Confuzled duck is always confuzled

The Justice League founding members all have tidbits about themselves. Everybody knows the iconic abilities of the trinity even if some people question whether Batman is human or not. All the Justice League members stand out one way or another.

But there was one Justice League member that stood out among them all. Phantom, the first hero who advocated heavily for the meta act. A strong Mage who took care of a lot of things that were supernatural not only for his City but also for the world.

Weren't exactly sure what he was but they knew that he was good at Magic so that's who he was to them. Not only to the world but also to the Justice League. Being incredibly talented with the diversity that was his skill made him an invaluable asset.

So when a magical problem that they learned later came from the afterlife they called Phantom. They tried to explain the situation as best as possible to get the Mages attention. So when he finally showed up they were expecting a battle of some kind.

Instead Phantom stared at the creature in front of them. Pulled out a gun and shot it in the shoulder.

"Phantom WTF"

"Ember I am pretty sure I told you that the next time I catch you trying to take over the world I was going to shoot you."

"You shot me in the arm?!"

"Yeah in the arm it's not like you feel pain anyway plus you know I don't miss"

The GIW passed an amendment to the Anti Ecto acts that protects Halfas and Liminals after they see Danny transform. A week later Danny is captured by a Meta Human Trafficking group.

Like? Is a super nova beautiful? Yes! A tiger? Absolutely! Wildfires and tsunamis, majestic in their awe inspiring power? Why of course! BUT! Do we let civilians go up and TOUCH these things?

Ha! Fuck no.

They already HAVE pretty substantial evidence that SOMETHING (probably ghostly) is going on. They investigate it. They keep IT from getting hurt or hurting innocent people. Sometimes? It's radioactive material. Sometimes gas leaks. Sometimes GHOSTS! (Very exciting)

There is so much we can learn from that! Push our understanding of the Cosmos forward! Clean energy maybe? Medicine? Who knows!? But they INVESTIGATE! Learn. And, most importantly, get ON SITE first! So they can throw up Caution tape and keep anyone from ending up in the hospital (or worse).

They're basicly the "I want to believe" crowd for ghosts. But also Nasa. But ALSO the highest paid skeptics money can buy and environmental impact specialists etc. They'd NEVER have hired the Fentons. And in fact, probably have them on a WATCH LIST right along side several cults. Solely? Because the Fentons are trying to PUNCH A HOLE into(!!?) The long theorized ghost dimension.

Like?? NO?! DO NOT DO THAT!?

WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT!?

Do you BORE A HOLE into the planet to study the way magma moves?! MAKE a fucking blackhole in a populated downtown to STUDY THEM? Maybe try breeding highly venomous snakes next to a preschool, next? While you juggle kerosene?! The FUCK, Fentons!!?!?

Weeeeeeell in canon, Dan and Clockwork know each other but the show didn't explain how they met

Soooooo

How much did Dan get on Clockwork's nerves to make this deity of time decide to recode/reboot the main timeline? Only bc Dan le rompio las pelotas a Clockwork... Did Dan have the same ambition as Vlad, believing himself to be an Indiana Jones (besides destroying everything around him like an apocalyptic hurricane) prowling the Ghost Zone looking for strange things like Vlad did? Did he encounter Clockwork and do they fight? Did Clockwork get angry and yell, "okey That's enough, you bastard! I'm going to check your file and see where you came from!"

The justice league is now responsible for the GIW’s top scientists’ personal pet project, an attempt to cure a condition the League has never heard of and can’t get much information on beyond what they’re expected to do to keep them healthy and the treatment going in their medical wing.

Injecting non-meta human blood by the liter into a 14 year old boy, while bleeding bright green sludge from him- to hopefully completely eliminate his ecto-contamination.

The boy is lethargic and completely non-responsive at all times. They’re told ectoplasm makes people violent and that its removal is what causes the coma, and of course they immediately jump to Lazarus pits. It looks the same and sounds the same, and chemical analysis shows the similarities.

Bruce hopes this could be the answer to fixing- helping Jason.

The Justice League Dark is not involved, as surely the League knows all there is to know about the Lazarus pits, and the directions from the scientists are perfectly straightforward.

UNTIL... One of Clockworks' notes show up, and Phantom pauses to read it, before surrendering to the JL, saying he'll follow them.

Now obviously, the JL are confused and suspicious, but eventually come to the (wrong) conclusion that Phantom is just a lackey or something, and that the person who wrote the note is the real mastermind manipulating this poor innocent super-powered teenager.

The justice league hurriedly responds to a call for backup at a little in the middle of nowhere place by the name of Amity Park. 

The situation had seemed so simple. 

A Star Sapphire had suddenly shown up on Earth which isn’t immediately cause for concern but she was unidentified, so a lantern was definitely going to have to look into it if only just to make sure that nothing bad was going on. There are two planet side green lanterns, Simon and Jessica. So they responded to handle the potential situation. 

Things rapidly spun out of control when they realized it wasn't just a Star Sapphire. 

"I hate to say this but we're gonna need backup" Simon tells Cyborg, "the Star Sapphire has brought something with her. My first guess was a white martian but..." The other one can do some manner of density shifting, and he can go invisible, but they know ways around that. Whatever this one is doing isn’t that though.

"Why isn't this working!?!" Comes Jessica's slightly panicked voice in the distance, "he keeps just going through my creations! dammit, think think Jess" She tried to contain him with a flamethrower construct but he just ignored it, like he’s seemingly ignoring everything else she’s throwing at him.

"Our constructs have zero effect on the other one, the alien, meta? man I don’t know he’s human shaped" 

"What is the situation other than the two hostiles?"

"Uh we got some government agents who are retreating because of the Star Sapphire wrecking their stuff. And the civilian people here seem to be falling under her influence, so she must be human. She's from here, she needs emotional connection to pull that stuff off."

The people are furious, the violet glow around them clearly indicates that the girl is using her ring to amp them up but if Simon didn’t know any better he’d say this was red lantern stuff.

Well there are more ways to whip people up into a frenzy, by hurting their loved ones for example.

There is a brief moment where it can be heard that Simon and Jessica try to get into a more advantageous position. 

Simon grunts, "dammit, those agents seemed to have weapons that actually worked on the other guy but the Star Sapphire used her violet constructs to shield him and destroy their guns and we've been struggling since" this whole situation stinks, he has a weird feeling about all of it.

"Simon this is really really bad, i can't keep restraining all these civilians, we're running out of energy fast!"

Cyborg tries to get a visual on the situation from his position in the Watchtower while he’s notifying any league affiliated heroes who are nearby and available. 

But all of a sudden he realizes there is just nothing, just a big lap of void where the two lanterns are supposed to be, there is no cctv footage, no cell towers, no internet connection. Just what the hell is going on here.

Then the audio transmission starts to violently crackle.

A new voice laced with static can suddenly be heard, "There you two are"

"Shit"

"Is the justice league coming yet? Are they finally going to do something?" the staticy voice continues.

"Stay back you-"

"Or maybe they still need more of a reason to act" 

The audio cuts out. 

"Jessica! Simon! Come in!" ... "Shit!" 

Cyborg finally gets a clear picture with the satellite cameras and now sees the entirety of Amity Park has been covered with a crystalized violet dome. It’s then that he remembers the story Hal told quite some time ago now about a Star Sapphire who managed to put a whole planet into love stasis.

They are gonna need more help with this one he thinks.

Meanwhile Jazz is still shakily trying to figure out how her new pink powers work, now that all the fighting is over (for now), the GIW forcefully expelled from Amity, and the two Justice league people captured and restrained.

Everything happened so fast, one moment the GIW had knocked out her brother and were forcefully taking him away and while she saw them drive off (she was pretty sure she was screaming) a pink thing just froze her in place, She was pretty sure someone said something about “great love in her heart” and then she was… well she was flying and- and there wasn’t really any time to question things then so she may have kinda gone and ripped into the van that had Danny.

She’s pretty sure she healed him, and then things just completely spiraled out of control from that point on. and now she’s here.

She’s pretty sure this is crazy villain behavior, she’s going to get put on some sort of watchlist and then she’ll never get to be a psychologist but it’s fine.

I mean, she(the child) doesn't seem UPSET. But Lois, honey, you can't do that. We're not Bruce. We can't afford the lawyers. Also, does our....nnnnnew? Daughter? Guest! Oh, thank God. Not that you're not lovely! You'd be a wonderful daughter! I'm sure plenty of people want to... kidnap...

Okay, see, it sounded better in his head.

He's back to being Concerned again. Lois? Lois why did you Kidnap a guest? And Miss, would you like some apple crumble?

All while Lois is muttering about Contacts and "where is my blackmail folder" and "fuckin KNEW that guy was sketchy! Honorable man, my ASS, Dad!" from her office.

Clark is just? Trying so, SO hard to Be A Good Host(tm) and not invite the wrath of his (adopted) ancestors upon him. You eaten yet? Want more? Have some tea. A blanket. My soul. Need a liver? You can have mine! Take our house. We can adopt you if you want! You're family here, perfect stranger, welcome!

Only for Sam to just? Kneecap him? By casually asking if some boy named "Wes" is "actually on to anything" and he really is Kal-El.

Sam: Sir down fly boy. Calm down. I'm just telling your wife about the cover up around Amity Park. The human rights violations. And attempts to block us in so we can't ask for help.

Clark:.... I can just leave you to it then?

Sam:.... Urgh, you're a farm boy aren't you? I'm vegan. Hi make whatever, so long as it's vegan I'll eat it.

Clark: Got it!

Lois comes out bearing the folder of doom.

Lois: Tell me everything!!!!

Sam: So. I can call my friend. And he can also email you the files we totally found lying around and didn't break into a government installation to steal.

Lois: Please do! In fact. Honey!! I'm taking Sam back home tomorrow. I'll be staying for a few days! I'll take my pager!

Sam: It won't work. Outside tech never does. It has to be made in Amity to work.

The Casper High gossip mill explodes.

Wes Weston was right? About what? Seriously this is the guy who thinks Bruce Wayne is Batman and that Lex Luthor has a crush on Superman. He has more conspiracy theories than matching socks and he has a theory about where his other socks are.

Which if Wes’s crazy theories was he right about?

Sam isn’t telling.

Wes isn’t telling

So! AU where the Fentonworks Labs actually stretch Miles upon Miles below the City of Amity Park.

It started when the Fentons wanted to add a simple addition to the original Lab when they ran out of space to store their more dangerous weapons. They didn't want their (at the time) young children getting their hands on their experimental Weaponry, it could blow up in their faces!

So they built a different Wing of the Lab to hold all those Inventions.

Then they ran out of space and added a few extra Storage Rooms. But then they decided it was a hassle to have to carefully transport their Dangerous Inventions all the way to the Storage Rooms, and built a Lab specifically for Dangerous Experiments near that same Section. Then that Lab was occupied for a while, and Jack wanted to start a different experiment as well, so they built a few more.

In the end they just never stopped building onto their Labs.

There are sections of the Mega-Lab that are entirely walled off because a few of their more unstable Experiments contaminated the area. Walking into them was not recommended, else you could walk out with an extra eye or 5.

In other sections, their Captured Ghosts had taken over a few Labs and created a sort of Mad Max style civilization using their discarded weapons and vehicles.

In another, all Ghosts became Humans and all Humans became Ghosts. That was a weird one, to this day they still didn't understand how they pulled that off.

In another, some type of Eldritch Time Ghost had been born, and now sort of always existed and never existed, and began experimenting with its powers. They nicknamed it Clocky because it liked to carry around a stopwatch.

And so many more. At one point a failed Portal Experiment messed with the internal Space of the entire thing. Now there was literally no way of Mapping it. The Fentons still somehow managed to navigate it perfectly.

When Jazz and Danny grew up, they too learned how to navigate the Labs, which is how Danny managed to show his friends the Portal Experimentation Wing in the first place.

Unfortunately, it wasn't safe for anyone aside from the Fentons to enter the Mega-Labs, so one day when the Fenton Family+friends left town on a Week Long Camping/Road Trip, they put up a few Ghost Shields to keep both Humans out and the Ghosts in.

This drew some unwanted attention after some tourists saw the giant Glowng Green Building in the middle of an Illinois Town, and rightfully called the Justice League.

Now, the Justice League had tried to call the owners of the house, but nobody picked up the phone. (An incident with Jack and a Canoe had knocked most of their phones into the lake. They weren't even at the lake yet.)

When nobody picked up, they decided to investigate personally.

After getting into the House, they quickly found a door labeled "Labs: Do Not Enter (unless it we are late for Dinner)" and went into ignoring all the warnings.

Went to go see the movie bout some pretty amazing digging

this was my favourite part

Danny: The one with the glasses?

Bruce: Yes. His name is Clark Kent. He can be trusted.

Danny: Okay. *Writes note down* What about the woman next to him?

Bruce: That's Cat Grant, and no, she can't be trusted. Everything you say to her will turn into a gossip-lifting, life-ruining article.

Danny: Got it. *writes more notes*

Jason, watching the two from a few feet away: Say, who's that kid Bruce is media training? Is he a new ward he took in?

Tim: No, that's Danny Fenton, the face of Fenton Works. They signed up as a sub-company of Wayne Enterprise. Originally, they were a paranormal investigation and capture company- yes, I mean ghost hunters- but it was discovered that almost all thier tech can be used on metas. Bruce wants to make medical equipment that can be used by our enhanced citizens.

Jason: I see. But why a kid so young? He's your age, right?

Tim: Hmm, apparently his parents, the owners of Fenton Works, made him CEO so they could focus on ghost hunting and the occasional meta medical machines for Bruce. He got here a week ago to shadow me for CEO training, and Bruce stole him after they met outside my office. Danny hangs onto his every word, and I think Bruce forgot what it was like to have a kid actually listen to him.

Jason: Ah thats makes sense. What do you think of him?

Tim: Well, he's a little naive, easy to trick, and has way too much empathy for the cold world of business. I'm gonna have him in my bed.

Jason: Ah....well that took a turn. One I do not like so I'm gonna....*walks away*

Tim: He will be ✨️mine✨️

Now I was randomly thinking about this ship since it’s not too well known and thought of a little AU

So here are a couple of things for this AU

-Vlad, Maddie, and Jack reunite after Vlad gets out of the hospital.

-It wasn’t easy since Spectra had fed Vlad will all of these insecurities about how he wasn’t loved by Jack and Maddie and thought that they would hate him for being an Halfa.

-But Vlad still has hope that Jack and Maddie will still care for him.

-The three decided to hang out more together to better bond and rekindle that light, despite the many difficulties.

-During a bonding ghost hunting trip, Maddie and Jack get attacked by a very strong ghost and Vlad jumps in and saves them and turns to his ghost form automatically.

-When the fight is done, Vlad turns and sees his two friends looking shocked. Thinking that he messed up once realizing that he was in his ghost form he breaks down and cried.

-They talk a lot after that, ending with Jack and Maddie reassuring Vlad that they still cared for him no matter what.

-This results into Jack and Maddie to better understand that not all ghosts are evil and to try to only stop those ghosts that are doing evil.

-Vlad becomes somewhat rich through more legal ways and also finds gems in the ghost zone (this idea I had gotten from the wonderful @ghost-chicky in her Family Breakfast AU) to sell.

-Vlad does end up living with Jack and Maddie in Amity Park and does work with them whenever he can whilst also being the mayor of Amity Park.

-Soon, Jack and Maddie get married. Vlad had since moved on from his feelings for Maddie, but still feels a pang inside of him and he doesn’t know why. He put that aside, wanting to be happy for his friends.

-A year later, Jazz is born. and you can bet your behind that Vlad loves this little girl.

-Vlad always helps out the newly wedded couple with their daughter and her third word is ‘Uwncl Vla’. Vlad cried a bit of tears of joy.

-He does show his powers towards Jazz to make her feel comfortable around him and he knows that she is smart enough not to tell anyone outside of him and her parents.

-Two years later, Maddie had Danny (I would insert my OC Blake here, but I think i’ll do a separate post about her another time), who was premature, but survived.

-Vlad also fell in love with that baby as well and would often walk with both Jazz and Danny outside and play with them.

-And here comes the sadness.

-Maddie and Jack then have another baby, who they were gonna name Danielle, named after Jack’s belated mother. But both Danielle and Maddie had died during the birth.

-Maddie’s final words were to Jack and Vlad and telling them not to think of her with sadness, but with happiness. To stay strong for Jazz and Danny. And to not feel guilty and to be there for one another.

-The funeral takes place 2 weeks later.

-Vlad takes off of work for a while.

-Vlad is the type of person to quickly break down when someone dies and then can somewhat move on with only a couple of hiccups.

-Jack however, bubbles it all up inside of himself and it takes a while for the dam to break. And it does after a couple of weeks of trying to stay strong for his kids and Vlad.

-Vlad then does make sure that Jack is doing well and does smack some sense into him to make him know that he isn’t the only one and that they will get through this together.

-For the next couple of years, Jack and Vlad do move on from Maddie’s and Danielle’s death.

-Whenever Jazz and Danny bring up their mother and sister, they do talk about them in great fondness.

-Right around when Jazz starts to go to Middle School, Vlad finally realizes why he has felt this empty all this time. He is starting to fall for Jack.

-when he first realizes this, he hates himself, thinking how Jack could never like him like that and how it felt like it was too soon for Jack to even want to be with anyone else.

-Vlad starts to become more and more flustered around Jack, which he would try and cover. But it would typically fail.

-But Jack does notice, and does think about it for a while. Does he like Vlad, would they work, how would the kids react? All of these questions rang through Jacks head.

-So for the next week or two, he would observe and answer all of those questions in his head.

-He noted how he would fluster whenever Vlad would laugh or smile at and with the kids or at one of his jokes.

-Jack noted how they both worked amazingly together, both in mechanics and in everyday life.

-The kids, he thinks, would love both their dad and ‘uncle Vlad’ no matter what.

-So Jack decides to confront Vlad about it while the kids are at school.

-Whist working on a new invention, Jack bluntly asks f Vlad would want to be together with him.

-Vlad, very flustered, asked if Jack would want this and if the kids would still love him cause Vlad cares so much about Jazz and Danny’s opinion.

-Jack does reassure Vlad that he has thought about it and that he does want to be with Vlad.

-They end up kissing and hugging, very light stuff until Jazz and Danny needed to be picked up.

-The both of them tell Danny and Jazz during dinner. Danny jumps up and down and asks if he can now call Vlad ‘Papa’ (Vlad both almost choked and cried) and Jazz saying how she has been waiting for this to happen.

-And in two years, they both get married.

nevermind that this stupid meme took me all day just take it

original under the cut.

When Batman dies he comes back as a ghost nearly immediately. He soon finds a stable portal to cross through, intending to find Gotham as soon as possible.

Is clearly terrified for his family and city but REFUSES to "abandon" Danny! D:> Stop being everything Danny's been praying for! This feels like a TRAAAAAP! He's gonna get attached then something BAD WILL HAPPEN!

*awkward BatHug deployed* its going to be Okay, Danny.

Obviously Bruce has been dead for a bit so Jason is sus until the kid says one of the batcodes

Cue the justice league having to summon or fight someone from the GZ/Infinte realms. They take one look at Batman and just start parenting/baby talking/treating him like a child.

And Batman doesn’t do anything about it! His core is humming happily because he is a baby ghost despite being a adult human.

Danny: Why is Lady Pandora here?

Batman: Realms issue came up. As Earth's resident Realms wrangler? I thought it time to introduce you to JLD. As they didn't even explain that it was a Realms issue until they summoned Lady Pandora.

Zatanna: How do you even know about the Infinite Realms?!

Danny: Cause he's Batman. Duh.

Batman: This is Phantom. The hero of Amity Park. He babysits a permanent portal between the Realms and Earth.

Danny: Urgh. Babysits is right. So! Who are we fighting this time!

Zatanna: Batman? Are you sure? The being running around isn't an everyday spirit! The Ancient of Dreams isn't something for a teen to fight!

Danny: Wait! Nocturn got out again!?! Urgh! What's he doing this time?!

Batman: Phantom has previously fought Nocturn, Undergrowth, Fright Knight, Pariah Dark and Plasmius.

Eldritch being: *gasp* A BABY!! Coochie coo! Coochie Coochie coo! Hello little one!! 😍

The Batman, slightly tilting his head back so the eldritch being can gently tickle his chin with their huge fuckin claws: *deadpan* Hello. It is very nice to meet you. I know that I am a very cute baby, but my associates have summoned you for assistance. Please focus.

📷📸📷📸📷📸

You’re doing amazing sweeties!!

Bruce: I died six months ago. As is protocol it wasn't announced. Since many of us return, one way of another. This time I came back as a ghost. Phantom is the protector of Amity Park's permanent portal. I stayed for a while to mentor him. But had him contact my children. They turned up to help. And likely to ensure I was still myself.

Marvel: Uh, question Mr Batman. How did you damper your aura like that?!?

Bruce: Phantom created the device. It users electromagnetic fields manipulation to scramble and hide Ecto signatures.

Zatanna: Wait! The kid?!?! How?!

Bruce: He is incredibly intelligent. And the son of mad scientists. He used their work on reading Ecto signatures to work it out.

Clark: Why did you hide it from us?

On the other hand, you know who would have been in real distress? His kids, for those two months or so between his death and Danny’s phone call.

Bruce died as Batman, from an injury in the field. He was still alive when he was brought back to the Cave and died in the presence of his family. Though he didn’t regain consciousness and they didn’t get to say goodbye, there was no chance for the body to be swapped; there is no doubt that Bruce is dead.

They all get very drunk for a night or two. Even Jarro, who, as a telepath, is basically getting drunk by proxy.

They had a drawn-out knock-down fight over what to do about Bruce. Tim and Damian were in favour of attempting a resurrection (Pit or Apokalips). Dick and Jason and Cass were very much not. They’ve reached a compromise; they are not actively working on it but the body is in frozen storage with a lot of alarms on it.

Jason, who’s doing a lot better these days, took the cowl. Cass will take over eventually, but for the moment Jason is the best at maintaining the illusion of continuity. They have a cover story ready to go for Bruce Wayne’s death.

And then Jason receives the phone call, to his Oracle-secured batphone from an unknown number.

That usually means one of the other Bats on a burner, which usually means trouble, so he answers.

“Um, hi?” Not a voice he recognises, at all. “Is this Jason?”

Young. Male. Midwestern. Asking for Jason on the Batphone. Could be real trouble. “No, this is Mark,” he says. “You’ve got the wrong number.”

“He said you’d say that. Um, Jason? I have a message from your dad.”

Jason gets angry and breaks code. “My dad is dead.”

“I know,” says the voice. “He says, recognition code bee zero one, whisky delta india hotel mike… no, sorry, hotel sierra mike kilo, circumference, um… flange, uh… requirement? Requirement.”

Jason can’t say a word. Can’t breathe. It’s B’s code all right, no coercion, not compromised, and he felt the need to specify no time travel. But what he really can’t get over is the way it sounds like the kid is listening to someone prompting and correcting him, someone who’s standing there with him.

“And he says, contingency four two seven gee and… three one five? Yeah, three one five bee.”

Jason doesn’t know these from the top of his head. He rouses enough to drop Tim a quick text. Tim knows all the contingencies, the little freak.

Jason: contingencies 427g and 315b

Tim: !!!!!!!!!

Jason: what are they?

Tim: holy shit

Tim: moving to group chat

Jason swipes over to the batchat group.

Tim: jason just texted

Tim: b’s come back as a ghost

Tim: and he’s adopted again

Jason: Yeah, yeah I'm still here. So, B's a ghost huh? How'd you meet him?

Danny: Oh, um, there's a portal? To the Infinite Realms in my city. It's um, it's in my basement? My, my parents built it. I accidentally turned it on. So, so it's my job to keep everyone safe. Batman heard about it. He wanted to get back to Gotham. Um, but he um, he felt I needed help. But, I'm not, not always there. So...

Jason: Its ok kid. Take your time. Sounds like B has his hands full over there. He asking for Justice League backup?

Jason heard the muttering start again. Why wasn't B using the phone? Maybe it was a ghost thing? Something to ask the kid.

Or maybe a neon green suit with the eye-searingly pink symbol/belt. Which would obviously be irritating for him in the human world. Neon green and pink are very attention grabbing. But then in the realms he would retain his nature and ability to slip into the "shadows". The shadows here more or less just being the ambient environment which Ghost Batman still blends in to.

In a way, it would be like the Universe itself telling Batman, "No, you don't belong to this world any more. Batman belongs to the Infinite Realms now. Go back to the new shadows you fit into." Not that Bruce is going to heed that message.

Which generally leads to Bruce’s body getting “weekend at Bernie’s”-ed by his children.