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He'd been attending an Inventor's conference, when things had well and truly gone to shit.

An AI that Lex Luthor was making had taken control of the weird elephant robot Jack and Maddie had made, which had then forcibly amalgamated the weapons Vlad had made and the shields Wayne Enterprises had brought along and...well.

It was kicking Superman's ass.

Because, apparently, Ecto behaved as a subdued version of Kryptonite.

Which was very bad, because the guns it was using fired Ecto-shots instead of Plasma.

Which is...possibly world/Realm ending levels of "not ideal", because in all his travels of the Realms, he's never heard of one that survived for very long without Superman.

And he's rather attached to this Realm, because he happens to live in it.

Shit.

Shit shit shit.

He can't transform into Plasmius, there's no time.

Instead, he steps out from cover and grabs one of the anti-tank guns from a nearby table...and, as gently as he can, slides it behind him to Jack and Maddie. They'll know what to do.

If anyone can modify a weapon to the extent that it could be considered a violation of multiple treaties in less that ten minutes, it's those two.

He hates this. He hates that he has to do this.

He isn't a hero. He doesn't want to die like one.

And those weapons will kill him, if they land a hit. He knows. He made them, after all.

What follows is him drawing the modified Killer-Robot's attention and dodging shots, pulling it away from Superman until either someone qualified to deal with a technological threat like this appears, or until Jack and Maddie finish tampering with the gun.

But Superman isn't getting up.

Whatever Jack and Maddie are about to do to that robot, and he knows they've altered the gun because he can hear them getting into place, is probably going to make it explode.

With Ecto contaminated shards.

Right. Over. Superman.

Vlad doesn't curse. He doesn't have time to. He has no idea where the other, useless heroes are and he doesn't care.

He darts forward, between the legs of the monstrosity that Jack and Maddie built, gets grazed by an attempted shot, dodges another, and almost gets stepped on when Jack finally fires the anti-tank gun into it's side.

He grabs Superman, hoists the big lug over his shoulders, and books for the door.

He only barely makes it in time.

The robot explodes behind him, with the gunshots continuing throughout as Jack makes sure there's nothing left.

He has no doubt Maddie is handling the AI portion of it.

He unceremoniously drops Superman to the ground and turns to help them.

They wrap it up in time for other heroes to finally step in, the useless troglodytes.

But by the time he gets home three days later, it's the worst case scenario for him.

The Justice League has turned their attention to him, so that they can thank him for saving one of their own.

It starts out with mentioning him in press conferences. Then it branches out into Superman going out of his way to thank him. Then Superman and other heroes are inviting him to...to cookouts?

All of them know his name. All of them want to talk to him.

This is bad, because Vlad's a criminal. He knows it, Maddie knows it (but not the extent of it), Daniel knows it.

He has...no idea how long he can hide from them that he's technically what they would consider a villain.

Here, buddy, have a hotdog! Let watch that team you like! Is pack bonding GREAT? Wet cat to reformed villian pipeline in a gooooo~☆

*reads the nephew in*

*Danny get UNHOLY spark of "I'ma Fuck With Some Folks" in his eyes*

WOW Vlad! I am reluctantly impressed! Look at ME! Coming around so reluctantly! But being in AWE of your COOL HEROIC ACTION AND FRIEND! There is a clear way to my affection if you continue down this path! I am positively reinforcing you! That shoulder toss was So Cool! Could you... TEACH ME™?

Now Vlad as a whole host of heroes playing wingman and tryna set him up on dates so he can get over his creepy obsession with his doomed college crush.

Vlad is suffering. Danny stops by uninvited to ‘help’. He teases him relentlessly (you’re gonna be pop-u-lar! Think of it as personality dialysis!) but does have some good points. “You gotta ditch the cravat man, it’s giving pretentious cosplayer in a bib. Go for a nice fancy scarf. Understated and classy like Bruce Wayne!”

Vlad to the heroes: No. Stop. I’m evil. Leave me alone.

Danny with a shit eating grin and glee in his eyes: Wow, Vlad, it’s so cool that you helped Superman. I’m so impressed that the JL is talking to you.

Vlad to the heroes with Danny behind him: yes, hi, I’m happy to join the cookout.

Okay but my questions are then how did Vlad get on the JL radar? How does the JL know to include Danny to boost Vlad’s interest in working with them?

Is it because he was doing Vlad Things or is it because he’s Danny nemesis? Maybe Danny is on one of the young hero teams like the TT or the YJ?

Danny being a team member: cool! I’m so happy to finally have a mentor and get training!

JL: yeah, don’t hero on your own, that’s dangerous. You need a support system

Danny: well… there’s Vlad? But he wants to hurt me as much as help me.

He'd been attending an Inventor's conference, when things had well and truly gone to shit.

An AI that Lex Luthor was making had taken control of the weird elephant robot Jack and Maddie had made, which had then forcibly amalgamated the weapons Vlad had made and the shields Wayne Enterprises had brought along and...well.

It was kicking Superman's ass.

Because, apparently, Ecto behaved as a subdued version of Kryptonite.

Which was very bad, because the guns it was using fired Ecto-shots instead of Plasma.

Which is...possibly world/Realm ending levels of "not ideal", because in all his travels of the Realms, he's never heard of one that survived for very long without Superman.

And he's rather attached to this Realm, because he happens to live in it.

Shit.

Shit shit shit.

He can't transform into Plasmius, there's no time.

Instead, he steps out from cover and grabs one of the anti-tank guns from a nearby table...and, as gently as he can, slides it behind him to Jack and Maddie. They'll know what to do.

If anyone can modify a weapon to the extent that it could be considered a violation of multiple treaties in less that ten minutes, it's those two.

He hates this. He hates that he has to do this.

He isn't a hero. He doesn't want to die like one.

And those weapons will kill him, if they land a hit. He knows. He made them, after all.

What follows is him drawing the modified Killer-Robot's attention and dodging shots, pulling it away from Superman until either someone qualified to deal with a technological threat like this appears, or until Jack and Maddie finish tampering with the gun.

But Superman isn't getting up.

Whatever Jack and Maddie are about to do to that robot, and he knows they've altered the gun because he can hear them getting into place, is probably going to make it explode.

With Ecto contaminated shards.

Right. Over. Superman.

Vlad doesn't curse. He doesn't have time to. He has no idea where the other, useless heroes are and he doesn't care.

He darts forward, between the legs of the monstrosity that Jack and Maddie built, gets grazed by an attempted shot, dodges another, and almost gets stepped on when Jack finally fires the anti-tank gun into it's side.

He grabs Superman, hoists the big lug over his shoulders, and books for the door.

He only barely makes it in time.

The robot explodes behind him, with the gunshots continuing throughout as Jack makes sure there's nothing left.

He has no doubt Maddie is handling the AI portion of it.

He unceremoniously drops Superman to the ground and turns to help them.

They wrap it up in time for other heroes to finally step in, the useless troglodytes.

But by the time he gets home three days later, it's the worst case scenario for him.

The Justice League has turned their attention to him, so that they can thank him for saving one of their own.

It starts out with mentioning him in press conferences. Then it branches out into Superman going out of his way to thank him. Then Superman and other heroes are inviting him to...to cookouts?

All of them know his name. All of them want to talk to him.

This is bad, because Vlad's a criminal. He knows it, Maddie knows it (but not the extent of it), Daniel knows it.

He has...no idea how long he can hide from them that he's technically what they would consider a villain.

Here, buddy, have a hotdog! Let watch that team you like! Is pack bonding GREAT? Wet cat to reformed villian pipeline in a gooooo~☆

*reads the nephew in*

*Danny get UNHOLY spark of "I'ma Fuck With Some Folks" in his eyes*

WOW Vlad! I am reluctantly impressed! Look at ME! Coming around so reluctantly! But being in AWE of your COOL HEROIC ACTION AND FRIEND! There is a clear way to my affection if you continue down this path! I am positively reinforcing you! That shoulder toss was So Cool! Could you... TEACH ME™?

Now Vlad as a whole host of heroes playing wingman and tryna set him up on dates so he can get over his creepy obsession with his doomed college crush.

Vlad is suffering. Danny stops by uninvited to ‘help’. He teases him relentlessly (you’re gonna be pop-u-lar! Think of it as personality dialysis!) but does have some good points. “You gotta ditch the cravat man, it’s giving pretentious cosplayer in a bib. Go for a nice fancy scarf. Understated and classy like Bruce Wayne!”

He'd been attending an Inventor's conference, when things had well and truly gone to shit.

An AI that Lex Luthor was making had taken control of the weird elephant robot Jack and Maddie had made, which had then forcibly amalgamated the weapons Vlad had made and the shields Wayne Enterprises had brought along and...well.

It was kicking Superman's ass.

Because, apparently, Ecto behaved as a subdued version of Kryptonite.

Which was very bad, because the guns it was using fired Ecto-shots instead of Plasma.

Which is...possibly world/Realm ending levels of "not ideal", because in all his travels of the Realms, he's never heard of one that survived for very long without Superman.

And he's rather attached to this Realm, because he happens to live in it.

Shit.

Shit shit shit.

He can't transform into Plasmius, there's no time.

Instead, he steps out from cover and grabs one of the anti-tank guns from a nearby table...and, as gently as he can, slides it behind him to Jack and Maddie. They'll know what to do.

If anyone can modify a weapon to the extent that it could be considered a violation of multiple treaties in less that ten minutes, it's those two.

He hates this. He hates that he has to do this.

He isn't a hero. He doesn't want to die like one.

And those weapons will kill him, if they land a hit. He knows. He made them, after all.

What follows is him drawing the modified Killer-Robot's attention and dodging shots, pulling it away from Superman until either someone qualified to deal with a technological threat like this appears, or until Jack and Maddie finish tampering with the gun.

But Superman isn't getting up.

Whatever Jack and Maddie are about to do to that robot, and he knows they've altered the gun because he can hear them getting into place, is probably going to make it explode.

With Ecto contaminated shards.

Right. Over. Superman.

Vlad doesn't curse. He doesn't have time to. He has no idea where the other, useless heroes are and he doesn't care.

He darts forward, between the legs of the monstrosity that Jack and Maddie built, gets grazed by an attempted shot, dodges another, and almost gets stepped on when Jack finally fires the anti-tank gun into it's side.

He grabs Superman, hoists the big lug over his shoulders, and books for the door.

He only barely makes it in time.

The robot explodes behind him, with the gunshots continuing throughout as Jack makes sure there's nothing left.

He has no doubt Maddie is handling the AI portion of it.

He unceremoniously drops Superman to the ground and turns to help them.

They wrap it up in time for other heroes to finally step in, the useless troglodytes.

But by the time he gets home three days later, it's the worst case scenario for him.

The Justice League has turned their attention to him, so that they can thank him for saving one of their own.

It starts out with mentioning him in press conferences. Then it branches out into Superman going out of his way to thank him. Then Superman and other heroes are inviting him to...to cookouts?

All of them know his name. All of them want to talk to him.

This is bad, because Vlad's a criminal. He knows it, Maddie knows it (but not the extent of it), Daniel knows it.

He has...no idea how long he can hide from them that he's technically what they would consider a villain.

He'd been attending an Inventor's conference, when things had well and truly gone to shit.

An AI that Lex Luthor was making had taken control of the weird elephant robot Jack and Maddie had made, which had then forcibly amalgamated the weapons Vlad had made and the shields Wayne Enterprises had brought along and...well.

It was kicking Superman's ass.

Because, apparently, Ecto behaved as a subdued version of Kryptonite.

Which was very bad, because the guns it was using fired Ecto-shots instead of Plasma.

Which is...possibly world/Realm ending levels of "not ideal", because in all his travels of the Realms, he's never heard of one that survived for very long without Superman.

And he's rather attached to this Realm, because he happens to live in it.

Shit.

Shit shit shit.

He can't transform into Plasmius, there's no time.

Instead, he steps out from cover and grabs one of the anti-tank guns from a nearby table...and, as gently as he can, slides it behind him to Jack and Maddie. They'll know what to do.

If anyone can modify a weapon to the extent that it could be considered a violation of multiple treaties in less that ten minutes, it's those two.

He hates this. He hates that he has to do this.

He isn't a hero. He doesn't want to die like one.

And those weapons will kill him, if they land a hit. He knows. He made them, after all.

What follows is him drawing the modified Killer-Robot's attention and dodging shots, pulling it away from Superman until either someone qualified to deal with a technological threat like this appears, or until Jack and Maddie finish tampering with the gun.

But Superman isn't getting up.

Whatever Jack and Maddie are about to do to that robot, and he knows they've altered the gun because he can hear them getting into place, is probably going to make it explode.

With Ecto contaminated shards.

Right. Over. Superman.

Vlad doesn't curse. He doesn't have time to. He has no idea where the other, useless heroes are and he doesn't care.

He darts forward, between the legs of the monstrosity that Jack and Maddie built, gets grazed by an attempted shot, dodges another, and almost gets stepped on when Jack finally fires the anti-tank gun into it's side.

He grabs Superman, hoists the big lug over his shoulders, and books for the door.

He only barely makes it in time.

The robot explodes behind him, with the gunshots continuing throughout as Jack makes sure there's nothing left.

He has no doubt Maddie is handling the AI portion of it.

He unceremoniously drops Superman to the ground and turns to help them.

They wrap it up in time for other heroes to finally step in, the useless troglodytes.

But by the time he gets home three days later, it's the worst case scenario for him.

The Justice League has turned their attention to him, so that they can thank him for saving one of their own.

It starts out with mentioning him in press conferences. Then it branches out into Superman going out of his way to thank him. Then Superman and other heroes are inviting him to...to cookouts?

All of them know his name. All of them want to talk to him.

This is bad, because Vlad's a criminal. He knows it, Maddie knows it (but not the extent of it), Daniel knows it.

He has...no idea how long he can hide from them that he's technically what they would consider a villain.

He'd been attending an Inventor's conference, when things had well and truly gone to shit.

An AI that Lex Luthor was making had taken control of the weird elephant robot Jack and Maddie had made, which had then forcibly amalgamated the weapons Vlad had made and the shields Wayne Enterprises had brought along and...well.

It was kicking Superman's ass.

Because, apparently, Ecto behaved as a subdued version of Kryptonite.

Which was very bad, because the guns it was using fired Ecto-shots instead of Plasma.

Which is...possibly world/Realm ending levels of "not ideal", because in all his travels of the Realms, he's never heard of one that survived for very long without Superman.

And he's rather attached to this Realm, because he happens to live in it.

Shit.

Shit shit shit.

He can't transform into Plasmius, there's no time.

Instead, he steps out from cover and grabs one of the anti-tank guns from a nearby table...and, as gently as he can, slides it behind him to Jack and Maddie. They'll know what to do.

If anyone can modify a weapon to the extent that it could be considered a violation of multiple treaties in less that ten minutes, it's those two.

He hates this. He hates that he has to do this.

He isn't a hero. He doesn't want to die like one.

And those weapons will kill him, if they land a hit. He knows. He made them, after all.

What follows is him drawing the modified Killer-Robot's attention and dodging shots, pulling it away from Superman until either someone qualified to deal with a technological threat like this appears, or until Jack and Maddie finish tampering with the gun.

But Superman isn't getting up.

Whatever Jack and Maddie are about to do to that robot, and he knows they've altered the gun because he can hear them getting into place, is probably going to make it explode.

With Ecto contaminated shards.

Right. Over. Superman.

Vlad doesn't curse. He doesn't have time to. He has no idea where the other, useless heroes are and he doesn't care.

He darts forward, between the legs of the monstrosity that Jack and Maddie built, gets grazed by an attempted shot, dodges another, and almost gets stepped on when Jack finally fires the anti-tank gun into it's side.

He grabs Superman, hoists the big lug over his shoulders, and books for the door.

He only barely makes it in time.

The robot explodes behind him, with the gunshots continuing throughout as Jack makes sure there's nothing left.

He has no doubt Maddie is handling the AI portion of it.

He unceremoniously drops Superman to the ground and turns to help them.

They wrap it up in time for other heroes to finally step in, the useless troglodytes.

But by the time he gets home three days later, it's the worst case scenario for him.

The Justice League has turned their attention to him, so that they can thank him for saving one of their own.

It starts out with mentioning him in press conferences. Then it branches out into Superman going out of his way to thank him. Then Superman and other heroes are inviting him to...to cookouts?

All of them know his name. All of them want to talk to him.

This is bad, because Vlad's a criminal. He knows it, Maddie knows it (but not the extent of it), Daniel knows it.

He has...no idea how long he can hide from them that he's technically what they would consider a villain.

He'd been attending an Inventor's conference, when things had well and truly gone to shit.

An AI that Lex Luthor was making had taken control of the weird elephant robot Jack and Maddie had made, which had then forcibly amalgamated the weapons Vlad had made and the shields Wayne Enterprises had brought along and...well.

It was kicking Superman's ass.

Because, apparently, Ecto behaved as a subdued version of Kryptonite.

Which was very bad, because the guns it was using fired Ecto-shots instead of Plasma.

Which is...possibly world/Realm ending levels of "not ideal", because in all his travels of the Realms, he's never heard of one that survived for very long without Superman.

And he's rather attached to this Realm, because he happens to live in it.

Shit.

Shit shit shit.

He can't transform into Plasmius, there's no time.

Instead, he steps out from cover and grabs one of the anti-tank guns from a nearby table...and, as gently as he can, slides it behind him to Jack and Maddie. They'll know what to do.

If anyone can modify a weapon to the extent that it could be considered a violation of multiple treaties in less that ten minutes, it's those two.

He hates this. He hates that he has to do this.

He isn't a hero. He doesn't want to die like one.

And those weapons will kill him, if they land a hit. He knows. He made them, after all.

What follows is him drawing the modified Killer-Robot's attention and dodging shots, pulling it away from Superman until either someone qualified to deal with a technological threat like this appears, or until Jack and Maddie finish tampering with the gun.

But Superman isn't getting up.

Whatever Jack and Maddie are about to do to that robot, and he knows they've altered the gun because he can hear them getting into place, is probably going to make it explode.

With Ecto contaminated shards.

Right. Over. Superman.

Vlad doesn't curse. He doesn't have time to. He has no idea where the other, useless heroes are and he doesn't care.

He darts forward, between the legs of the monstrosity that Jack and Maddie built, gets grazed by an attempted shot, dodges another, and almost gets stepped on when Jack finally fires the anti-tank gun into it's side.

He grabs Superman, hoists the big lug over his shoulders, and books for the door.

He only barely makes it in time.

The robot explodes behind him, with the gunshots continuing throughout as Jack makes sure there's nothing left.

He has no doubt Maddie is handling the AI portion of it.

He unceremoniously drops Superman to the ground and turns to help them.

They wrap it up in time for other heroes to finally step in, the useless troglodytes.

But by the time he gets home three days later, it's the worst case scenario for him.

The Justice League has turned their attention to him, so that they can thank him for saving one of their own.

It starts out with mentioning him in press conferences. Then it branches out into Superman going out of his way to thank him. Then Superman and other heroes are inviting him to...to cookouts?

All of them know his name. All of them want to talk to him.

This is bad, because Vlad's a criminal. He knows it, Maddie knows it (but not the extent of it), Daniel knows it.

He has...no idea how long he can hide from them that he's technically what they would consider a villain.

That is, until he vents about it to Daniel during on of their "Meetings" (Read: Fights where they can't use their powers in front of others so they have to talk around eachother as humans).

And Daniel has a rather strange suggestion.

"Why not just become a Hero then?" He says.

"I have just told you Badger, I spent my entire life being a Villain just to kill your Father, and win over your Mother." He replied annoyed, had the boy even been listening to him? "Those Heroes wouldn't let me kill your Father if I joined them, they have a general No-Kill Rule unless necessary."

Daniel stopped to ponder this, "Well, you said you wanted revenge on my dad right. Not specifically murder." He paused for a moment, as if it physically hurt him to speak his next words, "If you became a Hero...you could...*gag* win over my mother by proving you are a good person...ancients I'm going to be sick...and arrest my dad for being a mad scientist or something..."

Vlad pondered this, "Hmmm, will it's a somewhat viable strategy, but why would you throw your own father under the bus?" He asked.

"Dad's been getting a little unhinged lately, ever since he saw how Ectoplasm affected Superman. He's convinced himself that Superman is an Ecto-Entity in disguise, and he wants to capture him to se how he mimics humans so well." Daniel explained, "Mom has been trying to be the rational one, but at this point my dad needs some outside help to get back to his senses."

"And you hope that being arrested will be enough of a shock to snap him out of it?" Vlad asked, "You know how your father is. He would sooner assume Superman mind controlled the arresting officers than rethink his theories. He would need cold hard evidence to accept the facts."

"And I'll get it, I just need him somewhere he can't hurt himself for others for a while. If you accept their offers, become a Hero, and arrest my dad for a bit, I'll be able to find enough evidence to snap him out of it. Getting him out would be my job, and if I fail you've won. What do you say?" Daniel proposed.

"Hmmm. Well, I can't see many ways I could come out of this worse off than I already am. You have a deal, Badger." Vlad accepted.

...

A few miles away, Lex Luthor is still looking into the energy source that managed to harm Superman.

The Energy came from the weapons brought by the Doctors Fentons and Vlad Masters, which means they are his best bet to finding more of it. Masters was being too closely watched by the Justice League, so he would need to contact the Fentons.

A quick search of the guest list, and he had their Numbers.

He'd been attending an Inventor's conference, when things had well and truly gone to shit.

An AI that Lex Luthor was making had taken control of the weird elephant robot Jack and Maddie had made, which had then forcibly amalgamated the weapons Vlad had made and the shields Wayne Enterprises had brought along and...well.

It was kicking Superman's ass.

Because, apparently, Ecto behaved as a subdued version of Kryptonite.

Which was very bad, because the guns it was using fired Ecto-shots instead of Plasma.

Which is...possibly world/Realm ending levels of "not ideal", because in all his travels of the Realms, he's never heard of one that survived for very long without Superman.

And he's rather attached to this Realm, because he happens to live in it.

Shit.

Shit shit shit.

He can't transform into Plasmius, there's no time.

Instead, he steps out from cover and grabs one of the anti-tank guns from a nearby table...and, as gently as he can, slides it behind him to Jack and Maddie. They'll know what to do.

If anyone can modify a weapon to the extent that it could be considered a violation of multiple treaties in less that ten minutes, it's those two.

He hates this. He hates that he has to do this.

He isn't a hero. He doesn't want to die like one.

And those weapons will kill him, if they land a hit. He knows. He made them, after all.

What follows is him drawing the modified Killer-Robot's attention and dodging shots, pulling it away from Superman until either someone qualified to deal with a technological threat like this appears, or until Jack and Maddie finish tampering with the gun.

But Superman isn't getting up.

Whatever Jack and Maddie are about to do to that robot, and he knows they've altered the gun because he can hear them getting into place, is probably going to make it explode.

With Ecto contaminated shards.

Right. Over. Superman.

Vlad doesn't curse. He doesn't have time to. He has no idea where the other, useless heroes are and he doesn't care.

He darts forward, between the legs of the monstrosity that Jack and Maddie built, gets grazed by an attempted shot, dodges another, and almost gets stepped on when Jack finally fires the anti-tank gun into it's side.

He grabs Superman, hoists the big lug over his shoulders, and books for the door.

He only barely makes it in time.

The robot explodes behind him, with the gunshots continuing throughout as Jack makes sure there's nothing left.

He has no doubt Maddie is handling the AI portion of it.

He unceremoniously drops Superman to the ground and turns to help them.

They wrap it up in time for other heroes to finally step in, the useless troglodytes.

But by the time he gets home three days later, it's the worst case scenario for him.

The Justice League has turned their attention to him, so that they can thank him for saving one of their own.

It starts out with mentioning him in press conferences. Then it branches out into Superman going out of his way to thank him. Then Superman and other heroes are inviting him to...to cookouts?

All of them know his name. All of them want to talk to him.

This is bad, because Vlad's a criminal. He knows it, Maddie knows it (but not the extent of it), Daniel knows it.

He has...no idea how long he can hide from them that he's technically what they would consider a villain.

Here, buddy, have a hotdog! Let watch that team you like! Is pack bonding GREAT? Wet cat to reformed villian pipeline in a gooooo~☆

*reads the nephew in*

*Danny get UNHOLY spark of "I'ma Fuck With Some Folks" in his eyes*

WOW Vlad! I am reluctantly impressed! Look at ME! Coming around so reluctantly! But being in AWE of your COOL HEROIC ACTION AND FRIEND! There is a clear way to my affection if you continue down this path! I am positively reinforcing you! That shoulder toss was So Cool! Could you... TEACH ME™?

Of course I can, Colt. I'd be happy to!

[She leads him over to Melody and Damien.]

So this is my Mama, Melody. And this is my Papa, Damien!

[She guestures to each of them when she says their name.]

[She gestures to Colt, gently pushing him towards Melody.]

"Uh, yeah. Nice to meet you," he whispers, trying not to disturb the other sleeping figure. "I sort of just... wounded up here a little while ago. I only know Simon (@simondrowinginblood), so I thought I should meet some of the other people here."

[She leads him to the other Simons, and Alec.]

@s1m0n-inthedark

@simon-sm13-sos

@madeofmanyfandoms

@colt-seavers-official

"It's nice to meet you, too," he returns with a polite smile. "So... What do you do around here, exactly?"

Alec, you do realize that she’s your grandmother? And you can call her Grandma? Jeez- how many times have we had this conversation?

Ooc: In case you need a refresher on Alec, and btw he’s supposed to sound Australian. Also adding full body if Rose. You notice anything about them?🤔

@colt-seavers-official

@colt-seavers-official

"Right, yeah, okay. That... mostly makes sense."

[Rose decides to take a much more direct approach.]

She'd thought it was a really, really fancy mansion. But! It was actually a school!

And the students could to weird shit just like her!

So she just. Blended in.

Found a room that wasn't being used, acted like she was always supposed to be there.

Super easy! She even made a few friends!

The teachers are so fooled they're even scolding her when she's "late to class". Hah! Mission accomplished!

She has a roof over her head and things to do when she's bored, as well as friends and food! Also, learning? Not as boring as Danny said it was.

Literally all the x-men: that's very nice, sweety. Now, what extra-curricular would you like to sign up for?

Dani:... can I try out fencing?

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Dani: this is perfect! Now the secret government agency that is chasing me and the psychopath who created me as a weapon can't get me!!

Charles: Hmm...

Logan: what is it?

Fenton Security sells an unobtrusive, small box that is placed next to the front door.

They say that all the customer has to do is place their thumb on the box, let it read their thumbprint, and it's the same as arming or disarming any other security system with a number pad. There's no cameras, for people that value their privacy. The system just logs how many entered the home through hyper sensitive motions sensors that have been specifically designed to not go off on animals.

The reviews are super positive; people get phonecalls the absolute second someone breaks into their house, police are notified in a quick and efficient manner that even describes the number of criminals present.

But.

Oliver grabbed himself one of those devices. He pried it open.

The box is empty.

There's nothing inside of it, not even a spell. The factories are eerily empty; not even a single trace of rats. There's a few that are clearly just for show, but when there's not a tour doing it's rounds, the "workers" step back and relax either on their phones or reading.

So how the fuck is Fenton Security doing this?

Green Arrow: I LOOKED—

Danny: And I'm sure you stuck your finger in and rooted around too. What are you, FOUR? Do you REALLY think that just because you can't see it with the naked eye, it's empty?? Do you not believe in germs either? Do you not believe in carbon dioxide, or methane gas putting holes in the ozone layer? Do you struggle with the idea of putting sunscreen on, since you don't believe in ultraviolet light?

Green arrow:

Danny: *snaps the box shut*

...Maybe Danny happened to be out the day Green Arrow came calling, but Box Ghost was there for an annual inspection and then got super incensed about the false accusations/insinuations that there is something wrong or illicit with the boxes and then basically declared Green Arrow as his arch nemesis.

And, of course, that would also extend to Arrow's civilian identity--because why would a ghost care about that separation? They certainly didn't when it came to Danny. They new his full name, school, and home address, regularly called him a halfa/half ghost, and messed with him in various ways while in human form. The majority of them might not have even been aware that Danny was even trying to hide his identity at all.

Ollie hates it. This FUCKER is some how, SOME WAY, taking advantage of the working man. He can FEEL it in his "hey... you should start a union" bones. But SOMEHOW? Ohoooh ho ho! SOMEHOW? He's found the MOST "workin man" lookin mother fucker OUT THERE?

And gotten him to BEEF with Ollie over boxes?!

YOU BASTARD.

The boxes only work in Star City, so the league decides to drop by and investigate on their own time.

Flash tests it, to see just how fast he can enter a building with the box still tracking him. The answer is surprising: it’s up until he starts breaking through the time barrier. Not only that, but Flash gets weird vibes when he approaches the time barrier while in Star City. As though something is watching him. Flash doesn’t always exercise caution, but he does this time. He makes a note of it and leaves the investigation to Batman.

Wonder Woman just meets with Danny over it. Danny agrees to attest it’s safe under the Lasso of Truth, so long as that’s the only question she asks. Once it’s confirmed, Wonder Woman decides it’s none of her business, and tries to convince the league to drop the case- or in Batman’s case, to move the case down on the priority list. An Arkham breakout causes this to happen.

Aquaman is the next to drop in, though he’s just in the area for something unrelated. He agrees with Wonder Woman, and lets Green Arrow know that sometimes it’s best to not pry. These things are delicate. The Fentons deserve privacy, and rooting for answers could do more harm than good.

Green Arrow is still suspicious. He can’t stop worrying this is some kind of scheme. Maybe the Fentons are working for someone else, someone who’s manipulating them.

Captain Marvel shows up as Billy Batson, after telling Arrow he’d come in disguise and not to look for him. Billy is able to see the number of Blob ghosts in the city, a number that indicates a doorway to the realms is open.

Billy suspects it’s a small door, only big enough to fit the little blob ghosts. After all, apparently this problem has been going on for a while, and the apocalypse hasn’t happened, so things are fine. Closing a naturally formed doorway would be a very difficult task, and could trap the blobs on this side, where they’d be unable to complete ecto-filtration cycles. That could form into an actual problem.

Still, there’s the matter of the boxes. Someone trained the ghosts to input information to a computer.

He goes to the Fenton Works building, and meets a god.

He calls himself the Box Ghost. Billy asks him questions, careful to be polite the entire time. The Box Ghost has no harmful intentions towards any human but Oliver Quinn, aka Green Arrow. Apparently Arrow insulted His boxes. Box Ghost is under orders from the Ghost King not to seriously harm Oliver in retaliation, but he’s allowed to inconvenience Oliver, and perform some harmless pranks.

Billy agrees it’s more than fair, and joins Wonder Woman on her crusade of trying to get Oliver to drop the investigation. Fighting against a god would probably result in lots of death. If Oliver stops prodding, nothing will happen.

He also warns Oliver against harming any pranksters or attempting to retaliate against people annoying him. Again, fighting a realms ghost is probably bad.

The Box Ghost’s appearance alters Billy’s idea of what’s going on. There’s a larger doorway, but it’s likely being guarded. That, or someone specifically summoned Box Ghost.

Billy writes up his report for the league, filled with warnings, and dozens of statements to drop the investigation.

For about a month nothing happens. Then, Batman’s schedule clears up. Oliver proceeds to make a bad choice.

The first thing he does is gather the reports from the rest of the Justice League. If this problem is big enough for Arrow to call heavy hitter League members to look at it, and somehow small enough for Batman to leave it for after the Arkham breakout, than there is time enough for Batman to gather outside information before listening to Arrow.

What he finds is... strange.

He reads Wonder Woman's report first. Not out of any disrespect for Captain Marvel, of course, but that man was not consistent with modern spelling.

She reports that she spoke to the owner about his home security product, asked if it was safe under the lasso of truth, and left after positive confirmation. It was less than a standard sized page long.

Safety... Batman mulls this over. The lasso compels the truth. Lying by ommission was difficult. A random civillian would likely not have the capability.

So the product does not cause harm under the view of Fenton Securities, and has been empirically proven to be effective by the entire city and Flash himself.

Batman considers. Fenton, talk to Arrow, or Marvel's report?

He decides to look into Fenton Securities.

The CEO was one Daniel James Fenton, born and raised in Amity Park, Illinois, USA. Older sister, who was in Gotham, intending to be a psychiatrist in Arkham (Batman flags this for later on principle). No social media for them, or the parents. The parents were inventors, for... His brows rose. That was a government code used in projects by Amanda Waller. He flags that too.

Danny's friend Samantha Manson had an instagram, where she made many posts about environmentalism. Danny's name occasionally appeared in sentences, untagged. He appeared in photo backgrounds. Black hair, blue eyes, no suspicious scarring or photoshop detected in metadata.

He did not go to college. He started the business three years after high school, with no investors.

Bruce pauses.

Fenton Securities is a sole proprietorship.

Okay. That is weird.

A city wide company has one person at the head of it, fronting the start up capital from... somewhere, he'd set Red Robin on that (he was better at financial records than Oracle). There was seemingly no one else sharing in the management or profits.

They use a local third party delivery service, which was slightly non-standard but not suspicious. It became suspicious when Batman saw that labor margins for Fenton Securities itself were 0%.

There are either no employees, or they aren't getting paid.

The goods are manufactured, inspected, and shipped from a single warehouse.

Batman would have to double check that the man Wonder Woman met was actually this Danny character. This stretched the bounds of belief for what a single human could do alone, legally, and 'safely'.

For the moment, Batman set this aside and turns to Captain's report. If a deep dive in Fenton was not proven necessary, it could wait.

This report is three pages long. This is nothing to comment on. Captain either rambles or writes two sentences and considers something complete.

The first was a typically rambling assessment of, Batman blinks in surprise, Arrow. Captain noted that he seemed "obsessive" over the issue when talking to him before and after the investigation. Insisting that there had to be something Diana missed. Diana.

Marvel went on to explain that he went in disguise to the warehouse, which was clean and had no people in it. Rather, there was, supposedly, a god, who was handling quality control. And manufacturing. Through magic, and a 'nat portal probably dont worry tho seems under control by the god'.

The report does not elaborate.

The last page has a single paragraph concurring with Wonder Woman, and recommending, 'constantean if it becomes a problem otherwise let sleeping dogs lye :) .'

Batman breathes deeply.

He does not want to work with 'constantean'.

He does not want to get involved with magic bullshit, that is set to helping people for once. By getting into the house of every person in the city.

Fuck.

Batman considers.

Talk to Green Arrow in person, or try and meet this Fenton character, who might be a front for a god?

Now Danny had thought that after Wonder Woman, Green Arrow would drop this. But he didn't. And Danny is getting irritated. And coming home to find Batman in his apartment? Well, who can blame Danny for letting his frustrations show? He's only half human.

Batman’s eye narrowed. How does he know Captain Marvel was there?

"I am not here to determine if it is a scam." Batman say.

He refuses to acknowledge the thrown box that sails over his head to hit the wall. Danny pauses in his angry huff to collapse into his sofa, lay down, and scream into the cushions. That done he turns still laying down to look at Batman with a grimace of skepticism.

Batman lets him do this, taking note of the supernatural glow to the eyes and large fangs that disappear after he calms down. How he knew that Marvel had been by is a bit suspicious, but seeing as a god had been mention in the report likely from that. From the report it is likely that Marvel just walked up to the god to ask them directly. Good temper control for what is looking to be a more supernatural inclined individual. That box was never going to come close to hitting him and the display of frustration and deescalation was fairly mild though showy.

"Green Arrow won't leave this alone and has not taken any of the other league members assessments that it is not harmful." Batman continues.

"Of course he won't." Danny sighs.

"It is just the presence of a god that needs clarification. I believe Marvel had them noted as one associated with containers." Batman says before getting interrupted.

"Boxy? He is not a god, just a Realms Ghost. He likes to say he is the master of all things rectangular and square, but not really." Danny says in confusion.

"Noted. He is contracted with you for creating the home security devices." Batman prompts.

"Yeah. When I decided to move he was the one Ghost that was having problems finding a way to satisfy his obsession. I thought that since it is kinda my job to help with that to see if he wanted to help out with making the boxes. It would give him something to do that would not get into trouble back home." Danny says.

Danny is much more relaxed now. It helps that Batman said he does not think it is a scam or asked how it works. A god being reported as doing something in a city is kinda a thing you would want to know about. So yeah he sees why he is here. Also that frustration in Green Arrow not leaving this alone is nice to see.

"I think Boxy also is kinda liking having a Nemesis with Green Arrow. He used to be his chapter of the union's representative when he was alive." Danny admits.

Batman pointy does not say anything about that, but makes a note to check union membership going back the last 50 years. Why does it have to be ghosts. He can't see ghosts and it would explain how the warehouse looks empty. Maybe he can send Deadman to talk to this 'Boxy' and avoid Constantin entirely.

because I feel like they hold.

Oliver isn't just harassing a guy genuinely trying to help people. He's wasting time and resources - his own, his friends', the Justice League's - and fixating so hard on this that (given the tropes of the genre) there is almost certainly something else, an actual problem, going unnoticed in the background. Something that could have been handled already, but will instead spiral out of control because Oliver is looking for fault in all the wrong places.

1.) The actual cops are called by the Fenton Box once the fakes are on the scene. After the cops miss them a few times, Ollie tries to use this as proof of the company being up to no good. Boxy is this 🤏🏽 close to putting Ollie in a box, so Danny has to step in. It becomes a whole Thing™️.

2.) Turns out the thieves actually got the idea from Green Arrow. His obsessive investigations around the city made them realize there was a perfect scape goat. All they had to do was bum rushed anywhere with a Fenton Box while dressed up. Civilians got “evacuated so [they could] sweep for armed assailants,” and the thieves fucked off after a smash-n-grab.

Fenton Security sells an unobtrusive, small box that is placed next to the front door.

They say that all the customer has to do is place their thumb on the box, let it read their thumbprint, and it's the same as arming or disarming any other security system with a number pad. There's no cameras, for people that value their privacy. The system just logs how many entered the home through hyper sensitive motions sensors that have been specifically designed to not go off on animals.

The reviews are super positive; people get phonecalls the absolute second someone breaks into their house, police are notified in a quick and efficient manner that even describes the number of criminals present.

But.

Oliver grabbed himself one of those devices. He pried it open.

The box is empty.

There's nothing inside of it, not even a spell. The factories are eerily empty; not even a single trace of rats. There's a few that are clearly just for show, but when there's not a tour doing it's rounds, the "workers" step back and relax either on their phones or reading.

So how the fuck is Fenton Security doing this?

Green Arrow: I LOOKED—

Danny: And I'm sure you stuck your finger in and rooted around too. What are you, FOUR? Do you REALLY think that just because you can't see it with the naked eye, it's empty?? Do you not believe in germs either? Do you not believe in carbon dioxide, or methane gas putting holes in the ozone layer? Do you struggle with the idea of putting sunscreen on, since you don't believe in ultraviolet light?

Green arrow:

Danny: *snaps the box shut*

...Maybe Danny happened to be out the day Green Arrow came calling, but Box Ghost was there for an annual inspection and then got super incensed about the false accusations/insinuations that there is something wrong or illicit with the boxes and then basically declared Green Arrow as his arch nemesis.

And, of course, that would also extend to Arrow's civilian identity--because why would a ghost care about that separation? They certainly didn't when it came to Danny. They new his full name, school, and home address, regularly called him a halfa/half ghost, and messed with him in various ways while in human form. The majority of them might not have even been aware that Danny was even trying to hide his identity at all.

Ollie hates it. This FUCKER is some how, SOME WAY, taking advantage of the working man. He can FEEL it in his "hey... you should start a union" bones. But SOMEHOW? Ohoooh ho ho! SOMEHOW? He's found the MOST "workin man" lookin mother fucker OUT THERE?

And gotten him to BEEF with Ollie over boxes?!

YOU BASTARD.

The boxes only work in Star City, so the league decides to drop by and investigate on their own time.

Flash tests it, to see just how fast he can enter a building with the box still tracking him. The answer is surprising: it’s up until he starts breaking through the time barrier. Not only that, but Flash gets weird vibes when he approaches the time barrier while in Star City. As though something is watching him. Flash doesn’t always exercise caution, but he does this time. He makes a note of it and leaves the investigation to Batman.

Wonder Woman just meets with Danny over it. Danny agrees to attest it’s safe under the Lasso of Truth, so long as that’s the only question she asks. Once it’s confirmed, Wonder Woman decides it’s none of her business, and tries to convince the league to drop the case- or in Batman’s case, to move the case down on the priority list. An Arkham breakout causes this to happen.

Aquaman is the next to drop in, though he’s just in the area for something unrelated. He agrees with Wonder Woman, and lets Green Arrow know that sometimes it’s best to not pry. These things are delicate. The Fentons deserve privacy, and rooting for answers could do more harm than good.

Green Arrow is still suspicious. He can’t stop worrying this is some kind of scheme. Maybe the Fentons are working for someone else, someone who’s manipulating them.

Captain Marvel shows up as Billy Batson, after telling Arrow he’d come in disguise and not to look for him. Billy is able to see the number of Blob ghosts in the city, a number that indicates a doorway to the realms is open.

Billy suspects it’s a small door, only big enough to fit the little blob ghosts. After all, apparently this problem has been going on for a while, and the apocalypse hasn’t happened, so things are fine. Closing a naturally formed doorway would be a very difficult task, and could trap the blobs on this side, where they’d be unable to complete ecto-filtration cycles. That could form into an actual problem.

Still, there’s the matter of the boxes. Someone trained the ghosts to input information to a computer.

He goes to the Fenton Works building, and meets a god.

He calls himself the Box Ghost. Billy asks him questions, careful to be polite the entire time. The Box Ghost has no harmful intentions towards any human but Oliver Quinn, aka Green Arrow. Apparently Arrow insulted His boxes. Box Ghost is under orders from the Ghost King not to seriously harm Oliver in retaliation, but he’s allowed to inconvenience Oliver, and perform some harmless pranks.

Billy agrees it’s more than fair, and joins Wonder Woman on her crusade of trying to get Oliver to drop the investigation. Fighting against a god would probably result in lots of death. If Oliver stops prodding, nothing will happen.

He also warns Oliver against harming any pranksters or attempting to retaliate against people annoying him. Again, fighting a realms ghost is probably bad.

The Box Ghost’s appearance alters Billy’s idea of what’s going on. There’s a larger doorway, but it’s likely being guarded. That, or someone specifically summoned Box Ghost.

Billy writes up his report for the league, filled with warnings, and dozens of statements to drop the investigation.

For about a month nothing happens. Then, Batman’s schedule clears up. Oliver proceeds to make a bad choice.

The first thing he does is gather the reports from the rest of the Justice League. If this problem is big enough for Arrow to call heavy hitter League members to look at it, and somehow small enough for Batman to leave it for after the Arkham breakout, than there is time enough for Batman to gather outside information before listening to Arrow.

What he finds is... strange.

He reads Wonder Woman's report first. Not out of any disrespect for Captain Marvel, of course, but that man was not consistent with modern spelling.

She reports that she spoke to the owner about his home security product, asked if it was safe under the lasso of truth, and left after positive confirmation. It was less than a standard sized page long.

Safety... Batman mulls this over. The lasso compels the truth. Lying by ommission was difficult. A random civillian would likely not have the capability.

So the product does not cause harm under the view of Fenton Securities, and has been empirically proven to be effective by the entire city and Flash himself.

Batman considers. Fenton, talk to Arrow, or Marvel's report?

He decides to look into Fenton Securities.

The CEO was one Daniel James Fenton, born and raised in Amity Park, Illinois, USA. Older sister, who was in Gotham, intending to be a psychiatrist in Arkham (Batman flags this for later on principle). No social media for them, or the parents. The parents were inventors, for... His brows rose. That was a government code used in projects by Amanda Waller. He flags that too.

Danny's friend Samantha Manson had an instagram, where she made many posts about environmentalism. Danny's name occasionally appeared in sentences, untagged. He appeared in photo backgrounds. Black hair, blue eyes, no suspicious scarring or photoshop detected in metadata.

He did not go to college. He started the business three years after high school, with no investors.

Bruce pauses.

Fenton Securities is a sole proprietorship.

Okay. That is weird.

A city wide company has one person at the head of it, fronting the start up capital from... somewhere, he'd set Red Robin on that (he was better at financial records than Oracle). There was seemingly no one else sharing in the management or profits.

They use a local third party delivery service, which was slightly non-standard but not suspicious. It became suspicious when Batman saw that labor margins for Fenton Securities itself were 0%.

There are either no employees, or they aren't getting paid.

The goods are manufactured, inspected, and shipped from a single warehouse.

Batman would have to double check that the man Wonder Woman met was actually this Danny character. This stretched the bounds of belief for what a single human could do alone, legally, and 'safely'.

For the moment, Batman set this aside and turns to Captain's report. If a deep dive in Fenton was not proven necessary, it could wait.

This report is three pages long. This is nothing to comment on. Captain either rambles or writes two sentences and considers something complete.

The first was a typically rambling assessment of, Batman blinks in surprise, Arrow. Captain noted that he seemed "obsessive" over the issue when talking to him before and after the investigation. Insisting that there had to be something Diana missed. Diana.

Marvel went on to explain that he went in disguise to the warehouse, which was clean and had no people in it. Rather, there was, supposedly, a god, who was handling quality control. And manufacturing. Through magic, and a 'nat portal probably dont worry tho seems under control by the god'.

The report does not elaborate.

The last page has a single paragraph concurring with Wonder Woman, and recommending, 'constantean if it becomes a problem otherwise let sleeping dogs lye :) .'

Batman breathes deeply.

He does not want to work with 'constantean'.

He does not want to get involved with magic bullshit, that is set to helping people for once. By getting into the house of every person in the city.

Fuck.

Batman considers.

Talk to Green Arrow in person, or try and meet this Fenton character, who might be a front for a god?

Now Danny had thought that after Wonder Woman, Green Arrow would drop this. But he didn't. And Danny is getting irritated. And coming home to find Batman in his apartment? Well, who can blame Danny for letting his frustrations show? He's only half human.

Batman’s eye narrowed. How does he know Captain Marvel was there?

"I am not here to determine if it is a scam." Batman say.

He refuses to acknowledge the thrown box that sails over his head to hit the wall. Danny pauses in his angry huff to collapse into his sofa, lay down, and scream into the cushions. That done he turns still laying down to look at Batman with a grimace of skepticism.

Batman lets him do this, taking note of the supernatural glow to the eyes and large fangs that disappear after he calms down. How he knew that Marvel had been by is a bit suspicious, but seeing as a god had been mention in the report likely from that. From the report it is likely that Marvel just walked up to the god to ask them directly. Good temper control for what is looking to be a more supernatural inclined individual. That box was never going to come close to hitting him and the display of frustration and deescalation was fairly mild though showy.

"Green Arrow won't leave this alone and has not taken any of the other league members assessments that it is not harmful." Batman continues.

"Of course he won't." Danny sighs.

"It is just the presence of a god that needs clarification. I believe Marvel had them noted as one associated with containers." Batman says before getting interrupted.

"Boxy? He is not a god, just a Realms Ghost. He likes to say he is the master of all things rectangular and square, but not really." Danny says in confusion.

"Noted. He is contracted with you for creating the home security devices." Batman prompts.

"Yeah. When I decided to move he was the one Ghost that was having problems finding a way to satisfy his obsession. I thought that since it is kinda my job to help with that to see if he wanted to help out with making the boxes. It would give him something to do that would not get into trouble back home." Danny says.

Danny is much more relaxed now. It helps that Batman said he does not think it is a scam or asked how it works. A god being reported as doing something in a city is kinda a thing you would want to know about. So yeah he sees why he is here. Also that frustration in Green Arrow not leaving this alone is nice to see.

"I think Boxy also is kinda liking having a Nemesis with Green Arrow. He used to be his chapter of the union's representative when he was alive." Danny admits.

Batman pointy does not say anything about that, but makes a note to check union membership going back the last 50 years. Why does it have to be ghosts. He can't see ghosts and it would explain how the warehouse looks empty. Maybe he can send Deadman to talk to this 'Boxy' and avoid Constantin entirely.

because I feel like they hold.

Oliver isn't just harassing a guy genuinely trying to help people. He's wasting time and resources - his own, his friends', the Justice League's - and fixating so hard on this that (given the tropes of the genre) there is almost certainly something else, an actual problem, going unnoticed in the background. Something that could have been handled already, but will instead spiral out of control because Oliver is looking for fault in all the wrong places.

Fenton Security sells an unobtrusive, small box that is placed next to the front door.

They say that all the customer has to do is place their thumb on the box, let it read their thumbprint, and it's the same as arming or disarming any other security system with a number pad. There's no cameras, for people that value their privacy. The system just logs how many entered the home through hyper sensitive motions sensors that have been specifically designed to not go off on animals.

The reviews are super positive; people get phonecalls the absolute second someone breaks into their house, police are notified in a quick and efficient manner that even describes the number of criminals present.

But.

Oliver grabbed himself one of those devices. He pried it open.

The box is empty.

There's nothing inside of it, not even a spell. The factories are eerily empty; not even a single trace of rats. There's a few that are clearly just for show, but when there's not a tour doing it's rounds, the "workers" step back and relax either on their phones or reading.

So how the fuck is Fenton Security doing this?

Green Arrow: I LOOKED—

Danny: And I'm sure you stuck your finger in and rooted around too. What are you, FOUR? Do you REALLY think that just because you can't see it with the naked eye, it's empty?? Do you not believe in germs either? Do you not believe in carbon dioxide, or methane gas putting holes in the ozone layer? Do you struggle with the idea of putting sunscreen on, since you don't believe in ultraviolet light?

Green arrow:

Danny: *snaps the box shut*

...Maybe Danny happened to be out the day Green Arrow came calling, but Box Ghost was there for an annual inspection and then got super incensed about the false accusations/insinuations that there is something wrong or illicit with the boxes and then basically declared Green Arrow as his arch nemesis.

And, of course, that would also extend to Arrow's civilian identity--because why would a ghost care about that separation? They certainly didn't when it came to Danny. They new his full name, school, and home address, regularly called him a halfa/half ghost, and messed with him in various ways while in human form. The majority of them might not have even been aware that Danny was even trying to hide his identity at all.

Ollie hates it. This FUCKER is some how, SOME WAY, taking advantage of the working man. He can FEEL it in his "hey... you should start a union" bones. But SOMEHOW? Ohoooh ho ho! SOMEHOW? He's found the MOST "workin man" lookin mother fucker OUT THERE?

And gotten him to BEEF with Ollie over boxes?!

YOU BASTARD.

The boxes only work in Star City, so the league decides to drop by and investigate on their own time.

Flash tests it, to see just how fast he can enter a building with the box still tracking him. The answer is surprising: it’s up until he starts breaking through the time barrier. Not only that, but Flash gets weird vibes when he approaches the time barrier while in Star City. As though something is watching him. Flash doesn’t always exercise caution, but he does this time. He makes a note of it and leaves the investigation to Batman.

Wonder Woman just meets with Danny over it. Danny agrees to attest it’s safe under the Lasso of Truth, so long as that’s the only question she asks. Once it’s confirmed, Wonder Woman decides it’s none of her business, and tries to convince the league to drop the case- or in Batman’s case, to move the case down on the priority list. An Arkham breakout causes this to happen.

Aquaman is the next to drop in, though he’s just in the area for something unrelated. He agrees with Wonder Woman, and lets Green Arrow know that sometimes it’s best to not pry. These things are delicate. The Fentons deserve privacy, and rooting for answers could do more harm than good.

Green Arrow is still suspicious. He can’t stop worrying this is some kind of scheme. Maybe the Fentons are working for someone else, someone who’s manipulating them.

Captain Marvel shows up as Billy Batson, after telling Arrow he’d come in disguise and not to look for him. Billy is able to see the number of Blob ghosts in the city, a number that indicates a doorway to the realms is open.

Billy suspects it’s a small door, only big enough to fit the little blob ghosts. After all, apparently this problem has been going on for a while, and the apocalypse hasn’t happened, so things are fine. Closing a naturally formed doorway would be a very difficult task, and could trap the blobs on this side, where they’d be unable to complete ecto-filtration cycles. That could form into an actual problem.

Still, there’s the matter of the boxes. Someone trained the ghosts to input information to a computer.

He goes to the Fenton Works building, and meets a god.

He calls himself the Box Ghost. Billy asks him questions, careful to be polite the entire time. The Box Ghost has no harmful intentions towards any human but Oliver Quinn, aka Green Arrow. Apparently Arrow insulted His boxes. Box Ghost is under orders from the Ghost King not to seriously harm Oliver in retaliation, but he’s allowed to inconvenience Oliver, and perform some harmless pranks.

Billy agrees it’s more than fair, and joins Wonder Woman on her crusade of trying to get Oliver to drop the investigation. Fighting against a god would probably result in lots of death. If Oliver stops prodding, nothing will happen.

He also warns Oliver against harming any pranksters or attempting to retaliate against people annoying him. Again, fighting a realms ghost is probably bad.

The Box Ghost’s appearance alters Billy’s idea of what’s going on. There’s a larger doorway, but it’s likely being guarded. That, or someone specifically summoned Box Ghost.

Billy writes up his report for the league, filled with warnings, and dozens of statements to drop the investigation.

For about a month nothing happens. Then, Batman’s schedule clears up. Oliver proceeds to make a bad choice.

The first thing he does is gather the reports from the rest of the Justice League. If this problem is big enough for Arrow to call heavy hitter League members to look at it, and somehow small enough for Batman to leave it for after the Arkham breakout, than there is time enough for Batman to gather outside information before listening to Arrow.

What he finds is... strange.

He reads Wonder Woman's report first. Not out of any disrespect for Captain Marvel, of course, but that man was not consistent with modern spelling.

She reports that she spoke to the owner about his home security product, asked if it was safe under the lasso of truth, and left after positive confirmation. It was less than a standard sized page long.

Safety... Batman mulls this over. The lasso compels the truth. Lying by ommission was difficult. A random civillian would likely not have the capability.

So the product does not cause harm under the view of Fenton Securities, and has been empirically proven to be effective by the entire city and Flash himself.

Batman considers. Fenton, talk to Arrow, or Marvel's report?

He decides to look into Fenton Securities.

The CEO was one Daniel James Fenton, born and raised in Amity Park, Illinois, USA. Older sister, who was in Gotham, intending to be a psychiatrist in Arkham (Batman flags this for later on principle). No social media for them, or the parents. The parents were inventors, for... His brows rose. That was a government code used in projects by Amanda Waller. He flags that too.

Danny's friend Samantha Manson had an instagram, where she made many posts about environmentalism. Danny's name occasionally appeared in sentences, untagged. He appeared in photo backgrounds. Black hair, blue eyes, no suspicious scarring or photoshop detected in metadata.

He did not go to college. He started the business three years after high school, with no investors.

Bruce pauses.

Fenton Securities is a sole proprietorship.

Okay. That is weird.

A city wide company has one person at the head of it, fronting the start up capital from... somewhere, he'd set Red Robin on that (he was better at financial records than Oracle). There was seemingly no one else sharing in the management or profits.

They use a local third party delivery service, which was slightly non-standard but not suspicious. It became suspicious when Batman saw that labor margins for Fenton Securities itself were 0%.

There are either no employees, or they aren't getting paid.

The goods are manufactured, inspected, and shipped from a single warehouse.

Batman would have to double check that the man Wonder Woman met was actually this Danny character. This stretched the bounds of belief for what a single human could do alone, legally, and 'safely'.

For the moment, Batman set this aside and turns to Captain's report. If a deep dive in Fenton was not proven necessary, it could wait.

This report is three pages long. This is nothing to comment on. Captain either rambles or writes two sentences and considers something complete.

The first was a typically rambling assessment of, Batman blinks in surprise, Arrow. Captain noted that he seemed "obsessive" over the issue when talking to him before and after the investigation. Insisting that there had to be something Diana missed. Diana.

Marvel went on to explain that he went in disguise to the warehouse, which was clean and had no people in it. Rather, there was, supposedly, a god, who was handling quality control. And manufacturing. Through magic, and a 'nat portal probably dont worry tho seems under control by the god'.

The report does not elaborate.

The last page has a single paragraph concurring with Wonder Woman, and recommending, 'constantean if it becomes a problem otherwise let sleeping dogs lye :) .'

Batman breathes deeply.

He does not want to work with 'constantean'.

He does not want to get involved with magic bullshit, that is set to helping people for once. By getting into the house of every person in the city.

Fuck.

Batman considers.

Talk to Green Arrow in person, or try and meet this Fenton character, who might be a front for a god?

Now Danny had thought that after Wonder Woman, Green Arrow would drop this. But he didn't. And Danny is getting irritated. And coming home to find Batman in his apartment? Well, who can blame Danny for letting his frustrations show? He's only half human.

Batman’s eye narrowed. How does he know Captain Marvel was there?

Green Lantern (Hal) is floating there with a smile when he walks over, "Hi! My friend Green Arrow is going a little overboard, and asked me to come check you and your company out. Do you mind if we talk?"

Danny shrugs, and opens the windows the rest of the way, "Come on in," he says a little tired of the dog and pony show.

"I'm just going to have my ring here scan your place, and I'd like to set up a time to come do the same at your factory. I figure you've been bothered enough by the League, and I'm really just doing this as a favor to GA."

Danny shrugs again, "have at it. I'm going to make some soup, want any? I appreciate the courtesy of not just walking in."

"Wonder Woman said it would be rude, I don't like to argue with her. She tends to be correct on matters of etiquette anyway," Hal says with a grin. "She also said she truth lassoed you, and that's always been good enough for me."

"So you work in space right?" Danny asks a little in awe.

"That's my usual. Though I'm on earth a lot." His ring flashes a green light over everything rather quickly as he scans for nearly everything, including Danny.

RING - "EMOTIONAL ENERGY DETECTED - 8.02% ABOVE NORMAL"

"Well, that's odd, but considering the last month you've had a visit from most of the League this is unsurprising. Tomorrow good for the factory? Say 8am? Soup smells good."

"Yeah that's fine, I'll let Boxxy know you're coming. Compliment his boxes, and he'll be fine," said with all due seriousness as he passes Hal a bowl.

"Think he'd like to meet B'ox? He's a Lantern, and a sentient box, I can probably get him here day after tomorrow instead."

Danny laughs, "Boxxy would love that! Day after tomorrow, 11:30, we can do lunch, I'm sure Boxxy wouldn't mind having his wife Lunch Lady bring us a meal. Hope you like meat."

"Sounds good, I'm a meat and potatoes kind of guy. I'll see if Star Sapphire wants to join. She's always good company, too."

~Some time later~

Sam and Tucker enter the apartment, "Hey Danny! we're home!"

"Come meet Green Lantern! We're in the kitchen!"

They enter the room with bewildered looks on their faces, Sam says, "Another one?" Danny and Hal, both with bowls and spoons of soup, are chit chatting about space, grinning and laughing.

"Wanna come to lunch with me, Green Lantern, Star Sapphire, Boxxy, and Lunch Lady day after tomorrow? It can be a triple date while we laugh at Green Arrow's current paranoia."

Hal grins at that, "Don't worry, I've known GA for a long time, I'll talk him down."

~the next day~

Danny looks over at Batman, "Wow, you're fucking rude to break in. You should leave. Now. I use my own security system, and you're going to have the worst time if you don't."

Batman just stares, "I have questions about..."

"I don't care. Get out, or I'm throwing you physically out of the window of my 8th floor apartment," thinks about it, "after I take your belt. The armor will absorb most of the impact, but you'll be out of commission for several days. I'm done playing nice. Also, the police have been notified, and are on their way. I doubt they'd appreciate your breaking and entering as well as your harassment."

Batman looks unperturbed, "You are in no position to make threats..."

Danny looks like he's listening to something, then says, "and then I'll send Wayne Enterprises the bill for damages. Which you will pay. Or I will rat your ass out with your parents; Tom and Martha's, permission. Now. Get. Out."

"The Fenton Security Boxes are haunted." Nightwing said.

"...what?"

"The Boxes are haunted" Nightwing said again.

Green Arrow stared up at him. Nightwing stared back. The Watchtower office airconditioner buzzed. Nightwing stood back up and ran a hand through his hair.

Fenton Security sells an unobtrusive, small box that is placed next to the front door.

They say that all the customer has to do is place their thumb on the box, let it read their thumbprint, and it's the same as arming or disarming any other security system with a number pad. There's no cameras, for people that value their privacy. The system just logs how many entered the home through hyper sensitive motions sensors that have been specifically designed to not go off on animals.

The reviews are super positive; people get phonecalls the absolute second someone breaks into their house, police are notified in a quick and efficient manner that even describes the number of criminals present.

But.

Oliver grabbed himself one of those devices. He pried it open.

The box is empty.

There's nothing inside of it, not even a spell. The factories are eerily empty; not even a single trace of rats. There's a few that are clearly just for show, but when there's not a tour doing it's rounds, the "workers" step back and relax either on their phones or reading.

So how the fuck is Fenton Security doing this?

Green Arrow: I LOOKED—

Danny: And I'm sure you stuck your finger in and rooted around too. What are you, FOUR? Do you REALLY think that just because you can't see it with the naked eye, it's empty?? Do you not believe in germs either? Do you not believe in carbon dioxide, or methane gas putting holes in the ozone layer? Do you struggle with the idea of putting sunscreen on, since you don't believe in ultraviolet light?

Green arrow:

Danny: *snaps the box shut*

...Maybe Danny happened to be out the day Green Arrow came calling, but Box Ghost was there for an annual inspection and then got super incensed about the false accusations/insinuations that there is something wrong or illicit with the boxes and then basically declared Green Arrow as his arch nemesis.

And, of course, that would also extend to Arrow's civilian identity--because why would a ghost care about that separation? They certainly didn't when it came to Danny. They new his full name, school, and home address, regularly called him a halfa/half ghost, and messed with him in various ways while in human form. The majority of them might not have even been aware that Danny was even trying to hide his identity at all.

Ollie hates it. This FUCKER is some how, SOME WAY, taking advantage of the working man. He can FEEL it in his "hey... you should start a union" bones. But SOMEHOW? Ohoooh ho ho! SOMEHOW? He's found the MOST "workin man" lookin mother fucker OUT THERE?

And gotten him to BEEF with Ollie over boxes?!

YOU BASTARD.

The boxes only work in Star City, so the league decides to drop by and investigate on their own time.

Flash tests it, to see just how fast he can enter a building with the box still tracking him. The answer is surprising: it’s up until he starts breaking through the time barrier. Not only that, but Flash gets weird vibes when he approaches the time barrier while in Star City. As though something is watching him. Flash doesn’t always exercise caution, but he does this time. He makes a note of it and leaves the investigation to Batman.

Wonder Woman just meets with Danny over it. Danny agrees to attest it’s safe under the Lasso of Truth, so long as that’s the only question she asks. Once it’s confirmed, Wonder Woman decides it’s none of her business, and tries to convince the league to drop the case- or in Batman’s case, to move the case down on the priority list. An Arkham breakout causes this to happen.

Aquaman is the next to drop in, though he’s just in the area for something unrelated. He agrees with Wonder Woman, and lets Green Arrow know that sometimes it’s best to not pry. These things are delicate. The Fentons deserve privacy, and rooting for answers could do more harm than good.

Green Arrow is still suspicious. He can’t stop worrying this is some kind of scheme. Maybe the Fentons are working for someone else, someone who’s manipulating them.

Captain Marvel shows up as Billy Batson, after telling Arrow he’d come in disguise and not to look for him. Billy is able to see the number of Blob ghosts in the city, a number that indicates a doorway to the realms is open.

Billy suspects it’s a small door, only big enough to fit the little blob ghosts. After all, apparently this problem has been going on for a while, and the apocalypse hasn’t happened, so things are fine. Closing a naturally formed doorway would be a very difficult task, and could trap the blobs on this side, where they’d be unable to complete ecto-filtration cycles. That could form into an actual problem.

Still, there’s the matter of the boxes. Someone trained the ghosts to input information to a computer.

He goes to the Fenton Works building, and meets a god.

He calls himself the Box Ghost. Billy asks him questions, careful to be polite the entire time. The Box Ghost has no harmful intentions towards any human but Oliver Quinn, aka Green Arrow. Apparently Arrow insulted His boxes. Box Ghost is under orders from the Ghost King not to seriously harm Oliver in retaliation, but he’s allowed to inconvenience Oliver, and perform some harmless pranks.

Billy agrees it’s more than fair, and joins Wonder Woman on her crusade of trying to get Oliver to drop the investigation. Fighting against a god would probably result in lots of death. If Oliver stops prodding, nothing will happen.

He also warns Oliver against harming any pranksters or attempting to retaliate against people annoying him. Again, fighting a realms ghost is probably bad.

The Box Ghost’s appearance alters Billy’s idea of what’s going on. There’s a larger doorway, but it’s likely being guarded. That, or someone specifically summoned Box Ghost.

Billy writes up his report for the league, filled with warnings, and dozens of statements to drop the investigation.

For about a month nothing happens. Then, Batman’s schedule clears up. Oliver proceeds to make a bad choice.

The first thing he does is gather the reports from the rest of the Justice League. If this problem is big enough for Arrow to call heavy hitter League members to look at it, and somehow small enough for Batman to leave it for after the Arkham breakout, than there is time enough for Batman to gather outside information before listening to Arrow.

What he finds is... strange.

He reads Wonder Woman's report first. Not out of any disrespect for Captain Marvel, of course, but that man was not consistent with modern spelling.

She reports that she spoke to the owner about his home security product, asked if it was safe under the lasso of truth, and left after positive confirmation. It was less than a standard sized page long.

Safety... Batman mulls this over. The lasso compels the truth. Lying by ommission was difficult. A random civillian would likely not have the capability.

So the product does not cause harm under the view of Fenton Securities, and has been empirically proven to be effective by the entire city and Flash himself.

Batman considers. Fenton, talk to Arrow, or Marvel's report?

He decides to look into Fenton Securities.

The CEO was one Daniel James Fenton, born and raised in Amity Park, Illinois, USA. Older sister, who was in Gotham, intending to be a psychiatrist in Arkham (Batman flags this for later on principle). No social media for them, or the parents. The parents were inventors, for... His brows rose. That was a government code used in projects by Amanda Waller. He flags that too.

Danny's friend Samantha Manson had an instagram, where she made many posts about environmentalism. Danny's name occasionally appeared in sentences, untagged. He appeared in photo backgrounds. Black hair, blue eyes, no suspicious scarring or photoshop detected in metadata.

He did not go to college. He started the business three years after high school, with no investors.

Bruce pauses.

Fenton Securities is a sole proprietorship.

Okay. That is weird.

A city wide company has one person at the head of it, fronting the start up capital from... somewhere, he'd set Red Robin on that (he was better at financial records than Oracle). There was seemingly no one else sharing in the management or profits.

They use a local third party delivery service, which was slightly non-standard but not suspicious. It became suspicious when Batman saw that labor margins for Fenton Securities itself were 0%.

There are either no employees, or they aren't getting paid.

The goods are manufactured, inspected, and shipped from a single warehouse.

Batman would have to double check that the man Wonder Woman met was actually this Danny character. This stretched the bounds of belief for what a single human could do alone, legally, and 'safely'.

For the moment, Batman set this aside and turns to Captain's report. If a deep dive in Fenton was not proven necessary, it could wait.

This report is three pages long. This is nothing to comment on. Captain either rambles or writes two sentences and considers something complete.

The first was a typically rambling assessment of, Batman blinks in surprise, Arrow. Captain noted that he seemed "obsessive" over the issue when talking to him before and after the investigation. Insisting that there had to be something Diana missed. Diana.

Marvel went on to explain that he went in disguise to the warehouse, which was clean and had no people in it. Rather, there was, supposedly, a god, who was handling quality control. And manufacturing. Through magic, and a 'nat portal probably dont worry tho seems under control by the god'.

The report does not elaborate.

The last page has a single paragraph concurring with Wonder Woman, and recommending, 'constantean if it becomes a problem otherwise let sleeping dogs lye :) .'

Batman breathes deeply.

He does not want to work with 'constantean'.

He does not want to get involved with magic bullshit, that is set to helping people for once. By getting into the house of every person in the city.

Fuck.

Batman considers.

Talk to Green Arrow in person, or try and meet this Fenton character, who might be a front for a god?

Now Danny had thought that after Wonder Woman, Green Arrow would drop this. But he didn't. And Danny is getting irritated. And coming home to find Batman in his apartment? Well, who can blame Danny for letting his frustrations show? He's only half human.

Batman’s eye narrowed. How does he know Captain Marvel was there?

Green Lantern (Hal) is floating there with a smile when he walks over, "Hi! My friend Green Arrow is going a little overboard, and asked me to come check you and your company out. Do you mind if we talk?"

Danny shrugs, and opens the windows the rest of the way, "Come on in," he says a little tired of the dog and pony show.

"I'm just going to have my ring here scan your place, and I'd like to set up a time to come do the same at your factory. I figure you've been bothered enough by the League, and I'm really just doing this as a favor to GA."

Danny shrugs again, "have at it. I'm going to make some soup, want any? I appreciate the courtesy of not just walking in."

"Wonder Woman said it would be rude, I don't like to argue with her. She tends to be correct on matters of etiquette anyway," Hal says with a grin. "She also said she truth lassoed you, and that's always been good enough for me."

"So you work in space right?" Danny asks a little in awe.

"That's my usual. Though I'm on earth a lot." His ring flashes a green light over everything rather quickly as he scans for nearly everything, including Danny.

RING - "EMOTIONAL ENERGY DETECTED - 8.02% ABOVE NORMAL"

"Well, that's odd, but considering the last month you've had a visit from most of the League this is unsurprising. Tomorrow good for the factory? Say 8am? Soup smells good."

"Yeah that's fine, I'll let Boxxy know you're coming. Compliment his boxes, and he'll be fine," said with all due seriousness as he passes Hal a bowl.

"Think he'd like to meet B'ox? He's a Lantern, and a sentient box, I can probably get him here day after tomorrow instead."

Danny laughs, "Boxxy would love that! Day after tomorrow, 11:30, we can do lunch, I'm sure Boxxy wouldn't mind having his wife Lunch Lady bring us a meal. Hope you like meat."

"Sounds good, I'm a meat and potatoes kind of guy. I'll see if Star Sapphire wants to join. She's always good company, too."

~Some time later~

Sam and Tucker enter the apartment, "Hey Danny! we're home!"

"Come meet Green Lantern! We're in the kitchen!"

They enter the room with bewildered looks on their faces, Sam says, "Another one?" Danny and Hal, both with bowls and spoons of soup, are chit chatting about space, grinning and laughing.

"Wanna come to lunch with me, Green Lantern, Star Sapphire, Boxxy, and Lunch Lady day after tomorrow? It can be a triple date while we laugh at Green Arrow's current paranoia."

Hal grins at that, "Don't worry, I've known GA for a long time, I'll talk him down."

~the next day~

Danny looks over at Batman, "Wow, you're fucking rude to break in. You should leave. Now. I use my own security system, and you're going to have the worst time if you don't."

Batman just stares, "I have questions about..."

"I don't care. Get out, or I'm throwing you physically out of the window of my 8th floor apartment," thinks about it, "after I take your belt. The armor will absorb most of the impact, but you'll be out of commission for several days. I'm done playing nice. Also, the police have been notified, and are on their way. I doubt they'd appreciate your breaking and entering as well as your harassment."

Batman looks unperturbed, "You are in no position to make threats..."

Danny looks like he's listening to something, then says, "and then I'll send Wayne Enterprises the bill for damages. Which you will pay. Or I will rat your ass out with your parents; Tom and Martha's, permission. Now. Get. Out."

Fenton Security sells an unobtrusive, small box that is placed next to the front door.

They say that all the customer has to do is place their thumb on the box, let it read their thumbprint, and it's the same as arming or disarming any other security system with a number pad. There's no cameras, for people that value their privacy. The system just logs how many entered the home through hyper sensitive motions sensors that have been specifically designed to not go off on animals.

The reviews are super positive; people get phonecalls the absolute second someone breaks into their house, police are notified in a quick and efficient manner that even describes the number of criminals present.

But.

Oliver grabbed himself one of those devices. He pried it open.

The box is empty.

There's nothing inside of it, not even a spell. The factories are eerily empty; not even a single trace of rats. There's a few that are clearly just for show, but when there's not a tour doing it's rounds, the "workers" step back and relax either on their phones or reading.

So how the fuck is Fenton Security doing this?

Green Arrow: I LOOKED—

Danny: And I'm sure you stuck your finger in and rooted around too. What are you, FOUR? Do you REALLY think that just because you can't see it with the naked eye, it's empty?? Do you not believe in germs either? Do you not believe in carbon dioxide, or methane gas putting holes in the ozone layer? Do you struggle with the idea of putting sunscreen on, since you don't believe in ultraviolet light?

Green arrow:

Danny: *snaps the box shut*

...Maybe Danny happened to be out the day Green Arrow came calling, but Box Ghost was there for an annual inspection and then got super incensed about the false accusations/insinuations that there is something wrong or illicit with the boxes and then basically declared Green Arrow as his arch nemesis.

And, of course, that would also extend to Arrow's civilian identity--because why would a ghost care about that separation? They certainly didn't when it came to Danny. They new his full name, school, and home address, regularly called him a halfa/half ghost, and messed with him in various ways while in human form. The majority of them might not have even been aware that Danny was even trying to hide his identity at all.

Ollie hates it. This FUCKER is some how, SOME WAY, taking advantage of the working man. He can FEEL it in his "hey... you should start a union" bones. But SOMEHOW? Ohoooh ho ho! SOMEHOW? He's found the MOST "workin man" lookin mother fucker OUT THERE?

And gotten him to BEEF with Ollie over boxes?!

YOU BASTARD.

The boxes only work in Star City, so the league decides to drop by and investigate on their own time.

Flash tests it, to see just how fast he can enter a building with the box still tracking him. The answer is surprising: it’s up until he starts breaking through the time barrier. Not only that, but Flash gets weird vibes when he approaches the time barrier while in Star City. As though something is watching him. Flash doesn’t always exercise caution, but he does this time. He makes a note of it and leaves the investigation to Batman.

Wonder Woman just meets with Danny over it. Danny agrees to attest it’s safe under the Lasso of Truth, so long as that’s the only question she asks. Once it’s confirmed, Wonder Woman decides it’s none of her business, and tries to convince the league to drop the case- or in Batman’s case, to move the case down on the priority list. An Arkham breakout causes this to happen.

Aquaman is the next to drop in, though he’s just in the area for something unrelated. He agrees with Wonder Woman, and lets Green Arrow know that sometimes it’s best to not pry. These things are delicate. The Fentons deserve privacy, and rooting for answers could do more harm than good.

Green Arrow is still suspicious. He can’t stop worrying this is some kind of scheme. Maybe the Fentons are working for someone else, someone who’s manipulating them.

Captain Marvel shows up as Billy Batson, after telling Arrow he’d come in disguise and not to look for him. Billy is able to see the number of Blob ghosts in the city, a number that indicates a doorway to the realms is open.

Billy suspects it’s a small door, only big enough to fit the little blob ghosts. After all, apparently this problem has been going on for a while, and the apocalypse hasn’t happened, so things are fine. Closing a naturally formed doorway would be a very difficult task, and could trap the blobs on this side, where they’d be unable to complete ecto-filtration cycles. That could form into an actual problem.

Still, there’s the matter of the boxes. Someone trained the ghosts to input information to a computer.

He goes to the Fenton Works building, and meets a god.

He calls himself the Box Ghost. Billy asks him questions, careful to be polite the entire time. The Box Ghost has no harmful intentions towards any human but Oliver Quinn, aka Green Arrow. Apparently Arrow insulted His boxes. Box Ghost is under orders from the Ghost King not to seriously harm Oliver in retaliation, but he’s allowed to inconvenience Oliver, and perform some harmless pranks.

Billy agrees it’s more than fair, and joins Wonder Woman on her crusade of trying to get Oliver to drop the investigation. Fighting against a god would probably result in lots of death. If Oliver stops prodding, nothing will happen.

He also warns Oliver against harming any pranksters or attempting to retaliate against people annoying him. Again, fighting a realms ghost is probably bad.

The Box Ghost’s appearance alters Billy’s idea of what’s going on. There’s a larger doorway, but it’s likely being guarded. That, or someone specifically summoned Box Ghost.

Billy writes up his report for the league, filled with warnings, and dozens of statements to drop the investigation.

For about a month nothing happens. Then, Batman’s schedule clears up. Oliver proceeds to make a bad choice.

The first thing he does is gather the reports from the rest of the Justice League. If this problem is big enough for Arrow to call heavy hitter League members to look at it, and somehow small enough for Batman to leave it for after the Arkham breakout, than there is time enough for Batman to gather outside information before listening to Arrow.

What he finds is... strange.

He reads Wonder Woman's report first. Not out of any disrespect for Captain Marvel, of course, but that man was not consistent with modern spelling.

She reports that she spoke to the owner about his home security product, asked if it was safe under the lasso of truth, and left after positive confirmation. It was less than a standard sized page long.

Safety... Batman mulls this over. The lasso compels the truth. Lying by ommission was difficult. A random civillian would likely not have the capability.

So the product does not cause harm under the view of Fenton Securities, and has been empirically proven to be effective by the entire city and Flash himself.

Batman considers. Fenton, talk to Arrow, or Marvel's report?

He decides to look into Fenton Securities.

The CEO was one Daniel James Fenton, born and raised in Amity Park, Illinois, USA. Older sister, who was in Gotham, intending to be a psychiatrist in Arkham (Batman flags this for later on principle). No social media for them, or the parents. The parents were inventors, for... His brows rose. That was a government code used in projects by Amanda Waller. He flags that too.

Danny's friend Samantha Manson had an instagram, where she made many posts about environmentalism. Danny's name occasionally appeared in sentences, untagged. He appeared in photo backgrounds. Black hair, blue eyes, no suspicious scarring or photoshop detected in metadata.

He did not go to college. He started the business three years after high school, with no investors.

Bruce pauses.

Fenton Securities is a sole proprietorship.

Okay. That is weird.

A city wide company has one person at the head of it, fronting the start up capital from... somewhere, he'd set Red Robin on that (he was better at financial records than Oracle). There was seemingly no one else sharing in the management or profits.

They use a local third party delivery service, which was slightly non-standard but not suspicious. It became suspicious when Batman saw that labor margins for Fenton Securities itself were 0%.

There are either no employees, or they aren't getting paid.

The goods are manufactured, inspected, and shipped from a single warehouse.

Batman would have to double check that the man Wonder Woman met was actually this Danny character. This stretched the bounds of belief for what a single human could do alone, legally, and 'safely'.

For the moment, Batman set this aside and turns to Captain's report. If a deep dive in Fenton was not proven necessary, it could wait.

This report is three pages long. This is nothing to comment on. Captain either rambles or writes two sentences and considers something complete.

The first was a typically rambling assessment of, Batman blinks in surprise, Arrow. Captain noted that he seemed "obsessive" over the issue when talking to him before and after the investigation. Insisting that there had to be something Diana missed. Diana.

Marvel went on to explain that he went in disguise to the warehouse, which was clean and had no people in it. Rather, there was, supposedly, a god, who was handling quality control. And manufacturing. Through magic, and a 'nat portal probably dont worry tho seems under control by the god'.

The report does not elaborate.

The last page has a single paragraph concurring with Wonder Woman, and recommending, 'constantean if it becomes a problem otherwise let sleeping dogs lye :) .'

Batman breathes deeply.

He does not want to work with 'constantean'.

He does not want to get involved with magic bullshit, that is set to helping people for once. By getting into the house of every person in the city.

Fuck.

Batman considers.

Talk to Green Arrow in person, or try and meet this Fenton character, who might be a front for a god?

Now Danny had thought that after Wonder Woman, Green Arrow would drop this. But he didn't. And Danny is getting irritated. And coming home to find Batman in his apartment? Well, who can blame Danny for letting his frustrations show? He's only half human.

Batman’s eye narrowed. How does he know Captain Marvel was there?

"I am not here to determine if it is a scam." Batman say.

He refuses to acknowledge the thrown box that sails over his head to hit the wall. Danny pauses in his angry huff to collapse into his sofa, lay down, and scream into the cushions. That done he turns still laying down to look at Batman with a grimace of skepticism.

Batman lets him do this, taking note of the supernatural glow to the eyes and large fangs that disappear after he calms down. How he knew that Marvel had been by is a bit suspicious, but seeing as a god had been mention in the report likely from that. From the report it is likely that Marvel just walked up to the god to ask them directly. Good temper control for what is looking to be a more supernatural inclined individual. That box was never going to come close to hitting him and the display of frustration and deescalation was fairly mild though showy.

"Green Arrow won't leave this alone and has not taken any of the other league members assessments that it is not harmful." Batman continues.

"Of course he won't." Danny sighs.

"It is just the presence of a god that needs clarification. I believe Marvel had them noted as one associated with containers." Batman says before getting interrupted.

"Boxy? He is not a god, just a Realms Ghost. He likes to say he is the master of all things rectangular and square, but not really." Danny says in confusion.

"Noted. He is contracted with you for creating the home security devices." Batman prompts.

"Yeah. When I decided to move he was the one Ghost that was having problems finding a way to satisfy his obsession. I thought that since it is kinda my job to help with that to see if he wanted to help out with making the boxes. It would give him something to do that would not get into trouble back home." Danny says.

Danny is much more relaxed now. It helps that Batman said he does not think it is a scam or asked how it works. A god being reported as doing something in a city is kinda a thing you would want to know about. So yeah he sees why he is here. Also that frustration in Green Arrow not leaving this alone is nice to see.

"I think Boxy also is kinda liking having a Nemesis with Green Arrow. He used to be his chapter of the union's representative when he was alive." Danny admits.

Batman pointy does not say anything about that, but makes a note to check union membership going back the last 50 years. Why does it have to be ghosts. He can't see ghosts and it would explain how the warehouse looks empty. Maybe he can send Deadman to talk to this 'Boxy' and avoid Constantin entirely.

Fenton Security sells an unobtrusive, small box that is placed next to the front door.

They say that all the customer has to do is place their thumb on the box, let it read their thumbprint, and it's the same as arming or disarming any other security system with a number pad. There's no cameras, for people that value their privacy. The system just logs how many entered the home through hyper sensitive motions sensors that have been specifically designed to not go off on animals.

The reviews are super positive; people get phonecalls the absolute second someone breaks into their house, police are notified in a quick and efficient manner that even describes the number of criminals present.

But.

Oliver grabbed himself one of those devices. He pried it open.

The box is empty.

There's nothing inside of it, not even a spell. The factories are eerily empty; not even a single trace of rats. There's a few that are clearly just for show, but when there's not a tour doing it's rounds, the "workers" step back and relax either on their phones or reading.

So how the fuck is Fenton Security doing this?

Green Arrow: I LOOKED—

Danny: And I'm sure you stuck your finger in and rooted around too. What are you, FOUR? Do you REALLY think that just because you can't see it with the naked eye, it's empty?? Do you not believe in germs either? Do you not believe in carbon dioxide, or methane gas putting holes in the ozone layer? Do you struggle with the idea of putting sunscreen on, since you don't believe in ultraviolet light?

Green arrow:

Danny: *snaps the box shut*

...Maybe Danny happened to be out the day Green Arrow came calling, but Box Ghost was there for an annual inspection and then got super incensed about the false accusations/insinuations that there is something wrong or illicit with the boxes and then basically declared Green Arrow as his arch nemesis.

And, of course, that would also extend to Arrow's civilian identity--because why would a ghost care about that separation? They certainly didn't when it came to Danny. They new his full name, school, and home address, regularly called him a halfa/half ghost, and messed with him in various ways while in human form. The majority of them might not have even been aware that Danny was even trying to hide his identity at all.

Ollie hates it. This FUCKER is some how, SOME WAY, taking advantage of the working man. He can FEEL it in his "hey... you should start a union" bones. But SOMEHOW? Ohoooh ho ho! SOMEHOW? He's found the MOST "workin man" lookin mother fucker OUT THERE?

And gotten him to BEEF with Ollie over boxes?!

YOU BASTARD.

The boxes only work in Star City, so the league decides to drop by and investigate on their own time.

Flash tests it, to see just how fast he can enter a building with the box still tracking him. The answer is surprising: it’s up until he starts breaking through the time barrier. Not only that, but Flash gets weird vibes when he approaches the time barrier while in Star City. As though something is watching him. Flash doesn’t always exercise caution, but he does this time. He makes a note of it and leaves the investigation to Batman.

Wonder Woman just meets with Danny over it. Danny agrees to attest it’s safe under the Lasso of Truth, so long as that’s the only question she asks. Once it’s confirmed, Wonder Woman decides it’s none of her business, and tries to convince the league to drop the case- or in Batman’s case, to move the case down on the priority list. An Arkham breakout causes this to happen.

Aquaman is the next to drop in, though he’s just in the area for something unrelated. He agrees with Wonder Woman, and lets Green Arrow know that sometimes it’s best to not pry. These things are delicate. The Fentons deserve privacy, and rooting for answers could do more harm than good.

Green Arrow is still suspicious. He can’t stop worrying this is some kind of scheme. Maybe the Fentons are working for someone else, someone who’s manipulating them.

Captain Marvel shows up as Billy Batson, after telling Arrow he’d come in disguise and not to look for him. Billy is able to see the number of Blob ghosts in the city, a number that indicates a doorway to the realms is open.

Billy suspects it’s a small door, only big enough to fit the little blob ghosts. After all, apparently this problem has been going on for a while, and the apocalypse hasn’t happened, so things are fine. Closing a naturally formed doorway would be a very difficult task, and could trap the blobs on this side, where they’d be unable to complete ecto-filtration cycles. That could form into an actual problem.

Still, there’s the matter of the boxes. Someone trained the ghosts to input information to a computer.

He goes to the Fenton Works building, and meets a god.

He calls himself the Box Ghost. Billy asks him questions, careful to be polite the entire time. The Box Ghost has no harmful intentions towards any human but Oliver Quinn, aka Green Arrow. Apparently Arrow insulted His boxes. Box Ghost is under orders from the Ghost King not to seriously harm Oliver in retaliation, but he’s allowed to inconvenience Oliver, and perform some harmless pranks.

Billy agrees it’s more than fair, and joins Wonder Woman on her crusade of trying to get Oliver to drop the investigation. Fighting against a god would probably result in lots of death. If Oliver stops prodding, nothing will happen.

He also warns Oliver against harming any pranksters or attempting to retaliate against people annoying him. Again, fighting a realms ghost is probably bad.

The Box Ghost’s appearance alters Billy’s idea of what’s going on. There’s a larger doorway, but it’s likely being guarded. That, or someone specifically summoned Box Ghost.

Billy writes up his report for the league, filled with warnings, and dozens of statements to drop the investigation.

For about a month nothing happens. Then, Batman’s schedule clears up. Oliver proceeds to make a bad choice.

The first thing he does is gather the reports from the rest of the Justice League. If this problem is big enough for Arrow to call heavy hitter League members to look at it, and somehow small enough for Batman to leave it for after the Arkham breakout, than there is time enough for Batman to gather outside information before listening to Arrow.

What he finds is... strange.

He reads Wonder Woman's report first. Not out of any disrespect for Captain Marvel, of course, but that man was not consistent with modern spelling.

She reports that she spoke to the owner about his home security product, asked if it was safe under the lasso of truth, and left after positive confirmation. It was less than a standard sized page long.

Safety... Batman mulls this over. The lasso compels the truth. Lying by ommission was difficult. A random civillian would likely not have the capability.

So the product does not cause harm under the view of Fenton Securities, and has been empirically proven to be effective by the entire city and Flash himself.

Batman considers. Fenton, talk to Arrow, or Marvel's report?

He decides to look into Fenton Securities.

The CEO was one Daniel James Fenton, born and raised in Amity Park, Illinois, USA. Older sister, who was in Gotham, intending to be a psychiatrist in Arkham (Batman flags this for later on principle). No social media for them, or the parents. The parents were inventors, for... His brows rose. That was a government code used in projects by Amanda Waller. He flags that too.

Danny's friend Samantha Manson had an instagram, where she made many posts about environmentalism. Danny's name occasionally appeared in sentences, untagged. He appeared in photo backgrounds. Black hair, blue eyes, no suspicious scarring or photoshop detected in metadata.

He did not go to college. He started the business three years after high school, with no investors.

Bruce pauses.

Fenton Securities is a sole proprietorship.

Okay. That is weird.

A city wide company has one person at the head of it, fronting the start up capital from... somewhere, he'd set Red Robin on that (he was better at financial records than Oracle). There was seemingly no one else sharing in the management or profits.

They use a local third party delivery service, which was slightly non-standard but not suspicious. It became suspicious when Batman saw that labor margins for Fenton Securities itself were 0%.

There are either no employees, or they aren't getting paid.

The goods are manufactured, inspected, and shipped from a single warehouse.

Batman would have to double check that the man Wonder Woman met was actually this Danny character. This stretched the bounds of belief for what a single human could do alone, legally, and 'safely'.

For the moment, Batman set this aside and turns to Captain's report. If a deep dive in Fenton was not proven necessary, it could wait.

This report is three pages long. This is nothing to comment on. Captain either rambles or writes two sentences and considers something complete.

The first was a typically rambling assessment of, Batman blinks in surprise, Arrow. Captain noted that he seemed "obsessive" over the issue when talking to him before and after the investigation. Insisting that there had to be something Diana missed. Diana.

Marvel went on to explain that he went in disguise to the warehouse, which was clean and had no people in it. Rather, there was, supposedly, a god, who was handling quality control. And manufacturing. Through magic, and a 'nat portal probably dont worry tho seems under control by the god'.

The report does not elaborate.

The last page has a single paragraph concurring with Wonder Woman, and recommending, 'constantean if it becomes a problem otherwise let sleeping dogs lye :) .'

Batman breathes deeply.

He does not want to work with 'constantean'.

He does not want to get involved with magic bullshit, that is set to helping people for once. By getting into the house of every person in the city.

Fuck.

Batman considers.

Talk to Green Arrow in person, or try and meet this Fenton character, who might be a front for a god?

Now Danny had thought that after Wonder Woman, Green Arrow would drop this. But he didn't. And Danny is getting irritated. And coming home to find Batman in his apartment? Well, who can blame Danny for letting his frustrations show? He's only half human.

Batman’s eye narrowed. How does he know Captain Marvel was there?

"I am not here to determine if it is a scam." Batman say.

He refuses to acknowledge the thrown box that sails over his head to hit the wall. Danny pauses in his angry huff to collapse into his sofa, lay down, and scream into the cushions. That done he turns still laying down to look at Batman with a grimace of skepticism.

Batman lets him do this, taking note of the supernatural glow to the eyes and large fangs that disappear after he calms down. How he knew that Marvel had been by is a bit suspicious, but seeing as a god had been mention in the report likely from that. From the report it is likely that Marvel just walked up to the god to ask them directly. Good temper control for what is looking to be a more supernatural inclined individual. That box was never going to come close to hitting him and the display of frustration and deescalation was fairly mild though showy.

"Green Arrow won't leave this alone and has not taken any of the other league members assessments that it is not harmful." Batman continues.

"Of course he won't." Danny sighs.

"It is just the presence of a god that needs clarification. I believe Marvel had them noted as one associated with containers." Batman says before getting interrupted.

"Boxy? He is not a god, just a Realms Ghost. He likes to say he is the master of all things rectangular and square, but not really." Danny says in confusion.

"Noted. He is contracted with you for creating the home security devices." Batman prompts.

"Yeah. When I decided to move he was the one Ghost that was having problems finding a way to satisfy his obsession. I thought that since it is kinda my job to help with that to see if he wanted to help out with making the boxes. It would give him something to do that would not get into trouble back home." Danny says.

Danny is much more relaxed now. It helps that Batman said he does not think it is a scam or asked how it works. A god being reported as doing something in a city is kinda a thing you would want to know about. So yeah he sees why he is here. Also that frustration in Green Arrow not leaving this alone is nice to see.

"I think Boxy also is kinda liking having a Nemesis with Green Arrow. He used to be his chapter of the union's representative when he was alive." Danny admits.

Batman pointy does not say anything about that, but makes a note to check union membership going back the last 50 years. Why does it have to be ghosts. He can't see ghosts and it would explain how the warehouse looks empty. Maybe he can send Deadman to talk to this 'Boxy' and avoid Constantin entirely.

Fenton Security sells an unobtrusive, small box that is placed next to the front door.

They say that all the customer has to do is place their thumb on the box, let it read their thumbprint, and it's the same as arming or disarming any other security system with a number pad. There's no cameras, for people that value their privacy. The system just logs how many entered the home through hyper sensitive motions sensors that have been specifically designed to not go off on animals.

The reviews are super positive; people get phonecalls the absolute second someone breaks into their house, police are notified in a quick and efficient manner that even describes the number of criminals present.

But.

Oliver grabbed himself one of those devices. He pried it open.

The box is empty.

There's nothing inside of it, not even a spell. The factories are eerily empty; not even a single trace of rats. There's a few that are clearly just for show, but when there's not a tour doing it's rounds, the "workers" step back and relax either on their phones or reading.

So how the fuck is Fenton Security doing this?

Green Arrow: I LOOKED—

Danny: And I'm sure you stuck your finger in and rooted around too. What are you, FOUR? Do you REALLY think that just because you can't see it with the naked eye, it's empty?? Do you not believe in germs either? Do you not believe in carbon dioxide, or methane gas putting holes in the ozone layer? Do you struggle with the idea of putting sunscreen on, since you don't believe in ultraviolet light?

Green arrow:

Danny: *snaps the box shut*

...Maybe Danny happened to be out the day Green Arrow came calling, but Box Ghost was there for an annual inspection and then got super incensed about the false accusations/insinuations that there is something wrong or illicit with the boxes and then basically declared Green Arrow as his arch nemesis.

And, of course, that would also extend to Arrow's civilian identity--because why would a ghost care about that separation? They certainly didn't when it came to Danny. They new his full name, school, and home address, regularly called him a halfa/half ghost, and messed with him in various ways while in human form. The majority of them might not have even been aware that Danny was even trying to hide his identity at all.

Ollie hates it. This FUCKER is some how, SOME WAY, taking advantage of the working man. He can FEEL it in his "hey... you should start a union" bones. But SOMEHOW? Ohoooh ho ho! SOMEHOW? He's found the MOST "workin man" lookin mother fucker OUT THERE?

And gotten him to BEEF with Ollie over boxes?!

YOU BASTARD.

The boxes only work in Star City, so the league decides to drop by and investigate on their own time.

Flash tests it, to see just how fast he can enter a building with the box still tracking him. The answer is surprising: it’s up until he starts breaking through the time barrier. Not only that, but Flash gets weird vibes when he approaches the time barrier while in Star City. As though something is watching him. Flash doesn’t always exercise caution, but he does this time. He makes a note of it and leaves the investigation to Batman.

Wonder Woman just meets with Danny over it. Danny agrees to attest it’s safe under the Lasso of Truth, so long as that’s the only question she asks. Once it’s confirmed, Wonder Woman decides it’s none of her business, and tries to convince the league to drop the case- or in Batman’s case, to move the case down on the priority list. An Arkham breakout causes this to happen.

Aquaman is the next to drop in, though he’s just in the area for something unrelated. He agrees with Wonder Woman, and lets Green Arrow know that sometimes it’s best to not pry. These things are delicate. The Fentons deserve privacy, and rooting for answers could do more harm than good.

Green Arrow is still suspicious. He can’t stop worrying this is some kind of scheme. Maybe the Fentons are working for someone else, someone who’s manipulating them.

Captain Marvel shows up as Billy Batson, after telling Arrow he’d come in disguise and not to look for him. Billy is able to see the number of Blob ghosts in the city, a number that indicates a doorway to the realms is open.

Billy suspects it’s a small door, only big enough to fit the little blob ghosts. After all, apparently this problem has been going on for a while, and the apocalypse hasn’t happened, so things are fine. Closing a naturally formed doorway would be a very difficult task, and could trap the blobs on this side, where they’d be unable to complete ecto-filtration cycles. That could form into an actual problem.

Still, there’s the matter of the boxes. Someone trained the ghosts to input information to a computer.

He goes to the Fenton Works building, and meets a god.

He calls himself the Box Ghost. Billy asks him questions, careful to be polite the entire time. The Box Ghost has no harmful intentions towards any human but Oliver Quinn, aka Green Arrow. Apparently Arrow insulted His boxes. Box Ghost is under orders from the Ghost King not to seriously harm Oliver in retaliation, but he’s allowed to inconvenience Oliver, and perform some harmless pranks.

Billy agrees it’s more than fair, and joins Wonder Woman on her crusade of trying to get Oliver to drop the investigation. Fighting against a god would probably result in lots of death. If Oliver stops prodding, nothing will happen.

He also warns Oliver against harming any pranksters or attempting to retaliate against people annoying him. Again, fighting a realms ghost is probably bad.

The Box Ghost’s appearance alters Billy’s idea of what’s going on. There’s a larger doorway, but it’s likely being guarded. That, or someone specifically summoned Box Ghost.

Billy writes up his report for the league, filled with warnings, and dozens of statements to drop the investigation.

For about a month nothing happens. Then, Batman’s schedule clears up. Oliver proceeds to make a bad choice.

The first thing he does is gather the reports from the rest of the Justice League. If this problem is big enough for Arrow to call heavy hitter League members to look at it, and somehow small enough for Batman to leave it for after the Arkham breakout, than there is time enough for Batman to gather outside information before listening to Arrow.

What he finds is... strange.

He reads Wonder Woman's report first. Not out of any disrespect for Captain Marvel, of course, but that man was not consistent with modern spelling.

She reports that she spoke to the owner about his home security product, asked if it was safe under the lasso of truth, and left after positive confirmation. It was less than a standard sized page long.

Safety... Batman mulls this over. The lasso compels the truth. Lying by ommission was difficult. A random civillian would likely not have the capability.

So the product does not cause harm under the view of Fenton Securities, and has been empirically proven to be effective by the entire city and Flash himself.

Batman considers. Fenton, talk to Arrow, or Marvel's report?

He decides to look into Fenton Securities.

The CEO was one Daniel James Fenton, born and raised in Amity Park, Illinois, USA. Older sister, who was in Gotham, intending to be a psychiatrist in Arkham (Batman flags this for later on principle). No social media for them, or the parents. The parents were inventors, for... His brows rose. That was a government code used in projects by Amanda Waller. He flags that too.

Danny's friend Samantha Manson had an instagram, where she made many posts about environmentalism. Danny's name occasionally appeared in sentences, untagged. He appeared in photo backgrounds. Black hair, blue eyes, no suspicious scarring or photoshop detected in metadata.

He did not go to college. He started the business three years after high school, with no investors.

Bruce pauses.

Fenton Securities is a sole proprietorship.

Okay. That is weird.

A city wide company has one person at the head of it, fronting the start up capital from... somewhere, he'd set Red Robin on that (he was better at financial records than Oracle). There was seemingly no one else sharing in the management or profits.

They use a local third party delivery service, which was slightly non-standard but not suspicious. It became suspicious when Batman saw that labor margins for Fenton Securities itself were 0%.

There are either no employees, or they aren't getting paid.

The goods are manufactured, inspected, and shipped from a single warehouse.

Batman would have to double check that the man Wonder Woman met was actually this Danny character. This stretched the bounds of belief for what a single human could do alone, legally, and 'safely'.

For the moment, Batman set this aside and turns to Captain's report. If a deep dive in Fenton was not proven necessary, it could wait.

This report is three pages long. This is nothing to comment on. Captain either rambles or writes two sentences and considers something complete.

The first was a typically rambling assessment of, Batman blinks in surprise, Arrow. Captain noted that he seemed "obsessive" over the issue when talking to him before and after the investigation. Insisting that there had to be something Diana missed. Diana.

Marvel went on to explain that he went in disguise to the warehouse, which was clean and had no people in it. Rather, there was, supposedly, a god, who was handling quality control. And manufacturing. Through magic, and a 'nat portal probably dont worry tho seems under control by the god'.

The report does not elaborate.

The last page has a single paragraph concurring with Wonder Woman, and recommending, 'constantean if it becomes a problem otherwise let sleeping dogs lye :) .'

Batman breathes deeply.

He does not want to work with 'constantean'.

He does not want to get involved with magic bullshit, that is set to helping people for once. By getting into the house of every person in the city.

Fuck.

Batman considers.

Talk to Green Arrow in person, or try and meet this Fenton character, who might be a front for a god?

Now Danny had thought that after Wonder Woman, Green Arrow would drop this. But he didn't. And Danny is getting irritated. And coming home to find Batman in his apartment? Well, who can blame Danny for letting his frustrations show? He's only half human.

Batman’s eye narrowed. How does he know Captain Marvel was there?

It’s an excuse to not socialize, Batman is taking it.

Using his analysis equipment, Batman discovers… an empty box. There’s not even weird residue on it. It’s just a box.

It’s made of cardboard, colored with standard printer ink, mass produced and hand-folded into shape.

For gods sakes, there’s scotch tape on it.

It shouldn’t work. There’s no logical explaination for it.

Batman truly hates magic.

He’s about to give up, when a piece of equipment gets a reading.

Dick once had a mission into a pocket dimension junk shop. He had picked up a device for Bruce: a meter that would measure the presence of“bodacious vibes”.

Batman received that as a Father’s Day present.

It had never gone off before. Batman had assumed it was defunct. After confirming it wasn’t dangerous, he left it in the part of the Batcave full of things Batman was too sentimental to lose. Gothams harbors were too polluted for ordinary sea-life, but Batman couldn’t possibly get rid of his shark repellant bat spray.

Batman stared at the reading.

“These vibes are totally chill man! Hang loose, my dude, and roll with the motions of the universe.”