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If you know the story of DeadPlants, then you can skip this part. But if ya don't, quick summary! DeadPlants.mp4 on YouTube tells the classic creepypasta story of a guy finding a free PVZ Game, only to find out later that it was haunted.

But unlike others where the monster attacks you - instead, the ghost haunting the game is a Mother who passed away and began haunting her daughter's favorite video game, PVZ. In the hopes her Darling will find the game, and they can have one last conversation before she moves on.

She sadly mistakes you - the watcher - as her daughter. She doesn't know, nor do you have the heart to tell them as she disappears from the haunted game. So then, I had this thought.

What if the Mother came back as a Ghost in the Infinite Realms? What if she had the appearance of the usual white-peashooter? What if she wanted to see her daughter one last time?

She woke up years later as a Ghost in the Infinite, and while she didn't initially have a form - the last memories of her daughter before her unexpected passing was playing with her favorite game, PVZ. So she took the form of a Peashooter ... well, with her form as the white-colored peashooter - and MUCH larger.

She was in the Infinite Realms, growing accostomed to the place, but she misses her daughter. She wants to talk to her, one last talk. And then she hears it - long after Pariah Dark has been sealed and Danny is the Ghost King ... and part of the Justice League.

She is that desperate to talk to her daughter one last time - and after appealing to Danny, he brings it up to the next meeting with the JL, bringing her along. When she shows up, everyone is obviously freaked out by the MUCH scarier appearance that she has, but calm down once they hear about her plight.

But once they ask who exactly is she the mother of ... they all stare at Batman.

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The batkids adored their newest brother, Danny Fenton. But Danny did scare them a little sometimes.

He was a really cool dude once you got to know him, and he even joined Duke on daily patrol. (Steph did join them some times.)

But the reason of why they were scared of being on his bad side was because of a little... accident.

They were on a Alfred-induced (aka Alfred forced them) vacation to a beach, and they bumped into a acquaintance of Danny, Vlad. Hee immediately tried to persuade Danny to abandon the Waynes and join him and the teen looked ready to murder, and probably would if it wasn't for Bruce.

But it's what happened next day that spooked them.

Bruce trying to tie Damian's tie: Who's that puking on his flip flops?

Danny with his back turned looking out the window: Vlad Masters~... He's got nausea, shortness of breath, blood in urine, severe illness and... death.

Dick getting concernedtm: What the hell are you reading?

1) That's his baby and a Older Man is obsessed with is very much his minor son. And nobody, much less and a man old enough to be Danny's father, will touch his baby!

2) Murder is wrong, that his (and Batman's) motto.

Danny had spent the last six years building something stable out of the Infinite Realms.

Which, honestly, still sounded ridiculous when he thought about it too hard.

At twenty years old, Danny Phantom was somehow the acting Leader of the Infinite Realms version of the League of Assassins, mediator of territorial disputes, protector of portals, the peacemaker, and — according to Frostbite — “a deeply beloved young lord.”

Danny personally thought that title lost meaning the third time he had to stop two eldritch entities from starting a war over haunted soup recipes.

Still, the system worked.

So Danny did his rounds.

Checking territories. Listening to complaints. Solving problems before they became catastrophes.

And unfortunately, that included Walker’s Prison.

Danny running away from his home dimension for such and such reasons (GIW, bad reveal, etc, etc) cue him stumbling around Gotham because holy mother of ambient ectoplasm, Batman.

So anyways he’s just chilling in crime alley, as a struggling guy in Gotham does and then. And then there’s someone else. Looks exactly like him. Not like how he and Dani look similar, her features just softer and rounded with babyfat, no, no, this guy looks exactly like him. Down to the barely there scattering of freckles on the nose bridge.

Like, Bruce seeing a boy who looks exactly like Jason, helping the homeless in Crime Alley while also being homeless? He looks and acts just like Jason. And is a perfect DNA match.

Meanwhile, Jason also sees this teen who's struggling and looks exactly like him, save the scars. He even has the same skunk streak! Jason manages to get a DNA sample as well.

Whelp, looks like he has a long lost twin brother.

They first connected cause people kept mistaking Danny as the Red Hood's lieutenant, Peter Battinson. Jason was curious, but also pissed at the thought someone was pretending to be him. But nope. It's a homeless teen who's trying his best and helping as many people as he can.

Jason goes ahead and asks Danny if he can do a DNA test, just so Danny also knows that they are apparently brothers.

Danny, knowing that they are not brothers but the same person, yet desperate for family agrees happily to connect as much as possible with Jason.

And filter out that rancid Ecto.

He refuses to move into the other's apartment though. He doesn't want to intrude on the others space, nor does he want to be seen as a burden.

It takes months for Jason to convince Danny to move in.

Because of that, Danny filtering Jason's Core, and Jason finally feeling fulfilled at having family that seems to just get him right from the get go, Jason has no time to mess with Tim and little time for the Bat. Nor does he even want to deal with them. He also hasn't been doing much with the Joker, until the stupid clown tries to attack Crime Alley.

Jason's bordering a meltdown.

The Joker is terrorizing Jason's people. The Batman (dad) was reported to be storming Jason's territory to hunt the Joker and him, because he thinks that this is somehow Jason's fault.

Danny, who's been brought into the gang as the person Hood uses to ask about the people and how they're doing (which the other members are thankful that Hood is working with the soup kitchens and trying his best to help Crime Alley), notices that his 'brother' is not okay™. Asks why and what he can do to help.

And Jason just quietly breaks down as he hears the Joker's laugh get closer to the building. Tells Danny how the Joker murdered him. How his adoptive dad disowned him because he thought Jason killed a pedophile, and didn't save him from the Joker. How his dad never avenged him. How he came back, only to find out his dad took in another kid to replace him.

Danny listens.

And his blood boils.

His eyes burn and toxic green.

And when the Joker bursts through the door, manic eyes zeroing in on the two lone teens, cackling, "I fooouuund yoouuuu! Hahahahahah hahahahahahaha!"

Danny's maw was already filled with fangs. His nails tipped like claws and dipped in shadows. Hair caught in a sudden, turbulent wind that whipped the door behind the Joker closed. When the cops could finally pry the doors open, the scene was covered in red and no one else at the horrific murder.

~

Jason and Danny talked. Danny knew Jason had his own secrets. He had his own. But Jason revealed pieces of himself.

That he was Jason Todd, not Peter. That he was raised by 'their' dad and his step mom Catherine. Dad went to prison and his mom, Catherine died of cancer she couldn't afford to treat.

That, when he was 13 and homeless, he was adopted by a billionaires named Bruce Wayne who was secretly the vigilante known as Batman. That he'd become the second Robin. He was on a case to bring in a pedophile but saw no reason why people like that should live. And despite that, Jason had tried to save the man's life when he slipped off a roof, but was too late. But from his father's perspective, it looked like Jason had pushed the man off. So he had rejected Jason, no matter how much he pleaded his innocence.

Leading Jason to seek out his birth mother. Who lured him into a trap, which backfired as the Joker wanted her dead too. How Jason came back to life to find out he was buried next to the woman who betrayed him instead of being in the Wayne cemetery. How he had to claw his way out of the grave six months after being put into it. Only to be hit by a car as soon as he exited the graveyard.

How he'd come back to Gotham after a few years, only to find out the Joker was still alive to kill other people and that his dad replaced him.

(Danny thinks that Bruce Wayne is Vlad Masters equivalent in this world. Which immediately makes him hate the dude, cause what the hell? You had the perfect son you always wanted and you pushed him away, which caused his death!)

Jason asks how Danny was related to the Lazarus Pits. Which confuses Danny. So Jason explains that theirs a green liquid that brings the deathly ill, and sometimes the dead or undead, to full health and living status.

Danny decides that he'll give a partial truth, considering he knows Jason still hasn't revealed everything. He explains that 'their' mom was a scientist that worked for the government studying the fabric between realities with her husband. They discovered a substance that was like green, glowing water and that the in-between dimension was made of it. It was that dimensions version of carbon. And that was where souls went when they died. Mom called the souls Ghosts and hunted them for experimentation. But that she and Danny's dad made a portal to be able to research this in-between dimension.

Only... it didn't work. Not at first, anyways.

Not until Danny died accidentally turning it on, at 14.

"And where was Shelia? Why'd she let you around such dangerous machines, let alone have them in the basement of the house you lived in? What'd she do when you... died?" Jason felt sick. While he was jumping around Gotham rooftops, his brother died. He didn't even know about the other, but still.

"... She didn't even notice. Not for a long time anyways."

"Oh." And for lack of words, Jason asked, "Where's your grave? Might be nice to see if I can get mine moved next to yours. Or yours can be moved next to mine? Sorry, that's weird to ask."

"Haha! Oh my God, no worries dude! That's actually really sweet. But ummm..."

"But?"

"I don't have a grave. I wasn't even buried. My parents didn't even notice I died, remember? They were so focused on the new Portal working, that by the time they even saw me again I had came back to... Mostly full health."

"You know what? I wanted to move my grave anyways. I hate that it's next to that woman even more than I already did. Pick a nice place and I'll move my grave and get you one too. Right next to it."

Danny just stares at him, stunned. His eyes slowly welling with tears.

Then he lunges at Jason, wrapping his arms around his brother's neck.

"Dude. Dude. What the fuck? Why are you so nice? Dude. Do you mean it? Really? You'd move your grave and make me one? Really? I have the best brother. Ever. Oh my God."

He knows Jason is looking for a new place to move his grave and give Danny one, but he wants to visit Jason's original grave. It means so much to even have one, so Danny wanted to honor it. Do the traditional thing of putting flowers, putting the headstone, running fingers over the words, and talking to it. Even if there was no longer a body. He wanted his brother to feel loved, and the dead feel no love stronger than through a form of memorial.

It must suck to be a protective spirit and not even have your grave in your Haunt.

(But Jason had made it clear that Park Row, otherwise known as Crime Alley, was not where he wanted his grave. And not where he wanted his brother's. Danny suggested buying an abandoned farm in Illinois and have their graves there. Jason looked at him funny, until he explained that that's where he grew up and is the complete opposite of Gotham. Sunny, mostly clear skies, easy star gazing, no crime, and it'd be like out of a fairy tale. It'd also be a good safe house, in case anything ever happened.

Danny also explained how, if they put their graves there, visited at least once a month, and put magic sigils up, it'd be near impossible for anyone who they didn't allow to get into the property. Jason looked impressed that Danny knew any magic, let alone how to use it. Danny created a little green light at the end of his index to prove that he could. Jason didn't seem to like that it turned his eyes green, but Danny understands. How could he not when Jason had worriedly told him about his violent episodes after being in the 'Lazarus Pits'?)

The grave was kept cleaner than most. He kinda felt grateful for that. An aged and overgrown grave was seen as sacred and Danny wouldn't have wanted Jason to have to give that up. Maybe Danny should recommend covering their graves with moss, as it'd cover everything quickly? Or maybe clover, which would be less aggressive but give good coverage and be soft to lay on?

"I miss star gazing. Gotham's never been good for it, you know? Little sad you were buried here, since you made it so clear you wanted to leave this city, but felt obligated to stay. I understand, though. Even though you always said how you feel like you're never doing enough, you saved lives. You still do, even if indirectly. You could never truly leave Gotham when you felt like you had to help. I uh, brought daisies. Know how much you liked 'em. Know you'll probably never see 'em. But it's the thought that counts, right? Not like I can get dandelions, like you'd really want. I'd probably be charged with littering. Everyone else considers it a weed. But I know how much you love seeing them. Knew how you used to like picking them and trying to press them like regular flowers when they were covered in seeds to "save your wishes". Park Row may still be a slum, but there's still good people trying their best to get through it all. Just got off another shift at the soup kitchen on the corner of Gale. You're favorite one, that'd always give you an extra roll of bread. Even if it was because they knew it'd keep you out the next day. Well, I need to get going. It's getting dark and we both know that's dangerous in Gotham. Bye, big brother."

An inside joke the two had, since Jason's birthday is the day before Danny's. Obviously, Jason thought that their mother just had a really long labor, or that they were born closer to midnight, just on either side of it.

Dick Grayson, as Nightwing, was in a nearby tree crying. Jason had a little brother, or twin, he'd never told anyone about. Had probably hidden from the family due to not trusting anyone. And said brother came to visit Jason's grave, with clearly bought daisies despite being homeless, to just chat like the other boy could still hear him. Dick's domino recorded the entire thing, so Barbara and Bruce could definitely see this.

Knowing that your little brother had family and didn’t think he could trust you with it is a different type of guilt. 

It’s a guilt in knowing that those tires he was going to steal off your fathers car wasn’t just meant for a quick turn around, that it was meant to sustain an entire other person. It’s knowing that Jason had likely allowed himself to be taken in as a trial run before deeming it safe enough for his sibling. It’s knowing that Jason had found it lacking. It’s knowing that the Wayne’s may have held his wellbeing in their hands but they never held his trust.

And maybe, just maybe, Jason was right for that. 

Dick watches a young scrappy thing settle in front of Jason’s grave. The boy looks just like his brother. Only older. Not fifteen. He looks like a Jason Todd who finally grew into his big hands and broad shoulders. Dick could almost pretend this stranger is his little brother. Almost. 

He's sat on the uncomfortable ground. Dick knows its uncomfortable, he’s sat there too on the anniversary that Bruce refuses to leave the manor on. Too busy staring at a suit in a glass case, waiting, listening, hoping for that bell like laughter to chime once again in the stale air of the cave. He knows because he’s sat there in that very spot that boy is in and played music from bands his little brother liked, read him his favorites until his voice went hoarse, the classics that Dick could never quite enjoy with all their complicated flowery language. 

But there that haggard teenager is, tired and still finding it within himself to gently hold a bouquet in his calloused palm placing it on the tomb of his brother like its the most important thing he’ll ever do. There’s a slim smile on the boys lips as he reads over Jason’s engraved name, running his finger tips across it. His smile is small and soft. Private in a way that Dick knows he’s intruding upon just by laying witness.

And then, then he speaks.

He talks casually, like its any other conversation. Like he isn’t in a grave yard. Like Jason Todd isn’t six feet beneath him. He talks about stargazing, talks about Jason wanting to leave behind Gotham, staying because he felt he had to. He talks about daisies and dandelions. He says goodbye to his big brother and Dick thinks that it must feel agonizing to be older than your big sibling. To reach an age they never did and still keep going with out them. 

Jason Todd had a little brother and Dick Grayson never knew. There has always been anger simmering beneath his skin and Dick has always been good at anger but he’s better at grief. Guilt has always come easy and this is no different. 

*

“No, shut up this is so not funny. I don’t even know what I did but now I’ve got a bird on my tail and he won’t stop making sad eyes at me Jay.”

“It’s a little bit funny.”

“You’re an asshole.”

“You are too so I think it might be genetic.”

“Insufferable. Really. By the way, do you know how hard it is to try and lose the Wayne’s attention? I swear it’s like someone left me in a wet cardboard box on the side of the road and they just thought ‘yeah, you’re coming home with me’ like I’m some pathetic half drowned cat.”

“It’s too late for them, I already took you home first. Finders keepers.”

Danny groaned and slumped into his brothers shoulder “tell them that. Besides, isn’t Nightwing supposed to be based in Bludhaven? Whats he doing in Gotham?” 

“Yeah, but he’s Nightwing. He does his own thing. At least Robin isn’t onto you yet.”

“And there you go jinxing it. Watch he’s going to show up while I’m out and about and scold me for being affiliated with you.”

“Well that little shit can go eat rocks. He already stole everything else, he’s not allowed to steal my little brother too.”

“We’re only a few hours apart.”

“You’ll always be a baby in my eyes, Danny.”

Reading the continued anger and stress over killing Jason was a surprise. But it was mainly rooted in fears of Batman breaking. Of no longer fighting the man running around rooftops.

It pissed Jason off to no end.

Only guilt the clown reject had ever felt was over the thought of Bruce not playing the game anymore.

He kept reading. And reading. And reading.

From Batman getting a new Robin to how the Bat was finally playing the game the 'correct' way again.

Then, how the new Robin was worse than the last one.

Not because he was scared or anything. Nope. It's because the kid refused to play the games Joker set up. Trying his best to quickly shut everything down as soon as he found out the Joker's plans. Making Joker himself the butt of the joke, on many occasions. Jason become particularly interested in the fact the Joker believed that the new Robin would kill him if they were alone. How the teen had tried to break the Joker's bones to keep the crazed freak in Arkham longer.

Then, Jason read an entry that made his spine crawl.

Plans to kidnap the new Robin. To make him his 'son', because Harley wanted a kid. Ideas of how he could use the kid against the Bat.

Then, more entries. Entries upon entries of how he had kidnapped the baby bird. 'Played' with his new 'son' by electrocuting the boy. Made said child intake more than the lethal dose of Joker Venom. How he'd caught all of it on camera, to send to the Batman.

Again and again.

For days.

For weeks.

For almost a whole month.

How the Joker started to doubt if Batman even cared for the new Robin.

Jason started to doubt too.

Maybe he needed to take this bird for himself.

~

He decided on actually doing a background check into Timothy Drake.

What he finds is... concerning.

Tim wasn't even 3 months old when Jack and Janet left for excavation site in Greece. Left with a nursemaid and nanny. That the new parents had only come back every few months, stayed for less than a week, then left for another dig. They stopped paying for a nanny by the time Tim was 5, leaving only a maid, who's only job was cleaning and making food. And as Tim got older, the maid was there less and less. There are several reports of a tiny Tim taking the public bus to and from school.

And then, 6 months after Jason had died, 13 year-old Tim Drake had left Gotham for half a year. After that, he came back and there was a new Robin.

Jason was stunned. Bruce didn't train Tim. At least, not for those 6 months. He made a kid miss school. The kid's parents didn't even seem to notice. Then the kid's mother dies, and yet Robin is still flying in Gotham. Tim's family lost their wealth while his father was in a coma. Said father was quick to remarry. But looking at their lives, nothing seems to connect father and son other than their blood. There's even forums on Reddit questioning if Jack Drake was abusing his kid, given how Tim makes it very clear he doesn't trust his father.

Yeah, no. Jason doesn't care if Tim was meant to be his replacement. The kid clearly has no one.

"Uh, no dude. At least, not all the time. I don't want to barely ever see you. Plus, I like helping at the soup kitchens."

"If we're kidnapping Timmy, you're the most mentally stable. And a different location entirely is needed, cause no way is the kid staying in Gotham. It'd be too easy for the Bat to get him again. On top of that, I'll be there for a full week every month. As long as there isn't a trafficking ring I need to bust."

"That seems logical but does not bode well with your track record."

"On top of all that? I want you safe."

"You know I'm borderline indestructible? More so than you, at least."

"But the Bats will hunt you down if they ever realize you're the one that killed Joker."

"Won't it be more suspicious if I suddenly disappear? And you know Tim won't want to be gone so long."

"You can come back for a week every month, I'll go to the farm for a week every month to charge the magic wards or whatever our graves are going to be there for. Halfway through my week over there, you'll go to Gotham. I'll have a half week alone with with Tim for bonding time on the farm. You'll get a half week in Gotham without babysitting. When I return to the city, I'll bring Tim to Gotham for the other half of your week. I'll let Tim spend a full week in Gotham which will half be with you there and the other half without. I'll bring Tim back to the Farm on the last day."

"That's at least a 14 hour drive where Tim could surprise you and take you down to return to Gotham. And it's super complicated. Now, by plane ride, it's pretty quick and you'd have too many people watching for him to make a scene. And you'll have to be there for the first month, or so, anyways because Tim won't trust me. At least with you there, you can tell him you're just making Bruce sweat and giving him the chance to take a break from the mask. Ancients knows he needs one, but he's not going to believe just me. And if you leave too soon, he'll feel abandoned. Tell your group that you'll be gone for three months, then we'll talk about logistics. Maybe it could be the three of us going to Gotham for a week every month and the rest is spent on the Farm? Then when we trust Tim is safer and trusts us a bit, we let him go back to the Bats. Obviously, with the blanket permission to use Red Hood as a safe house from the Bats and the ability to go to the Farm any time he wants to run off. He's a teen. He's gotta want to run away sometimes. And we'll give him the space to do so."

"I don't know about three months. Maybe two? How about after the first month, we rehash all of this? He'll need a way to do school, and summer break is only so long, even for the rich."

"Fair. But on that note, I really don't like the implications of his attendance records. Or his disciplinary records. Falling asleep in class so much is the stereotype of a teen vigilante without a proper schedule. And delinquency? I got labeled that for defending myself against bullies cause I was considered weird. I mean, I am weird. But it didn't mean that I deserved to be hurt by others. And the same should be for Tim."

"I'll offer to tutor him in English, and help with any language or arts."

"I'll cover math and science."

"While we're on the topic. How do you feel about going back to school? Just online courses."

You know what would be interesting?

Danny realizing that Jason isn't the alternate version of him. But an alternate version of Jasmine.

Jason canonically has a brother named Danny (though he's supposed to be older than him.) and had red hair before the Pits. It's even shown up after he became Red Hood in some timelines.

Which means that Jason has probably been dying his hair to mess with Bruce and Dick.

Danny realizes after he finds Jason re-dying said hair. He asks that, after they grab Tim and prove that the man was the second Robin and could be trusted, if Jason could stop dying it?

Answer? Yes. (I'm also setting this to maybe just before the Joker dying.)

~

On another note, Danny tells a few of the kids he usually reads to at the library that he'll be leaving Gotham soon. When the kids ask, he says that he'll be going to a farm.

One of the kid's pet had recently died and their parents initially said they sent it to a farm. Of course, they caught on and called their parents out. But Danny's a person, he wouldn't make the same excuses. Right?

"Um? Mister Danny?"

"Yes hun?"

"Are you... are you sick?"

"I don't look that bad, do I? Haha, no worries. I'm a bit under the weather, but that's just cause I have a heart condition."

Danny was feeling under the weather, but it was because his Death day was coming up. He wanted to leave for the farm before that, but it would be a time crunch.

Meanwhile, the kids tell their parents about it. But the parents, and subsequent friends and co-workers they tell, are convinced Danny's just moving and kids accidentally connected two unrelated things.

Except, Danny's Death day decided to start early, due to a lack of ambient ectoplasm.

The Red Hood Gang had to drag Danny to one of their doctors, as he had started seizing at one of the soup kitchens. But everyone heard about how said doctor couldn't save him. That the seizures kept getting worse.

It was also discovered that Danny was Red Hood's brother. And that the supposed lieutenant, was actually the Red Hood himself.

The members talked about how Danny tried to reassure the man that he was fine. That he was just really sick and how this happened often enough to not be a concern.

Now, so many in Crime Alley are devastated. They don't know how Red Hood would even react if they held a memorial. But apparently, he had left Gotham with Danny's body.

He had told his subordinates he'd be gone for May two months and to only contact him if there was an emergency.

~

Dick, hearing about Danny's 'death', was devastated. And angry. Why did Red Hood's men take him? Why didn't they get him to a proper hospital? Barbara and Tim are hacking the camera in the makeshift clinic to try to figure out what was going on.

Only for them to reveal a video of the Red Hood storming in, holding Danny close, begging not to lose another brother.

The man, who had tossed his helmet to the side, was begging and crying.

"Please! Please! Not you! Not you too! I can't! Can't lose another! Please! You're all I have left! Please!"

"Peter. It's okay. I won't leave. * Wet Cough* I'll be alright. Peter. Peter please, don' cry."

And suddenly, so many things made sense. Setting up on Crime Alley. Antagonizing Batman for how he treated his Robins. Calling Tim a replacement. Saying the Gotham vigilantes treated children like soldiers and cannon fodder. Threats about the new Robin, and how Batman better keep a good eye on him.

And 'Peter' had red hair and teal eyes, but looked almost exactly like Danny. As if he were a Jason that didn't dye his hair.

Dick realizing he failed to save another brother, while also having a new one that hated him for Jason's death? Oh boy, does he feel like a wreck. He's also debating on just grabbing 'Peter' and leaving him incarcerated in the Bat Cave's emergency holding cells.

He goes to the graveyard Jason was buried in. To say sorry. To beg for forgiveness. To leave flowers. To see if Danny even got to be buried next to said brother.

The longer he stares at what should be his brothers tombstone the further his stomach sinks. Those volatile sickening feelings with it. The ground beneath his feet seems to fall away. There’s a hole in his heart and God, it only seems to grow. Its maw yawning wider and wider because Jason is gone. He’s gone again and Dick hadn’t been there to catch him this time either. 

His baby brother is dead and there isn’t even a grave.

His baby brother is dead and there isn’t even a grave.

The only thing he can think is No as childish as it is. Because that was his brother. His little brother who already had too much taken from him and this too, was stolen from him. Stolen from the hands of a dead boy who died craving acceptance, trust, for something that Bruce couldn’t - wouldn’t - give him. 

Dick knows that game. Knows it so, so, well. Knows it well enough he moved to a separate city to get away from it. Jason was fifteen. He hadn’t had the chance. Wally says that it isn’t his fault.

Distantly, he knows Bruce is on the phone - that he’s still speaking to him. He hears his fathers deep tones barking through the speaker even if none of it registers. Dick's eyes drift to the side of the upturned dirt and the heavy indent where the engraved stone had once sat. Sheila Haywood's tombstone remains untouched beside the empty plot.

*

Okay but imagine being a Gothamite at this time. 

Bruce Wayne's son's grave has been robbed and Batman is carving a warpath. Not that any one puts these two (to the public at large at least) seemingly unrelated things together. Every one knows Batman had gone on that infamous downward spiral after Robin had died and this, this is all too reminiscent of that. People are scared. But Robin isn’t dead. Robin is right there by Batman’s side. Nightwing with his crackling lightning escrima sticks flanking him as well.

So who’s gone this time?

This was also the perfect time to steal away a certain bird.

"And, maybe -if you end up in Gotham, I mean- you can offer to bring some of the mother's and kids here? I know your obsession is based in protecting others. Just like mine is. It'd probably be better for us if we made some of them our neighbors. But it's mainly for protecting kids. So. If we have them taken away from Gotham, they'd immediately be safer! Of course, don't let me dictate how you manage your Haunt! But-"

"Way ahead of you, bit-bite. I actually bout a lot of the abandoned land around here. Funny enough, we're currently in a ghost town."

Danny snorted.

"I know. Perfect." Jason said dryly. "There's so few original locals here, that it wasn't an issue to buy up nearly the whole damn place! I had also gotten everything inspected and up to code. I even have places where businesses can start! Like dinners and gas stations. This place actually gets a lot more people than you'd think passing by. So small places should be good. There's even a library and an old defined school I got updated!"

"Please tell me you stole all that from Luther."

"Just like you said to."

"Sweet! That means that we can have plenty of people begin to move in. Start a small economy. Make things seem more legit after a while. And get farming started! Which means that people will be able to leave when they get back on their feet. And it'll be near impossible to influence anyone with drugs and crime. This solves so many issues! You do realize, though, that it's unlikely everyone will trust this. And you can't target too many supports in Crime Alley, otherwise their delicate balance will collapse. It's hell now. I don't want to see how much worse it could become."

"Yeah. I realized that too. I can't have too many hop over here and settle down. Especially since we need jobs to get started, before more jobs become available. Especially in the farming aspect. But I can't take too many of my men to start, otherwise I'd be leaving the Alley without defenses."

"Just stop in with them first. Ask only one or two families you know will come. Or, ask those who already have established businesses if they'd want to expand by starting up here? But getting enough people to come with the promise of a safer living environment is what we need to focus on as our end goal. We won't be able to clear out Crime Alley, as too many have set their roots down and can't imagine leaving. You need to make doubly sure, that none of it will be tracked by the Bat. Taking his bird will piss him off and we wouldn't want him hurting innocent people."

~

Jason, on the phone with some of his subordinates. "How do you feel about me moving a bunch of the women and children out of the Alley and getting them to live in rural houses?"

"When can we move? The sooner the better, honestly. The Bat is going nuts, and Nightwing is even more feral than his Robin days."

"O-kay? That's strange. Speaking of the baby bird, how's Robin doing?"

"We all figured he was holed up somewhere. It's pretty obvious if he sneaks out to patrol, as Batman becomes even more violent."

"That's actually nice to hear. Kid's staying safe and off the streets. Which is what we're also hoping to do with this new project. Hey, Macy has her teaching license, right? Was thinking of starting a school out here too. Internet is kinda crap out here."

"Macy. Donovan. Michael. Rihanna. Mia. And a few others. I'll get stuff set up and see about getting people for jobs put there first. But it's gonna be a bit slow. Don't want them thinking we're trafficking people. Nightwing might actually break the no killing rule."

"Great. I'll be watching over Danny until I'm sure there's neighbors out here. Then I'll come back to check on everyone."

"Danny's alive? Gimmie a sec." The man on the other side of the line dragged the phone from his face, put a hand over the mic to prevent blowing it out or deafening his boss, and called out to the others in the warehouse. "Guys! Guys! Danny's alive!"

And suddenly, Jason hears clamoring and cheering. How is he's and is Danny alright? Jason feels so thankful his people adore Danny almost as much as he does.

This ... Does mean that there will probably be fights on who's going to get here first.

They were already going to fight anyways. It's a chance at a better life with actual jobs and food. But the Alley always was loyal to it's own. And her people will be chomping at the bit to see Danny safe with their own two eyes.

Once that was fully started, the next step would be getting Tim.

~

A part of him still wanted to look around Gotham when he had arrived. It wasn't assured he'd even be able to come back, once he moves as many of Crime Alley out of the smog as he can convince. He knows this is Danny being just as protective of him as Jason was of Danny.

It felt nice to be so loved.

He walked around as Peter. Red hair enough of it's own disguise. The J that was once on his cheek nearly gone with enough lazer treatment and some make-up. Only to have wound back in front of the graveyard he used to be buried in.

Call it curiosity, but Jason had to peek at what he left behind.

The sight actually made him pause

A hand creeped up to cover his mouth. He hunched forwards, nearly nauseous. He knew his eyes had blown out wide.

"What. The. Fuck."

The hole made him want to crawl back to the farm house he bought and curl up where he knew he put his grave. He now understood why Danny was adamant on making sure Jason was okay with moving it. There was something... wrong in what Jason was feeling. But he couldn't be happier where he had moved it. Jason's sure Danny was right, and he'd feel better when more of his people came to live closer.

But he couldn't stay.

Not here.

Not now.

It was too much.

Especially as he felt the shift in the air, telling him he wasn't alone.

"I can't. I'm sorry. I can't."

I love your takes on Tim getting yoinked. You understand exactly that I wanted Tim to just feel loved and safe while Bruce and Dick are so angsty and angry and guilt ridden.

Literally a week after Danny's thought to have died and the Bat's find out Jason's grave is missing.

When 'Peter' comes back from who knows where, stumbles into the graveyard, and seems to have a mental breakdown at the sight of his brother's grave missing? The Bat Family are trying to figure out a way to grab him and get him off the streets.

But, instead of going out and patrolling as Red Hood, he spends two days helping people in Crime Alley pack. Word spreads quickly around the Alley, saying how Red Hood doesn't think he can protect everyone here. How he's leaving Gotham and only going to check up now and again. Refusing to tell anyone where he's left to, other than that it's where Danny had wanted to move before all this.

Then, one night they finally let Robin fly again (mostly cause the knew Tim would just sneak out on his own otherwise).

And it was just a moment.

A single moment of not looking at their littlest bird.

And he was gone.

The last thing Oracle could get from his domino mask was Tim turning around and seeing Red Hood. Then, it cuts to black. None of their trackers are working.

There's the slightest possibility that Peter didn't kill Tim.

But they know that it would track, given all the recent trauma. Having one brother die as Robin, then the other die to seizures, only to find someone stole your other brother's grave? Plus, all the threats that were made before. The ones they thought were just Peter trying to get the Bats to watch their newest bird better, like they didn't do for the one before.

Dick was going insane.

How could everything go so wrong so quickly?

~

Bruce, on the other hand, is kicking himself for even doing the whole test on Tim's 16th birthday, right before all this happened. He felt worse for never apologizing.

Now, he might never get the chance.

~

Meanwhile, Tim gets woken up by a cow licking his face. All he remembers is Hood tranquilizing him. And Peter and Danny are rough housing in a bed of clovers and grass. Tim even sees Jason's tombstone on a new plot in the backyard he's in, with another grave labeled Daniel Fenton next to it.

And, for a moment, Tim thinks he's died and gone to a sort of heaven.

He's still not convinced he's fully alive as time drags on in the farmhouse. It's the only house in the area that actually connects to the wider farmlands and areas they have cattle and such. All the other houses are miles away in their own little community. With all of them being people who once lived in Crime Alley.

It was so much sunnier here.

Jason, as who he thought was Peter but was corrected, would fuss at him to wear sunscreen. Danny took him out stargazing

The name felt like another point towards the theory he was dead. But he didn't want to ruin the mood by bringing it up. Especially since he's pretty sure it was Peter that killed him.

Danny and Jason were really good at hand to hand combat. So they taught Tim. They taught him how to prowl through the tall grass and how to use a variety of guns on a range.

Jason even helped him with literature comprehension. After a debate with Danny between themes on a book they were reading lead to Tim revealing it was all gibberish to him. When Jason had joked about sneaking off to do patrols on school nights, Tim had corrected him and said he had missed a lot of school because Batman needed him. The look of devastation had lead to Tim quickly asking Jason if he could help him catch up on everything he needed to know.

Even though it's not like he'd go to school the next year.

Danny had taken that as the chance to teach him engineering and chemistry, as well as math and any science he thought Tim should know. From advanced biology to inter-dimesional travel. And took to even making a 'Portal' with him.

The schematics seemed otherworldly. And the math hurt his brain to look at.

Jason seemed really happy that they were getting along though. When he wasn't busy, the three of them would garden.

Though, how Jason could stand to garden when he spent all day helping set up the larger farm lands with the people in town, Tim didn't know. Maybe it helped that Danny had created seeds for super plants that didn't take long to grow but capped their growth after a certain height? Maybe because this was the afterlife and nothing had to make sense?

Tim didn't really know, but he hid himself away to take a good cry at how loved he felt.

If this was what life after death was like, he hoped his mother and father had found ones just as happy. Even if they weren't part of his.

~

Danny had heard the crying. He knew it wasn't from fear or stress. Quite the opposite. Danny could feel it was of love and relief. But it still didn't make Danny feel good.

"He probably just misses Gotham, Danny. I'm surprised he hasn't tried to run off or contact Bruce yet."

"Well, the portal is almost done. It's only been this long cause I was trying to teach Tim. But I'll just finish it up so you two can travel between places faster."

"I'm genuinely worried for how smart you are. How did you not become a rogue?"

"Technically was, for a bit. Was a vigilante too, but that was hell in a hand basket. Mainly cause I delt with the dead and undead."

"And being undead is considered it's own crime."

Danny snorted and Jason cracked a grin.

~

"Hey, Tim. The portal is almost done. I decided to just finish it up real quick, since I thought you must be missing Gotham. I'll teach you how to make a complete portal next time, okay?"

"Wait, what? I can go visit?"

"Yeah, of course! We didn't want you stuck here forever if you didn't want to stay. We just thought that you needed a break from the Bat. If you want to stay longer, that's okay. But Jason is going to go to Gotham anyways to check on the people still in the Alley. You can come back with him or you can stay there. And you can come back anytime you want. You'll always have a place here."

"Are you sure?"

"Course!"

~

The portal knocked Tim out going through it.

Jason had been holding on to the other, in case of anything happening. So he was easily able to catch the kid. Danny had warned that it could happen, because the kid had no ectoplasm and was probably never exposed to it.

He dragged the kid to the Alley clinic. Sue him, he wasn't going to take the chance it could be something more serious than just the inability to comprehend the spaces between reality.

When Tim woke up and called him Peter, Jason assumed it was because there were people around and they needed to keep up the disguise.

~

When Tim woke up later that night, with Red Hood over him in a clinic, he assumes he had died to an overdose of tranquilizer and Danny and Jason sent him back.

"Hey baby bird." Peter said, tired and clearly worried. "You were out longer than you should have been. Glad to see you're okay."

And Peter hugged him.

They really were triplets. Their hugs all felt the same. Holding him tightly and close to their hearts, despite the danger he possessed.

~

That night saw Red Hood and Robin working together. Patrolling like it was something they'd always done. And Hood was quick to protect and defend the teen bird. And just as quick to get them out of areas when they heard the Bats coming.

~

By morning, Tim Drake found himself standing at the front door of the Wayne Manor, asking Alfred if he could come in.

He doesn't tell them much. Other than Red Hood accidentally gave him too much in the tranquilizer and how the man was just trying to make sure nothing would happen to Robin while the Bats were acting eratic.

And then to come back and automatically figure that Peter Red Hood killed him by accident? Wonderful. He probably thinks Jason and Danny didn't want Tim's death on their last living brother Peter's conscience and that's why they sent him back.

But they DID say that Tim could come back anytime he wanted. So how do you return to heaven? Cue Tim orchestrating more Near-Death-Experiences for himself so that he can see Jason and Danny again.

Damian.

I was going to have Talia look at how Bruce was acting and go, "Hell no!" And take Damian to Jason on the farm. After all, if he's willing to take custody of Tim, then surely he'd take his littlest brother too? Look Damian, they're training! No killing here, you need to learn from them. You remember Jason? Your big brother is taking care of all his little brother right now and that includes you.

Jason pulls Danny and Tim aside to explain that Bruce's biological son is going to stay with them. That he was raised in a death cult. Tim knows about the League of Assassins. Knows Talia is Bruce's ex wife. Jason confirms that he's Talia's son, and that he's going to be here because there was an attack on Ra's that killed him. Talia wasn't going to revive her father with the pits. But Talia can't bring Damian back right now. (Tim wishes that part was explained more.)

Damian, there two weeks before his birthday so he's only 9, has a baby version of Bruce's face. Jason introduces him to the other two.

Tim's face is very obviously sad for a moment, before he smiles and greets Damian. "I'm sad we met like this, but I'm so happy to get the chance to know you now."

Everyone takes this to mean Tim wishes he could have been there for Damian earlier in his life. Tim thinks Damian died before Bruce ever got to meet him.

Damian and Jason leave for a bit. Apparently, Damian wanted to see Gotham for a moment. The brothers were worried he'd run off on his own and disappear. (Tim takes this as Ghosts wouldn't be able to withstand being alone in Gotham too long.)

Jason and Damian come back with a cow they took from a slaughterhouse. Damian calls her Bat-cow, given the pattern across her face mimicking the famous insignia like a domino mask. (This becomes another point to being dead.)

Danny become the general science teacher for the town. Damian starts going to school there, just so he can start getting used to having peers.

Tim made a birthday cake with Danny and Jason's help, as they made a solely vegetarian dinner for the boy. They sang happy birthday and Tim gave Damian a quick scarf he had made in the last two weeks. It was his first time doing things like this. He was so happy to have a family and was happy that he could tell Damian was warming up to them all faster than he probably would have in the manor.

Damian was like a cat; he didn't want to be held and he didn't want to be viewed as weak or less than. The trauma was obvious to Tim, and part of him wished he could break Talia's face with his bare hands.

~

When Tim goes back to Gotham, he's suddenly vegetarian and asking Bruce if anything recently happened almost two months ago with the League of Assassins. Which gets Bruce paranoid and he finds out about the attack. He also finds out Talia had a son that was involved, but no pictures to see the boy's face.

Tim confesses everything that happened while 'dead' to Steph and says how he does know how to bring up Damian to Bruce.

After Red Hood takes Tim again, for his reckless behavior, Stephanie tells the Bats.

"I think he was trying to die again."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Tim was very sure that he died to an overdose from the tranquilizer. Said he met Jason, Danny, and a boy named Damian. He said Damian arrived there shortly after he did. Because of an attack on the League of Assassins, and that Talia couldn't bring him back. He said- he said that he didn't know how to bring it up to you. How to ask if you knew Talia had your son. Or that he'd died two weeks before his birthday."

Calling Talia on the Bat computer only made them feel it was confirmed when she confirmed there had been an attack on the League.

"I was going to introduce you to him on his teeth birthday. That didn't happen. Now, Damien is with Jason and Danny. I hope they do a better job of protecting him than I could."

Then she hung up.

To them, Talia had broken her mask and shown a form of grief.

They also realized Tim was trying to commit suicide to rejoin the other boys.

In life, itself.

Jason explains to Danny about how Tim thought this was the afterlife and was trying to kill himself to come back. Both are really touched but also disturbed that Tim didn't feel he had people that loved him in life. Enough to stay alive, at least.

Damian, on the other hand, is listening in while shakily petting a chicken. He's very distressed. But also feels very loved. Dying, especially killing one's self, was considered dishonorable among the League.

But Tim had wanted to die if it ment he could see them again? Immediately, Tim gets seen as the most loyal brother. And the one that needs to be reassured that Damian wants him around. Jason and Danny will let Damian's words roll of their back like water off a duck's. But Tim needs care. Just like the animals Damian has grown to love.

Bruce gets lost in the time stream.

Everyone comes from the farm to help Dick feel less alone.

Dick is so fucking happy, after his brain reboots and shit gets explained to him. I mean, yeah, his dad's dead. But Jason, Danny, and Damian are all alive! A Peter was an alias Jason was using. And Tim's in therapy!

Though, he most definitely thinks Tim needs more therapy. The kid's going on about Bruce being lost in time itself! But Danny believes him? As does Jason and Damian?

Only for Danny to build a portal, after he and Tim ran all around Europe and picked up Cass during a very tough moment no one will tell him about, and drag the Wayne out. And when Darkseid tried to attack the boys for ruining his plans? Pulled out a thermos and dragged his ass inside it. Then welded it shut.

It took Bruce a bit to not also believe he was dead.

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Something we don't see enough in the crossover is the effect growing up in Fenton Works has on Danny.

And No, I'm not talking about the hazardous materials and bountiful lab safety violations, I'm talking about the sheer amount of weapons tucked into the most random spots. I mean they have a literally armory in the basement, there's a machine gun in the cupboard and several in the walls, his dad kept a bazooka in the shower, etc.

So Danny grew up extremely used to finding and ignoring weapons stashed in a room. Which has incredibly funny potential if he's visiting idk maybe Jason, as a supposed civilian. And just casually pulls out a stashed weapon, fidgets with it for a while then put it back. All subconsciously without looking, or even realizing what he's doing.

Exact reaction would probably depend on the character, but I think the other person is probably both amused and concerned.

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.

The business in question is more of a cheat since being king of the infinite Realms means he is fluent in any language to exist. Safe, dead, or extinct the status of a language doesn't matter to him. With Technus's help he sets up and online portal where people can submit pictures or copies of stuff for him to translate at a premium price. He refuses to take any money from the fruit loop and the money he learns will go towards his clone's schooling when she gets to that point. Right now she is using it for her travels and sending them postcards.

People who claim his translations as their own get black listed with a huge fee coming out of their bank account for the breach of contract. He is trying to keep his business on the down low so those breakthroughs that get on the news are not what he is looking for. His main demographic is rich snobs with private art collections. What Danny doesn't know is that his main customers are the Justice League.

There are some clues but he kinda ignores them. Like when a document submitted is a summoning ritual he sends back a partial translation since the summoning is not good (there are worst beings they could summon but it will still be a hassle) however revealing knowledge of the banishment is harmless.

Gotham cultists hate him because they know he can translate the whole document/book but all of their attempts to trace the sage of tongues (trying to give invisobill kinda vibes) they find a dead end. They try submitting from different computers, locations, routers, anything, but just end up giving Danny more money lol

The Justice League is almost in tears because the jusyice league dark could not agree on the translation of the banishment ritual and everything they tried before had failed.

His favorite translations are the stories that give alien vibes. They talk about certain structures (he thinks it might be structures) as if they are common knowledge. Unknown to him those are Kryptonian fairy tales that Lois submitted. She didn't want to give Jon a funny accent so Clark can read them in Kryptonian while she does the English.

Duke having a hard time with an assignment, sends an inquiry asking if he offers homework help (he wouldn't be using it for career advancement which is against the terms of service BUT he would be claiming it for points so he asked) and that is how Tim finds out about this sketchy website that can translate anything. Danny feels the sincerity and sleep deprivation in the inquiry so he replies back "I admire your courage and will do you a solid but only if your promise to sleep a minimum of 8 hours. I'll know if you don't and snitch so go to sleep 😴" The translation is attached and already in the format his teacher requested.

Steph: How is he gonna know?

Duke: Idk but he is a life saver!

Tim: Duke, did you just sell your soul for a homework assignment?

Duke: Let me sleep and then we'll see what happens 🥱

Tim is driven crazy because he needs to know who is behind the website. And also because Constantine was kinda in the area and said no. Duke has his soul even if he doesn't sleep, lucky bugger.