2am things that won't leave me alone.

Back when they were younger, tucker with the unintentional help of Technus, managed to create a server that used the ghost zone as its base point. It is untraceable, relatively undetectable, and has service so good that it can literally reach different dimensions. So, when things ramped up during their third year, all communications, chat rooms, photos as well as accounts viewing other online sites went into this server.

This worked wonderfully for team phantom as "dead zones"(ha) and worries of hacking suddenly became almost nonexistent and the Fentons who had recently cut off all work with the government after Danny's reveal were looking for new ways to hide their (to be revised) life's work from the prying eyes of the government.

Danny, who had recently gained a huge spike in power due to him taking the crown of fire in preparation for his upcoming coronation as crowned prince, chose to drop out of high-school mid year due to the GIW being able to track him much easier anytime he left the house. While not ideal this actually worked out well for Danny(He switched to online school and finished with high honors)

Sam, Tucker, Valerie, and the Fentons seniors on the other hand were very VERY unhappy that their son/ex/boyfriend/friend was basically being put on house arrest for existing and began their individual plans to fuck with the government. (Jazz is also not happy but is currently at Yale studying to be a psychologist for children with abusive/dramatic upbringings and is stuck avoiding talking about anything out of the ordinary as she needs to use a normal phone to talk with Danny without a way to charge her Fenton phone. Jazz has also changed her name to nightingale, while her parents were a bit hurt, they did understand wanting to make a name for yourself without being compared to your already doctor parents)

Tucker has started to hack the government through GIW servers. Spilling out government coverups and trying to cause as much of a media government conspiracy shit storm for them as possible. He chose to go under the code name Pharoah, making a name for himself in the underground as a hacker as formidable as oracle themselves. He, after everything, moves to Star City to begin his own very successful tech business.

FRAIR Inc. Took market's by storm showing to be one of the most promising up and coming tech companies spanning everything from cyber security to edge cutting medical tech. To the outside world, his employees were practically ghosts (litterally in some cases), slowly creeping up on giants like Wanye enterprise and Queen Industries. Hands down one of the best places to work for, even if the CEO was occasionally found near some shady things,Mr.Foley was proven innocent every time, and his very loyal employees were getting sick of other companies trying to compare him to creeps like Luther. (Tucker still kept an ear on anything related to Danny on the normal human servers in case the GIW reared thier ugly head)

Sam, much to everyone’s surprise reached back into her rich roots and makes the name Manson something to fear. She finally sits down with her parents, and they talk it out. All of it, her hurt, their hurt, the fights. It takes more than one conversation, a lot of tears, but they do work it out. Because her parents at the end of the day do care about her. They want their baby to be safe and happy and successful in what she does, and after talking about the GIW and how they have been targeting her and her friends, she is clearly not safe! Her parents agree to teach her all they know about throwing their weight around in high class social circles and how to tear apart "untouchable groups" financially and socially so thoroughly that there was no hope of recovery. Sam for her part agreed to her some of her parents requests as well, she would start representing the Manson name and act like a lady in public settings, attending more high class social gatherings and parties (with the stipulation that she would get to dress and be herself, she could be both goth and high class! her mother agreed admitting that she did secretly love her Gothic prom dress she had made two years ago) she later takes over leading their largest company in metropolis spreading her reach into outreach programs and environmental protection. She is slowly becoming metropolis' most beloved socialite generally making life miserable for both Lex and Superman.

Lex because the anti-ecto laws were passed under the radar during his stint as president and superman because while it may have been proven that the JL was not in fact ignoring their calls for help, she is still hella salty about all the shit team phantom went through and is petty. Also, their fights keep causing pollution and property damage! Danny got that shit under control a year in and without training! Step the fuck up boy scout!

The Mansons are thrilled to be able to brag about at galas with how much their company has grown since Sam took over and how proud they are of their "little girl" and "how much she cares about the environment and the less fortunate" all pink and fluff with sparkly blinders on, all the while Sam is standing slightly behind them, quite, dressed to the nines in a Morticia Addams-esc dress, smirking like she would eat you alive in a board room if you so much as breath wrong.

The Fentons senor really didn't change to much. They did cut ties with the government and instead have moved to selling self-protection devices that protect against humans and ghosts! They are still researching ghosts but have taken down as much of their published works as possible for revisions. They have instead turned from wanting to catch ghosts to wanting to meet any ghost willing to talk with them about ghost culture and biology.

They also start to "accidentally" target any GIW that comes within 100 feet of them, claiming how "oh I though we fixed that bug" or "sorry our gun seems to be malfunctioning". This leads a lot of Amity to realize how often the self-defence gadgets could "malfunction" weird how they only seemed to do that around GIW agents.

Valerie was the only one to go the official “hero” route. Having put the pieces together in second year after meeting Dani. Finally working up the courage Valerie had confronted team Phantom about Danny being Phantom. All the lies were aried out from both side, both sides working out thier problems and apologizing. Team phantom for not telling her the truth after Dani, and Valerie for her now admittedly unfair blaming of danny for her lifes problems. Having spent the past year coming to terms with herself about what she was truly angry about. The betrayal from her so called "friends" the A-listers, the life changes she was not prepared for, watching her dad slowly wear down as bills built up. She had needed an outlet, a scapegoat, and at the time, it had been easier to jump on the Ghosts are evil then to accept that this was her life.

During third year, Valerie buckled down on protecting what was really important to her. Taking a job under Manson incorporated Valerie took over as Sam's "body guard", slowly taking over the "physical threat" of things for team Phantom. Angry about being ignored by the JL Valerie (with the help of some vindictive ghosts and Dani) was able to track down and interrogate one John Constantine.

Apparently due to several misunderstandings Amity had been marked no entry to any JL member but JL dark, (which fair, Valerie also did not wish to deal with a possessed superman) but due to Phantom having been seen throughout history (damn vlad for stealing the infamap) Phantom had been mistaken for an accident protecter spirit.

Which for anyone versed in magic, you don't mess with that uninvited. It would be like walking into the home of a God and telling them to thier face, "I don't think your good/strong enough to protect your home, move and let me do it", which is a really fast way to get killed. You don't enter there unless you are invited by the spirit or a follower of the spirit on their request. Most humans don't understand that, so while the calles were listed and JLD was put on alert, unless danny called himself, they would not enter.

After hashing out that that Phantom was not in fact an ancient, and that yes kids who had called them were followers asking on his request , a very panicked JLD meeting was called with guest Red Huntress acting as a mediator for what needed to be done.

Working with the JDL the Anti-ecto laws were destroyed in just under a year and a half and the Red Huntress being given an offical spot on JLD as a ghost expert/excorsit learning under both Zatanna and Constantine. (Much to the amusement of most of team Phantom and the begrudging acceptance of Sam)

For her civilian life, Valerie still works with Sam as her head of security. They are pretty much best friends but they fight like cats and dogs about everything (to them it is friendly bickering with a limial edge, to others these two look like they are about to throw down). No one understands how Sam has not fired her or why she has not quit, but they are almost infamous for both their "fights" and for being an absolutely terrifying team to fight against. Lex learned the hard way not to interrupt one of their fights.

You may be wondering how this becomes a known problem. In true Danny luck he has run into a bunch of different bats as civilians.

damian volunteers at the same animal shelter and is put with him every time due to danny finding his "fighting spirit" cute instead of intimidating. Damian has an odd respect for "Nightingale", and will sometimes ask for his opinion on matters. "I don't need advise, I just wish to see it from a different perspective"

Tim (under the name Alvin) ran into him at the park when he was having a bad day and somehow wound up talking with Danny because "sometimes it helps to talk to someone who doesn't know you, gives you a non-biased opinion."

Danny lives in crime ally. It's cheap and he feels at home with all the gun shots. Red hood is worried AF about the really nice and helpful guy who gives snack to his street kids and takes the working girls out on "dates" genuinely treating them like queens. The resonce "oh my parents weapons used to "mis-fire" all the time when I was a kid" was not what he was expecting to hear after noticing how calm he was after a gun fight broke out on his block.

Eventually, the bats realize that the person each of them have mentioned is the same guy, panic thinking that he is actually someone sent by an enemy, only to find out from. Oracle that no technically THEY are the ones stalking him because he was there long before they started showing up and they kept going back.

The bats settle only to panic again when oracle revealed that when double checking he background that he seems to be a run away from his crazy villan parents who are still calling him despite him not answering for three years and changing his name to get away from them. (danny keeps reminding his dad to use the "phantom network"to make calls. He keeps forgetting.)

There are multiple signs that her rival Pharoah seems to be stalking the guy all across his very limited social media, and after digging more she is pretty sure her guess on him being the CEO of FRAIR Inc. Tucker Foley Is true. More horrifying based off the very old social media that she found, Danny used to be very close friends with both Tucker and the ruthless Sam Manson who has been slowly causing both Lex Luther and Superman a media shit storm like never seen before.

After talking with some of their old classmates, it was confirmed that both of them were VERY possessive of Danny before he ran away.

Even more concerning, it seems the rumors of him having a very passionate fling with the red Huntress were true. Nightwing (because for some unexplained reason Red Huntress has serious onesided beef with the origanal members of the JL) had almost lost his head when he tried to casually bring it into conversation with her.

Saying about how if they so much as sniffed around Danny as thier hero "fursonas" she would personally see to it that the Wayne's suffered a long list of unfortunate incidents. She had left Danny to keep him safe and had enough trouble watching the "other four" that she didn't need and bats sticking thier noses where they didn't belong and dragging him back into the crazy.

Dick had come home shaken and with a new perspective and respect of the level of commitment Red Huntress had in defending her old flame. Like getting a job just to keep an eye on his other crazy exs and parents. Commitment. And maybe a bit obsessed holy shit, he thought the bats were bad.

The only safe one seems to be his sister, who left a year before he did, making daily phone calls and messages trying to convince he beloved little brother to get away from that crazy town and come to stay with her. She seemed to be the only one who Danny still talked to. (Ecto can make emotions more volatile, and as a therapist, jazz wanted to keep as many outside factors far away from her patients, meaning she still can't charge her phantom phone, its normal phone calls or nothing).

Danny is obviously to all of this 😀.

I may add small snips to this as it was a way to tie small scenes together. But yah. Again sorry for mistakes I wrote these on my phone! And fever is still a thing...

As always feel free to borrow/add on to this! Love to see where stories go, just tag me if you start a new post so I can read it please!!!

Tim was used to strange things happening. He was a vigilante who lived in Gotham. Life commonly through you curve balls and you just had to roll with it. Like kidnappings.

Tim was unfortunately used to kidnappings. As both Red Robin (routes occasionally got lucky)and CEO Timothy Drake-Wayne. (Independently wealthy and had a pretty hefty inheritance from both his families)

It's so common in fact that Tim (his siblings too but they deny it) have set up a ranking system. 1-5 stars. The ranking of the current kidnapping is still in progress.

After his heart to heart with Damian, they had been trying to spend at least one afternoon a week together, Jason heard about it and decided that he would cook lunch on this day and they would all do thier best to try and be as Jason puts it "a little less stabby and a little more happy".

Upside. All three of them had been kidnapped during the grocery run for their "no stabby lunch". So tim knew he did not need to deal with teasing from at least two of his siblings for being kidnapped. (Again)

Down side. For what ever dumb reason thier kiddnappers decided to use a live feed video of them to list thier demands. So with the video constantly watching them breaking out by themselves was not and option.

(Tim was doing his best to keep the boredom from showing but there was only so long he could keep the "Oh no I've been kidnapped" Look on his face and watching his brothers play Morse code I spy across the room without him was pushing it)

Both Bruce and Dick were off world helping the JL. Cass was in Hong Kong this month, and Duke was out of Gotham on a school trip. They were gonna be here a while.

Upside. Clearly, being able to kidnap all 3 of them was pure dumb luck because the goons that were holding them were not very good. (Honestly, their knot tying sucked and they left damian and jason back to back in a way it would be really easy for them to untie each other) Tim was pretty confident they were safe.

Downside. They were so bad at this. Tim had spent the last 23 minutes and 47 seconds (he counted) listening to goons A and B arguing with goons C and D about how "they couldn't have kidnapped Tim Drake because THEY kidnapped Tim Drake, bla bla bla. Tim only hoped whichever poor guy they grabbed off the street managed to get away.

Ten minutes and twelve seconds later (he was still counting), he winced as goons C and D dragged another guy into the room with them, a bag covering his head. (At least he looked to be the same size as him? No bad Tim, no ranking the kidnappers anymore, they have a civilian)

Goons C and D tied the guy to the chair beside Tim, pulled off the bag, before imitately leaving the room to continue arguing with Goons A and B. Well then....

Upside. Tim was no longer bored.

Downside. Based on the fact that he could be looking into a mirror instead of at another person, Tim was pretty sure he just got added to the list of heroes who have been cloned.

He was really hoping this one was nice and was not going to try to kill him.

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Danny loved his family. He really, really did. But there were days that he was very glad that he was adopted because his family was bat shit crazy. (Pun completely intended, they were in gotham)

Things had been good this year. Really good. At the end of his sophomore year Danielle (who has asked to be called Ellie) had come back to Amity for help. She had started destabilizing again and no matter what they tried they could not seem to find a cure. Frostbite had figured out that it was her human half that was unstable and stated he did not have the ability to help her on his own.

This pushed Danny into doing what he had been pushing off since the reality gauntlet. He told his parents he was Phantom. With Jazz's help, they managed to get thier parents to promise to leave all ghost hunting equipment in the lab and have a long over due family talk.

Danny spared no details. The good, the bad, and the akward. There were lots of tears and apologies on both ends, his parents were horrified that they had been hunting thier son and danny feeling bad about lying after they had accepted him the first time.(Jazz was having a feild day finally getting her family to "talk it all out")

They had eventually calmed down, only to start freaking out again when he explained Ellie was basically dying and he needed their help. (His mom had made him swear to explain how exactly he had a clone later)

Between the Fentons and Frostbite, they had managed to use a mix of ghost core adoption and human science, they had managed to finally get Ellie's core and body to fully stabilize.

The Fentons had returned home with a new daughter only to find Clockwork floating in the living room. After keeping the thier parents from attacking the ghost of time (fucker just floated there smiling) Danny asked him what he was there for.

Apparently, Clockwork had been working with Dan on his anger and helping him settle his core. (The mixing of vlads' core with Danny's had caused a lot of damage, and with both of them having just lost part of their obsession, it drove him mad.)

Now that he was settled (and re-connected to the time stream) Clockwork asked Danny if he would be willing to ghost adopt Dan similar to how he did Ellie, and help him build a home with the family he had lost.

Danny was hesitant at first but after clockwork confirmed that Dan would not hurt anyone in the family Danny agreed.

Now the Fentons had two sons and two daughters. (Dan's human form was twenty having reverted a few years when he rejoined this time stream). The Fenton parents were ecstatic. They had always wanted more children, but after Danny had not been able to have any. (They did not qualify for adoption due to thier occupation)

Like he said, things were good! Then apparently, his parents decided to lose the last of their sanity. A vacation in GOTHAM!

Who looks at Gotham, the most crime-ridden city in America, and thinks "ahh yes, this looks like a good spot to relax." Apparently, his parents. They would not even give him a straight answer about why they wanted to go there.

The best any of them had gotten was that apparently right before Danny was born, they had lived thier doing work for some rich family. After they had Danny and they had the money they needed to start Fentonworks, they moved to Amity. They wanted to "reconnect with where they started" or something like that.

Dispite Danny complaining that someone was going to get mugged or kidnapped (Fenton luck was just like that) as soon as the summer hit all (now six) Fentons found themselves in Gotham.

Danny told them. he TOLD them someone was going to get kidnapped! He just didn't think it was gonna be him. Objectively, he knew as second smallest he looked like the easiest to take. (appearance wise, the easiest would be Ellie, but with her habit of hanging off Dan like a monkey, she didn't count)

He hadn't even been alone for ten minutes!!!!Jazz and his parents had wanted to go look at the house they used to live in,and agreed to meet the remain three fenton kids at a nice cafe near "Crime Ally".

Halfway there,Ellie had practically dragged Dan into a retro games shop the second she saw it. Danny smirked at Dan's scowling face as his brother/son/kindaclone missed in his attempt to drag him along.

Now that he was in the back of a car with a bag over his head, Danny might regret that move just a bit. Ellie was never gonna let him getting kidnapped by normal humans down.

They were not even competent bad guys! Danny spent 23 minutes and 47 seconds (Jazz said counting helps calm him) of a very, very long car ride listening to the human versions of Vald's vultures argue about how he was someone named "Tim Drake". Yah, he was ghosting these losers the second they left him alone.

If the other goons were as bad as these ones, Danny was pretty sure he had nothing to worry about.

Now tied to a chair with the bag gone. Danny would like to amend his statement. Danny did not have a problem. But if the doppelganger beside him turns out to be another clone, Vlad is going to have one.

Part 1 is done for now! Sorry for the cliffhanger, but this was getting really long. I am working on part 2 however i am also planning the last of my wedding in about a month and trying not to turn into a bridezilla.... yah... might be a bit XD

finally the tag cult. @seraphinedemort @avelnfear @xye-chan @leftguard66 @emeraldcorpral @skulld3mort-1fan @blankliferain @crocogatorjaws @wanderer-of-worlds @stargirl1331 @emergentpanda-blog and finally @wolfjackle yes you amazing tag gremlin you. they think the other is a clone XD i see you in hiding in the tags... XD

You are not worth my nightmares.

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The Joker stared at the boy tied up to the chair in front of him. Anger and disbelief painting his face. This wasn't funny. The boy looked like he was sitting in a boring class instead of being threatened on live stream by the Joker.

Where was the fear? The panic? Anger?! Even a brave face would do! There's no joke killing someone who doesn't care. No fun when you don't get a reaction. He didn't even flinch when he shot him in the leg! He was the Joker! Even Joker venom didn't feel funny right now, knowing that it was all a physical reaction. Why won't he react!!!

Joker had been on a roll, he had managed to catch Wayne's newest ward. Sweet little Danny, the media's current mystery darling. Poor thing was skitish, scared of the shadows. Normally, when the waynes got a new kid, there were a few who didn't get along. But this one. This one was the favorite. The others wrapped around him like a noose. Choking any attempt the media made to get closer to him.

He had given the Bats the slip, was in a new warehouse he had never used. Prepped better than ever before. This, this would be his best yet. The boy was tied to a chair in full view of the camera bag over his head,tense.

Joker had started the stream before ripping off the bag, excitedly awaiting the panic when the boy noticed him. But he didn't get it.

Danny had blinked twice and looked briefly around the warehouse before settling on the Joker. There was a brief second of confusion before the boys face melted into indifference as he scoffed. "Oh, it just you."

Any and all plans Joker had set up blanked from his mind.

It's just you.

He had said it like the Joker was a mild inconvenience, a pothole in the ground he didn't want to waste energy stepping over.

Rage clouded Jokers mind, any joke forgotten. How dare he be disregarded. He was the Joker. Everyone feared him. Everyone! Batman and his birds might try to pretend they don't, but he saw how they kept the younger ones away. How they focused on him when there was a breakout. He was the center. HE was the top.

If this brat didn't have the brains to give him the fearful respect he deserved, he would teach him, just like the rest.

He started with verbal threats. Trying to get a rise out of him. Joker could kill the kid easy, but that wouldn't be fun. Wouldn't be satisfying. It would ruin the joke.(It was like dealing with a less fun batman. He wouldn't give up the joke. If he killed him now he would spend the rest of his life knowing he lost.)

Every time he spat a threat or gave a number of kills, the kid would shrug it off with mocking congratulations before comparing him to common criminals or belittling his achievements by comparing them to bigger massacres. Joker could almost admire the cold, uncaring tone he took when talking about it, if it wasn't being used to make fun of him.

He wasn't some common criminal. People called him death walking. He was the nightmare that made laugher something to fear!

He shot the kid in the leg, and the only thing the kid did was sigh before giving a delayed "ow." The Joker paced in front of the infuriating child, trying to think of anything to get a reaction that didn't involve killing the kid.

"Hey" Danny called as he passed for the third time. "If your not going to kill me, can you let me go? I have a test I need to study for and I don't want to waste my night listening to another generic villan speech."

"STOP MOCKING ME,I AM THE PRINCE OF CRIME!" Joker yelled, stalking up to the boy. "I am the nightmare that keeps people up at night! I am the one that will go down in history as gothams greatest villan!!

"You are a joke."The boy replied, not bothered in the slightest about the mad man yelling in his face. "And that is all you are ever going to be."

Danny slowly tilted his head to the side, speaking slowly like he was talking to a child.

"You think when you're dead, you're going to be remembered for your schemes? Your cringy flair? You have no goal, no purpose. You have no story for history books to write about. All you do is run around Gotham killing, thinking that because the number is high prople will remember you. But they won't."

A mocking smile pulled across the boys face, eyes still dead, still staring at him.

"It's human nature, you know. To stare at a car crash. They know it's going to be horrible and gruesome, but they can't look away. People watch and scream, talking nonstop when it happens. But when it's done. People turn away.

They don't want to think about it. They will talk about "those poor people, I feel sorry for their families," but the crash itself. They never talk about it. If it's really bad, people will hold a memorial every year to remember the loss. But that what it's for. the victims. People come to remember the people lost, not the crash, maybe its mentioned, but that's all it is. A mention. An afterthought of an unfortunate event that no one wants to think about. Just like you will be."

Joker jolted as the kid slowly stood up.

When did he get free? Were his eyes green before? Was he always taller than him?

"When I look at you, I don't see a prince. I see a sad little man who is screaming for someone to kill him, but too much of a coward to do it himself, so he runs around making it everyone else's problem".

Joker felt his back hit the wall, as he stared into glowing green eyes.

When did he start backing up? Why couldn't he look away? He teeth looked too sharp.

"No Mr.Napier, when you finally kick the bucket, Gotham is going to celebrate. They will talk about how glad they are that you are gone. How someone really should have done it sooner. How sad it was that your insanity protected you from what you deserved.

Maybe they make a day of it, once a year. It will be a memorial, it always is. It's poor taste to celebrate someone's death yearly, no matter how depraved. It will be a day of mourning, for all the people lost, and you. No one will find you worth remembering."

Danny's face was smiling now, cheerful in a way that didn't match his eyes. Voice detached like he was discussing the weather instead of Joker enviable demise.

"History won't write about you. At most, you will be a mention of what not to be, a foot note at the bottom of a page. Gotham won't remember you. they won't think of you when they remember the lost. They won't talk about you, like you were something great. you'll be the monster under the bed that parents tell their kids isn't real. The buttend of a bad joke no one wants to tell."

Danny's voice was quite, like he was whispering a secret.

"It's almost funny how obsessed you are with making sure the living remebers you. You seem to have forgotten the dead. Death will not be peaceful Mr.Napier. Every deed you have done, every person you've killed. When you're finally gone from this world, the living will eventually forget. But the dead? The dead remember. They always remember, and we are waiting for our pound of flesh."

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...... I'm not sure when or why I wrote this, but if you clicked read and made it this far, I hope you found some of it entertaining????

This AU ignores the major DC timelines like emperor Joker or injustice BTW. I know the Joker does a lot of awful shit but compared to some of the stuff danny has fought, he is just? A man? A sick and twisted man, but he is still a squishy human.

When Danny first starts out he is run ragged. He passes out all the time and can't keep up, but as he keeps going, this goes away. Even when the pressure builds and he is fighting stronger ghosts, he does not often get really tired. but he should.

He does not have a lot of help. Yes, Sam and Tucker are great, but his routes attack at all hours, and they literally get into this living realm via his basement. (Not to mention his parents also tend to catch up after he is done catching the ghost)

He falls asleep in class some times but that was early on in his heroing and honestly school can be so boring.

After a while he finds that even though he didnt sleep last night he doesn't feel anymore tired then he did before the accident. He missed breakfast? There was this really stressful test first period, and he is feeling oddly full?

When he fights big names and has to push way farther then normal (undergrowth, Vortex, etc.) Well the next fight seems really easy after that.

No one really notices this is a thing until later. They just assume he has gotten used to it. Until he is no longer burning that much energy.

Like after he becomes ghost king, he only fights a few ghost instead of a bunch, and he graduated,so he no longer has that stay up untill 5 after ghost fights to finish home work.

He suddenly is never tired?? At all. Like he has not slept in almost a month th and is freaking out.

After talking with frostbite they discover that now that life has settled he needs to make sure he is not getting too much energy instead of not having enough.

If he ate a big breakfast that morning? Yeah, he is so not sleeping tonight.

He got a full 8 hours last night. He makes sure not to eat anything for like the next two days.

He was just in a very stressful situation (for others not him). He's probably gonna skip the next few meals if he wants to sleep.

He had sleep, food and emotions? Ancients bless the poor souls who meet energizer bunny danny. They are never the same.

This can be as subtle or as crazy as you want. (Danny normally chooses to not sleep unless he is super stressed, because no one needs to know he stayed up all hours but people tend to notice if you never eat on any of your breaks/lunch)

I love when it is "I need to not eat or sleep for a bit to pretend I am normal human "danny vs. "Oh my God, he never sleeps and barely eats, i need to help this child before he keels over" non Amity Park person.

So, Cat danny is wandering around Gotham and as his wonderful luck always goes winds up getting caught in a rouge attack.

Down side stuff is on fire. Up side this world has HEROS and he was very heroically swept off his feet (paws?) And placed carefully in a safe spot (with a head scratch) before the cool looking hero in red and black lept back down to fight the group of guys dressed as evil clowns? (Meh. Danny cant judge he fought an evil ring master once.)

Danny watches the fight. One of the clown guys had called him Red Robin? (Yum.) But now Danny is curious ok? In his world he had been the only superhero but after following this guy around for a bit, he has run in to at least two more.

He follows Red until he hears him say that he was going to turn in for the night and decides he might as well say thanks for the save.

Danny creaps out into the light before giving a loud meow. Red turns quickly, falling into a battle stance before noticing danny is, well...a cat.

Red blinks at him before giving a smile and slowly approaching and offering up his hand for danny to sniff. (Ahh kevlar) Danny butts his head against Red's hand before letting out a loud purr as the wonderful head scratching begins again.

After a few minutes Red let's out a sign before PUSHING HIS COWL BACK WHAT IS HE THINKING?!?!? (Honstly the whole bat fam is bad for taking off masks /cowls/helmet and using names while on patrol if they think they are alone in the comics)

Danny has three thoughts almost simultaneously.

1. Dude! Secret identity!! What if he was a bad person shape-shifting into a cat?!?!? You are lucky that he is a retired hero!

2. Holy crap this guy is young! He looks only a few years older than Danny was when he started.

3. He looks sad and tired. (Tim has just beaten Ra's in the red robin comics, and Bruce is still being rescued, Tim is still in his angsty teen stage)

Maybe Tim talks with Danny for a bit, maybe Danny is just reminded how hard it was for him as a young hero. Either way, danny looks at this kickass young hero and goes: Hmmm, mine now.

He follows him to the nest, sits nice outside when tim tells him that he can't stay here, waits till the door closes before walking out of the view of the camera outside and walking invisible and intangible through the wall In to the house. (He wants to make sure the kid gets to bed ok)

Only to find that the kid maybe a kick ass vigilante but he is also a human disaster who sucks at taking care of himself.

There is take-out containers all over the counter. Way too many empty cans of energy drinks. And Red may have taken a shower and changed but he is on his computer at 4am and Danny saw the calander that said he has a meeting at 8am!!

Sleep is needed for growing children! Especially fully human children!!!

So Danny goes right up behind a very tired Tim (this boy has been up way longer then Danny thinks) and YOWLS. Tim not expecting this as he does not own a cat, startls so badly he falls off his chair. (Oops)

Tim and Danny stare at each other for a moment before Tim ask very quiet bewildered voice "how did you get In here?!?!?"

Tim puts Danny back outside so he can keep works only to find him back inside five minutes later. Everytime he sits down at the computer he yowls (Tim's headach does not need that thanks). Tim tries to put him out side again, Danny does not let him catch him this time.

A half hour later, Tim is still trying to catch this random cat, and Danny is till trying to lead the tired child to bed.

It ends with Danny on Tim's bed kneeding the covers, Tim leaps at him to catch him (miss) and winds up face first on his bed with a very warm purring cat on his back.

Tim lays his head down in frustration and bam. Tired boy is now sleeping boy. Danny is very proud of himself.

After almost two weeks of trying to keep this cat out of his house and failing, tim admits defeat and concludes he is now a cat dad. (Danny laughs to himself about this because clearly he is the parent in this relationship)

As a last note in this AU cat Danny is all black cat with very blue eyes, however he has discovered that he can turn into cat version of his ghost form as a white cat with glowing green eyes... he does not do this often because it may be a cat. But it is definitely not a house cat 😇.

His human half looks frail. He walks with a cane(he doesn't need it) he hunches over and takes his time walking across the street.

(he never had the best posture and honestly he spent his whole life rushing around he is going to take his time, thank you)

He is just as strong and and powerful as he was in his youth (gotta love ghost powers), but he doesn't look it.

He just he looks like a stereotypical sweet grampa that sits on park bench feeding pidgons and tells you about "back in my day". He ACTS like it too.

Danny a gremlin. He did not grow out of that. He knows that he looks like he should be in a care home, and he PLAYS IT UP!

He could change his form to match his phantom side, but it feels wrong when he looks younger and people young enough to be his GRANDCHILDREN start to flirt with him. Don't get him started on being a child. It is so patronizing.

But when you look old you can do both. Most of the time, he is nice Papi Danny. But if he needs to, he can become angry, retired veteran hero Danny real quick.

His favorite running joke is that he can be completely honest and no one belives him.

He can sit down with beside someone and just start babbling. Some people will either look at him weird and/or leave, but most people will humor him a bit. (He is a poor old man who's nonexistent children don't visit. Dani decided to officially become his sister a long while ago)

He tells them all about his adventures as a vigilante ghost hero, and no body believes it. (Very few people know ghost are real)

They either listen to all the "cool hero stories" (mostly little kids) or slowly start to look like they think he should be in a mental facility while trying to smile and nod along. (Danny likes to add a "wistful, but not all there" look to his face with people like this. It adds to the effect 🙂.)

Every so often, Danny will move places with some excuse or another to hide that he is infact technically immortal. (Are you immortal if you are already half dead?l

His newest city is Gotham. Crime Ally to be exact.

-he teaches the street kids how to pick locks and other things he probably shouldn't. (Kids need mischief, it's good for them 😀)

-He gives water and treats to anyone he thinks needs some.

-He brings the homeless food so he can "have someone to talk with while he eats its lonely at home". (The ghosts keep giving him the human money they have collected over the years as "tribute" to the new king. What are they gonna do with it? He has enough already? Like he inherited all the fenton works stuff too?)

-he helps in the soup kitchens and does volunteer work (it helps calm his obsession)

-if you look like you need an ear to talk to or some advice? Well, it's not like he has anywhere to be. Want to talk about it?

-He becomes something like the neighborhood grandpa (you can call me Papi if you want to kid.)

-He call EVERYONE kid.

The best part though is that he could not give two fucks about the Bats or the rogues.

-a villan attacks? Meh. What are they gonna do? Kill him? He either doesn't move at all or moves really slow to get away (kids today always in a rush)

- someone to mug him? "Are you doing OK, Sonny? I have a few extra dollars at home if you need them. " (Oddly enough, most muggers got kinda freaked out by the offer? Did no one offer a helping had these days?)

- he as unintentionally started to unionize the goons. (He didn't know they were goons just that they did not get treated right at thier job. Sam's many rants rubbed off on him.) people keep coming to him for information on this.

-He has sat and talked with poison ivy (she reminds him of Sam). Ivy was confused at this random guy sitting in her park, but he was a good listener and asked questions about her plants.

-He has gotten into a riddle/pun battle with riddler. (Riddler was robbing a store danny was in and did not expect someone to ask HIM a riddle, but he was not going to lose.)

-He has been invited to play poker with the ivy,cat,and harley every second Tuesday.

-He has told off batman for speeding around Gotham in the batmobile. ( he did not care if there was a bank robbery, you drive a black car at night. What if you hit someone?!)

-He has flagged down every robin/batgirl past or present down frantically, solely to give them a kid's snack for the road before patting their head and walking away. (They start eating them after they confirmed they were not tampered with. Fruit snack are good!)

-He has snuck Red Robin coffee, after hearing him complain that he got cut off again. (Coffee addicts unite!)

-Batman has never been able to track him down. As soon as he gets close, Danny literally ghosts him. (This makes him very paranoid because he can't find any info on "Danny Nightingale," but his family keeps running into him.)

-The Bat kids have started coming to him when they are mad with Batman because he give them snacks and good advice on how to get back at him via pranks.

Basically I love old Danny who has reached the "let's see what happens" stage in life and lives to be the enabler of chaos down the street.

Gotham was no stranger to quirky people and weird coping habits. Especially on the less legal side of things.

(So long as you did your job, what you had to do to get it done is your own business)

Most people learn to see, shrug, and move the hell on. The thing was the Fentons weren't from Gotham. (Make no mistake they were THEIRS now. They had claimed them and apparently even the fucking Joker wasn't going to change that)

The Fentons were from Amity. It was "a nice place to live". A little town in Illinois that had cringy ghost themed attractions and a near negative crime rate.

How in the hell did a family as nice as the Fentons from a town as peaceful as Amity look at Gotham and go "This seems good, I'm gonna live here now".

They had brushed off the quirks as "non-Gotham" behavior, thanked what ever half-baked deity tricked them into coming here, and did their best to look after the small bit of peace the family and store brought with them.

After the feral incident the regulars at Dead End Cafe had started to keep a little closer tabs on the little "quirks" the family had.

It was ... jarring honesty. Many of them simultaneously felt closer to them knowing more about them (how well they really fit into Gotham's underbelly) and farther away seeing all the things they missed.

They were still the funny, overly caring family that had barreled their way through Crime Ally's walls a year and a half ago. They didn't even hide the odd things they did. If you asked and they were willing to answer, they did it truthfully. (This actually led to more questions than answers)

People had just... never paid attention to it. but now, now they couldn't un-see it.

 A few groups began to compile list of the facts they knew. (They were curious, how did they fit in so well, why? Did their family need to hide somewhere no one would look? Did they need help?)

Tucker was built like a tank. He moved like someone who had a history of trained fighting despite saying he never did sports or martial arts.

He was a wiz with any kind of tech. Helped anyone with issues for free, often leaving it better then when they first got it.

He was designing a video game apparently. Many of them were exception a new shooter but were surprised when he said it was a horror RPG based in Ancient Egypt. Apparently, he had old family roots there.

(They looked the other way when his Hieroglyph tattoos seemed to move, or the way the sand that was always there followed him.)

Bill (one of Penguin’s) had seen him throw a handful of darts one day and hit the bullseye with all of them. Bill asked Tucker where he learned. Tucker had laughed before replying " we found out when Sam got kidnapped once. Apparently, I have great aim with just about just anything thrown or shot. If I had hit my growth spurt before senior, I may have had a chance on a school team.

Bill had followed up by asking about who kidnapped Sam and if they should keep an eye out. The answer was no, because, he quotes "honestly by the time Danny and I got there to help, she had already staged a revolt with the guy's sister, and they over threw him together". (Sam then helped her take over the "family business"? Bill shook his head. Honestly, good on her.)

Sam was honestly the most intimidating of the Fentons. While the respect/fear for Ma Fenton had definitely gone up. Sam was still more likely to get into a fight.

5'11" before adding the heeled combat boots Sam struck a pretty intimidating figure. (The fact that she had sent the three guys who tried to mug her to the hospital definitely added to this.)

Despite her looks, she always seemed to have a group of children she was teaching. If Tucker was the go-to for technical and planning advice, Sam was the one for all things green and health related.

She was constantly teaching the children about what plants could be used for aches and pains and which were easiest to grow.

As time went on, she began to bring back bundles of herbs to show how to make "special brews". (There were few people that had enough trust to get a Gothamite to try a "homemade remedy", but after the first few said they did actually feel better it became pretty common to order a "special brew" in the cold season)

It had been a shock when after a lesson, someone had asked "why they couldn't go in the back of the green house" and "why do you draw funny drawings on your pots?".

"The plants in the back are highly poisonous". Sam had replied. Face completely serious. "I am immune, you are not. Please do not go back there without me". She picked up her stuff before adding "the symbols keep bad things away". She then left to the kitchen leaving a group of wide-eyed children (and listening adults) in her wake.

(It was later confirmed that the symbols were actually wards against evil intent, a few of them having worked with magic users in the past. Everyone pointedly ignored how the plants on the walls would occasionally turn to face Sam like the sun.)

Ellie was the least changed. She was still the snarky, happy child that they had come to know and love. The only thing was the comments.

Originally, when they found something odd, they would ask Ellie. It was more for fun then anything. Ask a random question, get a made-up kid's answer. After the incident they were no longer sure how "made-up" some of the answers were.

Like the pin board.

It was a cute thing at first. A little pin board near the door that had "Square up or square down" along the top.

There was an assortment of square pins below it with random words (in sparkly gel pen) that made a list.  For the longest time, no one could figure out what they meant. The pins on the board stayed the same, changing order about once a week.

Whenever a word went to the top, a second pin would be added beside it with the word "souped" on it. (Sometimes, two or three words would have this, always at the top)

This board remained a Fenton mystery until shortly after the incident. When a new square sitting right at the top in glittery green read "Joker". (The board now seemed a lot less cute, knowing that the pins like "Boxy" and "Skulker" were not words but names)

After the third time Jokers name had been moved to the top (and that was a nightmare on its own) Jason Peters (stinky man according to Ellie) had bravely (stupidly) asked her why Joker never got the "souped" pin when he moved up.

Ellie had taken a look at the board before saying, "He still has all his bones." Jason (and a good everyone else around them) had stared at the girl for a moment. "Could you explain that one to me, please Bity?" Jason asked, not really sounding like he wanted an answer.

Ellie had huff before putting down her drawing and facing the man. "He has all him bones," she repeated. "The other ones lost their bones, so Mama made them soup." The man looked like he regretted life as the kid continued. "He can't be soup. You need to give your bones to be soup." Ellie held Jason's gaze until he nodded to her. The kid took that as he understood before going back to her coloring. (No one had the guts to ask the older Fentons for clarification)

Ma Fenton was definitely the hardest to readjust to. He was still sweet, still gave off a calm feeling, still made them good food. (He knew their favorites. he smiled at them like people.)

It was mostly little things. Like how he didn't have trouble picking up things that really should be too heavy. How He moved without making sound. He always knew your name. (Even if you don't remember giving it)

 The hardest part was trying to figure out what set him off. No one wanted to pick a fight with Ma. It felt wrong to attack someone so nice to them. (He was terrifying when mad.)

 Danny just seemed to flip on a dime. The second he knew Joker (or any others on the board) was within a few blocks of Dead End. (And he always knew.)

He would suddenly tense, get a smile on this face that didn't look quite right (too wide, too cold). He would excuse himself, call Tucker or Sam to take over, before grabbing a kitchen utensil (it was mostly the pan, but sometimes a rolling pin, it had only been a steak knife once.) Before moving the Joker pin to the top of the board on the way out the door before doing a dead sprint in a random direction.

No one had figured out how he always knew where the Joker was, but batman should take notes.

They had been walking on eggshells for a bit before Alvin Peter (Jason's younger brother) had asked Tucker why Danny reacted so bad to the Joker.

The guy apparently wanted to meet Ma after seeing him throw down with Joker in the bank. It had been the first Ma vs. Joker fight to happen off Fenton territory and the only one ever caught on film.

Red Hood and Red Robin had been there, but after the SHRIEK™ had been heard, Red Hood had all but hauled Red Robin out of the way and waited till it was over. (It had been the same level of feral as the first. Fists and teeth before Ma had grabbed Red Robin's bo staff and had used it like a bat, then made his escape through the vent.)

Tucker told them they had nothing to worry about.

 "Death leaves a mark, whether you cause it or are just around it, it clings to us." Tucker had said it so nonchalantly, like he had long since come to terms with it. "Fentons know death a bit differently than most. We see it frequently. It stopped bothering us a long time ago. We don't judge. It is part of life, a balance. " Tucker's faces had been uncomfortably blank.

 "Joker has no balance. He should have died a long time ago. He was brought back and now takes more than was his to take." Tucker turned back to Alvin, ignoring the pale faces around him.

"It makes Danny angry. The unbalance. It is very, very hard for a human to reach that level of death. There often isn't anything left of the human by then."

Tucker then pat Alvin on the shoulder, smile coming back like normal. " I can promise you no one who comes here can match the Joker in unbalance. the only way you are making the list is if you ask to be on it like the others."

That conversation had been as unsettling as it was oddly comforting.

As the two-year mark for Dead End Cafe arrived, Crime Ally had once again settled around the Fentons.

They were still quirky, still nice. If they occasionally did things that were a bit intimidating, well, fewer people would want to bother them, right?

Everyone at this point had begrudgingly accepted that there was no stopping Ma Fenton from throwing down with the Joker. (The area that the fights were happening in was slowly expanding past "Fenton territory," bets were being made on where the next ones would be.)

Somehow most of the Bats had not figured out where the Fentons were yet. apparently, video had a hard time picking up Fentons and so far, both Red Hood and Red Robin looked the other way when they heard the SHRIEK™.

It was good. Their small bit of peace was still intact (if a bit more feral), the bat was still chasing circles. (Crime Ally did their best to help with that, as previously stated the Fentons were THEIRS). All in all, things were back to how they used to be.

At least until the Fenton In-laws showed up to visit.

I will probably do the Fentons senior (and jazz) visit and possibly one from Ellie's poi t of view because girl needs more screen time and I want to mess with Jason.

After that it will probably just be so snips of shit the Fentons have pulled In gotham xD

I can't remember who, but someone had asked if danny is Mama and sam is Papa. Who is Tucker? Tucker is dad/daddy. Depends on the day.

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