ability. Before he can stop it he is forced to return to human form, feeling the same wave of exhaustion he gets after using his wail he looks up at the man above him only now noticing the other two men as well.

Danny peeled himself off the window and did a summersault to stand in front of Superman. He pulled a card out of his chest, coughed to clear his throat and read aloud.

"I, Daniel Fenton, formally present myself as an ecto entity for research and disposal per section E 21c of the ectoplasmic entity containment acts to Superman, an agent of the American Justice League. I would like the record to show that not only am I not resisting containment but have provided means with which to effect containment as a show of goodwill." At this, Danny again reached into his chest and pulled out a duffle bag and cuffs which he presented to Superman.

"I would also like the record to show at this time that I have insured no retribution from any other entities. Both allies to my hero persona 'Phantom' and denizens of the infinite realms who recognize me as their ultimate ruler have been asked to stand down and allow my disposal."

"It is my hope that the American Justice League will find room in the law to allow for my continued existence but as a non-sentient entity that is surely beyond my control."