Plotbunny Containment Zone

He returns one night to his humble apartment, which is known to have vermin, and comes across a rat, which he could easily kill or set loose on the street.

But the rat- it is special. It seems to speak to him. Promises him every little thing he desires- talent, fame, and fortune. Recognition and esteem like he has only ever seen from afar; fine company like the wealthy men and women whose scraps he picks at over the sink.

Put me on your head, the rat says. Put me on your head and think of nothing.

It is strange at first, yes. Strange to feel another take control of his life and live it better than he ever could. To see miraculous things created with his own two hands, to feel his feet move in graceful and fantastic ways with a confidence he has never had.

But the rat delivers as he had promised: he receives promotions, notoriety, admiration. He is noticed. Envied. Every day is a waking dream, rubbing elbows with beautiful women and handsome men and influential personalities who lavish him with praise. It is addictive, this lifestyle- never mind that he is only ever truly conscious of it as a passenger of in own brain.

It is when he has reached heights few can ever conceive, with all that the rat had ever promised- a beautiful wife in a beautiful house with all the world in his palm, in possession of all the wealth and success a man could ever want, that the rat says that it is leaving.

Leaving? The rat cannot leave. Everything he is, the rat has provided.

"I have delivered on our bargain", the rat says. "I have brought to you all that you have ever dreamed. What more could you desire? I must live my own life, now."

The man is furious. He is terrified. He destroys the rat, in all of the ways that a rat can be destroyed, until nothing is left of it but a fine smear of marinara sauce.

He returns to the restaurant the next day moving like the shell of something hollowed-out and brittle. He cooks well- his fingers remember the movements, his eyes recognize the patterns, his mouth knows without his asking what orders to speak and what platitudes make patrons smile pleasantly with their straight white teeth.

He retains the talents of the rat. The charm of the rat. All the worldly pleasures the rat had provided him.

Still, it seems, he is little more than a vessel for the talents of the rat.

But the rat is gone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Danny: Why is Lady Pandora here?

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

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

Danny: Cause he's Batman. Duh.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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You’re doing amazing sweeties!!

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

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

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

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

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

Clark: Why did you hide it from us?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jason: contingencies 427g and 315b

Tim: !!!!!!!!!

Jason: what are they?

Tim: holy shit

Tim: moving to group chat

Jason swipes over to the batchat group.

Tim: jason just texted

Tim: b’s come back as a ghost

Tim: and he’s adopted again

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oh, yeah, Batman has his own ghost rogues now.

He located the area of the Realms corresponding to Gotham. It is, per all the curses, a complete shitshow. And of course it has rogues.

Batman's response? "I shall establish my lair here."

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Tim summons Danny, Danny appears in his Infinite Realms High Prince gear, taking care to be ever so slightly eldritch in case it's the GIW trying to summon him again.

Tim offers his soul for Danny to bring Jason Todd back to life.

Danny...isn't a demon, and has no ability to bring someone back. He does, however, recognize the half formed ghost floating behind Tim and screaming at Danny to fuck off as a baby halfa. More than likely, the soul got split from the body, and lost.

So he leans over, taps the scared and angry ghost-kid on the forehead to give him an ecto-boost (enough so that he'll have the energy to detach himself from the other kid and instinctively be drawn to his own body again), and pretends to make a deal.

Tim has to summon him and talk to him about his life once a week for three years. If after those three years Danny feel that the information provided is not sufficient (in other words if he feels that Tim's living situation still isn't great), Danny will collect Tim.

Three years pass, and Tim's reports are...concerning.

Danny isn't super convinced Tim's living situation isn't not the best.

So, on the dawn of the third year, in front of the entirety of Young Justice as they were having a get-together, Danny tears open a rift and grabs Tim by the cape.

"It is time to uphold your deal," Is all the information Danny gives before he yoinks Tim into the Infinite Realms.

He didn't really have time to explain more, honestly, he was running late for a meeting with the Observants, political education lessons with Ghost Writer, and also he had to prepare for family dinner. Lunch. Linner? Whatever.

He makes quick work of shoving Tim into a room, telling him it's his, and setting Dani loose on him. She's thrilled to be an Aunt and has the energy to match Tim's tenaciousness, she'll be able to keep him out of trouble until Danny can finalize the adoption tomorrow.

1. Tim saw just a flicker of Jason's ghost when Danny gave him that ecto-boost before Jason was pulled back to his body.

2. Jason's body woke up as it does in canon, gets hit by a car and that's when he and his ghost get separated, so his body does wander around catatonic for a while and get picked up but Talia and eventually given a pit bath. His soul gets pulled back into his body while Jason is in the pit.

2a.Unfortunately, a bit of the pit has already made itself at home in the empty vessel, and Jason isn't strong enough to force it out. His own soul jumps in and fills the rest of the space; but as much of the pit as has climbed in him, that's how much of his soul is stuck outside of him. The bit stuck outside of him includes a couple core traits, most of his ghost powers, and all of his ghost memories, as well as a couple other critical memories from Before.

3. Tim is not taken in front of Young Justice. Tim is taken while a Pit-controlled Jason is trying to beat the shit out of him in Titan's Tower.

4. The presence of the King cows the Pit into enough submission for the rest of Jason's soul to force it out. The sudden loss of the Pit Rage plus the wave of soul settling and new memories prevents Jason from acting before Tim is gone and the portal closed. Now he's about to go on a whole new kind of rampage to get his stupid self-sacrificing little brother back.

5. Tim isn't foolish enough to spill all the secrets he knows in some futile hope to save himself. He is very careful about what kind of information he gives, even if it means the Demon will come to collect sooner.

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Tim doesn't know why the Demon wants 3 years of weekly check ins before it claims his soul. Nor what information would be sufficient to stave off that eventual collection date. (Tim has no misconceptions that the Demon won't collect him eventually. He sold his soul to it. Sooner or later that debt will come due, right?)

Maybe some weird supernatural rules thing? Tim read about one Demon case in Constantine's Watchtower reports where the Demon would possess people and cause planes to crash exactly 40 minutes into the flight. And then another that made deals and would come to collect after a decade. So timeframes can be weirdly important to Demons. And maybe this one's important timeframe was 3 years.

Maybe that's just how long it takes the Demon to fulfill it's side of the deal. Tim knows he saw Robin's soul that night at the summoning. Just for a moment, but he was there. Had he been haunting Tim? Irrelevant. Tim knows the Demon did something at that moment; but it's only now, 3 years later, that Tim is seeing the fruits of his deal. Robin is here. Angry, out for Tim's blood for having the audacity to wear his uniform, but alive. It took 3 years, but Jason is alive and he can go home now and be Robin again and that's what matters here.

Also because reality kept glitching around his face.

So for three years, Danny's been preparing; on the human side of things he's been getting registered as a Foster Parent, taking parenting classes, reading parenting books, saving money, getting an apartment with at least three rooms in Gotham so that adopting out Tim won't be too outlandish for CPP, getting recommendations on good child therapists from Jazz, and psyching himself up.

On the ghost side of things; he's been filling out paperwork, preparing an extra room in the castle, arranging for bodyguards for the very human teenager, collecting all sorts of protection amulets and ghost fighting gear for the kid, and convincing the skeleton crew (literal) to wear funny wigs so the teen won't be scared.

So when Tim is finally pulled through the portal, the human side of things isn't ready yet; there needs to be social workers involved, Danny has to prove he's got a viable means of income, Tim has to talk to a bunch of suits, and also he needs to get into contact with those recommended therapists for the kid.

Instead, he takes him to the Zone.

He still has a lot he needs to do, aside from the lessons with Ghostwriter and the meetings with the Observants and preparing for Linner with his family, and drops Tim off in his room full of gadgets and an eagerly awaiting new Aunt.

"No time to explain, running late for meetings, that's your new Aunt. Dani, meet Tim. Tim, meet Dani. Bye."

He'll have a sit down and explain things properly, because there's no way Dani will, once he has the time.

Tim is thinking the worst.

His soul has been collected by the demon, as he's always been expecting, and he was immediately taken to a room with a very large bed.

There are items, various tech, around the room.

He supposes he should count himself lucky that the demon wants him to not be bored.

Then the demon says that the floating girl his age is his Aunt?

And he just leaves?

Wait, is Tim a demon now?

The girl, Aunt Dani as she insists, has enough energy to rival Bart.

Keeping up with her is exhausting but something he can do, thanks to being friends with a speedster.

He learns many things that he's gonna have to talk to the demon, who apparently is not a demon and is in fact an inter-dimensional being hellbent on adopting him, in order to get clarification.

Tim is being forcibly not forcibly adopted. If not by human standards, then by this realms standards.

He is not going to be a bed warmer, and if the rage that Aunt Dani showed indicated anything, he's pretty sure his inter-dimensional Foster Father and family would tear the world to shreds.

The demon (he has got to stop calling him that but it's stuck in his head) has apparently been going all out; taking parenting classes and taking note of things that Tim mentioned in their talks, ending up with a literal list of Tim's likes and dislikes.

Dani isn't sure how Tim's new guardian brought someone back to life, and she's pretty sure he didn't, so Tim's gonna have to ask for some clarification on what exactly happened that night.

The room is his, entirely, and everything in it.

His new guardian has a human form, and a wholeass human identity, and is already trying to figure out how to spin this with CPP to gain official custody on the grounds of criminal neglect.

Injuries are different for this species, as none of them really thought that his injuries from his beatdown were bad until he almost fainted bumping his broken leg onto the bed frame.

The doctors are yetis.

Jason, though.

Jason's pissed.

He's also scared, but he's refusing to dwell on that.

His head is finally full of the memories he'd lost to the Pit.

He remembers getting his by a car, remembers following Batman as a ghost, remembers watching Batman nearly kill some guy for just stealing a sandwich.

He remembers watching some shortstack bounce in after B left, call an ambulance for the guy, and stay with him to make sure he wasn't mugged.

He followed that kid for weeks after that, mentally adopting the little freak, only stopping when the little idiot summoned a fucking demon with enough power to send him flying back to his body in Nanda Parbat. When his little brother sacrificed himself to a goddamn demon.

Jason also realizes what he's wearing, and very hurriedly swaps back from his Robin leotard to his Red Hood gear, finally clear enough in the head to realize that uh. No.

Just no.

Tim was right and pants were the future.

Next, he beelines for Raven's room, already pushing the panic button he'd ripped from Tim's uniform.

He has a plan.

He's going to let Raven know what Tim did, and by the time he's done explaining, B and Dickwing should arrive, and then he'll explain again so that B can go talk to the JLD.

He refuses to let this happen.

This cannot happen.

Soon enough, Raven is waking up the rest of the Titans, and Jason is digging through Tim's room for clues so that Raven can summon the bitchass fucker that kidnapped his brother.

He's not alone in his search either; Superboy got called in by Wonder Girl and Impulse, and they're all digging through Tim's room for clues.

No one is happy with him at the moment, since he was pretty up front about beating the shit out of Tim. He's holding them off by saying it's a Gotham thing, but it's definitely only their concern for Timmy that's preventing them from dogpiling his ass.

Then Superboy notices a lead-lined box.

Jason shoos him out of the room, because he knows Tim and knows for a fact there's probably kyptonite in that thing, and cracks it open. He catches a glimpse of some of the printed papers inside it, slams it shut, and shoves everyone else out of the room.

It takes everything he has not to vomit once he goes through the papers. He's careful to keep them in the box, because he doesn't want Superboy to...know this.

The kid was...researching. Mentally preparing himself for sex work.

Was that the deal?

Was his little brother, right now, at this very moment, getting-?

The door slams open, and Jason is faced with the reality that he's going to have to tell B and Dick something far, far worse that "Tim got kidnapped by a demon".

Bruce and Dick haven’t neglected Tim; it’s just a mixture of Tim’s ingrained resistance to being parented (at this point in the timeline Tim’s dad has only recently died and he’s still fake-uncling it up) and Tim’s desire not to give too much information to the demon (leading to things looking more worrying than they are). Danny has no idea Bruce has any sort of parental role in Tim’s life, let alone that he wants to adopt Tim.

Tim’s not going to want to be parented by the demon and the demon-aunt any more than he is prepared to be parented by Bruce. Probably a lot less, in fact. He’s just too relieved he’s not going to be a sex slave after all to show much resistance yet.

Raven can't find the demon Tim summoned, so she's bringing up other demons to ask around.

The other demons know that wasn't a demon, based on Jason's description, but think watching the humans squirm is funny, so they keep pretending like Danny is a demon and he's absolutely doing the things they think he is.

Constantine, the magic user who would beyond the shadow of a doubt either realize Danny isn't a demon or kick down the doors of Hell and barge in if he didn't, cannot be found. (He's been requested by the High Prince of the Infinite Realms to assist with dealing with the Council of Observants in regards to a potential adoption)

Bruce is, as usual, blaming himself and obsessed with finding the demon hurting Tim. He isn't eating properly or drinking properly and he definitely isn't sleeping, since every time he tries he has nightmares about what's happening to Tim.

Dick is having so many flashbacks and no good times at all.

Danny is so horrified by what Tim thought he was being taken for that he pauses the adoption out of concern that he, in all his dumbassery, may be a trigger for this kid now.

Danny seeing at least one person in Tim's life who really cared for him, enough to go up against what they believe to be a powerful demon; if he wasn't already reconsidering this adoption thing, he certainly is now.

Especially if Danny's been taking classes and reading parenting books that whole time, and getting advise from Jazz.

Wouldn't he have been trying to bond with Tim?

1.) Danny has been trying very hard to connect with Tim and make him feel comfortable in his presence. Unfortunately, Tim has been criminally neglected for most of his life by his parents, so this just makes him *more* uncomfortable. It’s not even Danny coming on too strong, it’s that he’s attempting to turn a feral stray into an indoor lap cat.

2.) Tim, “I play Batman on a daily basis like the devil went down to Georgia,” Drake is, like most abused/neglected kids, Extremely Good at hiding the fact that Danny’s wigging him out. Like, this boy is a paid actor, okay? Specifically paid in less abuse for not upsetting the people in power. If, “Never let them see you sweat (Or Else),” could be coded into DNA, it’d clone into a Survival Mode!Tim.

Basically? Danny is doing his best, but he’s new to this + only seeing the kid once a week for pre-planned check-ins. As a former abused kid? Tim probably did exactly what I would do and spun the truth as thinly as possible to cover his ass. Sure, that causes its own problems, but putting it all in proper context would make something solid enough to hurt you with.

He’s just letting Bruce and Alfred (maybe Jason and Dick as well) wail on him and he spills everything. That he’s not a demon he’s a ghost. That Tim summoned him when he was 18. That he saw this Kid who was clearly neglected who may have even reminded him of Himself. That he spent the last three years taking parenting classes and trying to build a bond with Tim Ancients how did he miss what Tim thought of him. Just everything comes spilling out.

Bruce and Alfred see this man, no kid, he’s only 21, around Dick’s age absolutely break down. This kid they’ve absolutely been beating down on, out of fear for what he might’ve done to Tim.

It’s actually surprisingly easy for Bruce to figure out that this is no evil demon making soul deals but a worried kid trying his best.

Because canonically, canonically, there was a demon running round offering people favours in return for their souls near the start of Tim’s Robin career (Underworld Unleashed, 1995). And that demon offered Batman Jason’s life back, in return for his soul. And Bruce refused. (And this is probably where Tim got the idea in the first place.)

Lots of heroes and villains gave in to his offers; others refused (Joker sold his soul for a box of cigars). So Bruce saw how the heroes who made deals were very quickly corrupted and turned evil, and knows that there’s been no sign of that happening with Tim. And Danny just doesn’t feel like that sinister, horribly and desperately tempting, vibe he got from Neron. So yes, he’s reasonably easy to persuade that Danny is not a demon.

And Tim got the impression that he was going to be taken for sex slavery from some of the things Danny said when he was trying to bond with him and show that he was fond of him, because if you go into that thinking the other person is the worst sort of evil you can make that sort of mistake. Tim was thinking that torture and rape would be better than having his skills and connections and knowledge used to cause suffering and pain to others, so he’s tried to avoid telling Danny anything about Batman and Nightwing and his life as Robin, so the demon doesn’t get any ideas. He was trying to protect them.

And from Jason’s point of view this was classic monkey’s paw. Jason is brought back to life as requested but in the Lazarus Pit without all his memories and vulnerable to manipulation, and returns to torture and aggrieve Tim, who made the wish, and Bruce, for whom it was made. It will take a lot to convince him that it wasn’t on purpose.

Tim’s more ashamed of himself for getting it so wrong than anything else. Bruce has a long talk with him and brings in Jason Blood (Gotham-based demonologist and unwilling host to the demon Etrigan) for extra lessons on Why Selling Your Soul To A Demon Is A Bad Idea.

So yeah Bruce pulls his uno reverse and tries to bring Danny into the family. But things are strained and awkward. Jason doesn’t trust him cause of the seeming monkey’s paw. And Tim…

Well Tim is ashamed of getting it so wrong. And logically he knows now that Danny was never a threat to him, but still it’s hard to do a 180. For years Danny and the looming threat of his deal was hanging over him haunting his every moment. It’s hard to be near him without flinching and he can never really get comfortable around him.

Danny meanwhile sees Tim, the kid he spent 3 years preparing to adopt, constantly flinching around him. He sees how much his presence affects Tim so he pulls away. He keeps a potential line of contact open with Bruce, and he still interacts with Arthur and Diana, but other than that he just leaves.

(Dani might still check in from time to time. Her relationship with Tim is much less complicated as he didn’t even know about his would be aunt until things started settling)

It’s not until Bruce’s ‘death’ that things change. Tim is desperate, he keeps trying to prove Bruce is alive but no one will believe him. And in his desperation he calls out for the one being who helped him with a similar situation in the past.

He wants to settle an argument with Jazz once and for all; are the Fentons more Irish in their ancestry, or are they Danish?

Meanwhile, one of the many, many alarms the Justice League has start going off. Someone's DNA just matched with two registered members.

Wally West and Zatanna Zatara.

Which means a sibling turned in that test.

If Wes looks too closesly, sometimes he sees the world as a cartoon and himself as a nameless background character. And sometimes when he looks, it's a comic instead, himself a still image on a page created by an incomprehensible hand. And sometimes when he looks, there's just words. Words and words and words and maybe the occasional image and so many words on a background of blue. And when Wes looks there, he sees where he came from, and he knows he was not here before. They put him here. They saw a face and They made it his and the left him here without past or future and barely present because he was never even really rea-

Wes Weston makes a point of not thinking too hard about where he came from.

Danny Phantom fights to survive.

Danny fights dirty. he snarls, and he scratches, and he burns, and he bites. he fights like a cornered animal. he will do anything to scare off a predator and stay alive.

even protection is second-hand to survival when the people you're trying to protect also attack you.

danny still hasn't learned that some people don't fight to stay alive.

Dannys vigilante costume from Chapter 27 of Cold Cases and Colder Cores!

Okay so we all know the trope where Ellie has an exploration obsession, right? She leaves Amity Park to explore the world and have new experiences. Well on one of these trips she just so happens to come across The League of Shadows in Nanda Parbat.

A hidden city, carved into the side of a mountain and guarded by ninjas? Oh she HAS to check this place out. She slips right inside without being detected and, after exploring for awhile, she comes across the Lazarus pit and grabs a small sample for Danny. After all, it’s rude to go on a long trip and not even bring back gifts!

She continues exploring, switching between visible and invisible as she ducks behind walls and columns, avoiding the assassains and trying to figure out what’s all going on here.

She comes across an artifact room and drops her invisibility for a moment while she reads about the sword in front of her. Before she can even read the name of the weapon she was eying, cold steel is pressed against her throat, and out of the shadows walks one Ra’s Al Ghul.

After a moment of interrogation, he comes to the staggering realization this 12 year old girl not only found Nanda Parbat, she also snuck in without setting off any alarms and managed to steal a vial of Lazarus water.

“So you wish to know the secrets of our home, do you? Why don’t you stay awhile so you may personally learn of all that we have to offer. Come, I have a grandson your own age. Im sure he’d love to explain it himself.”

This man is trying his absolute best to pull a Bruce Wayne and adopt this black haired, blue eyed child. She’s make a powerful assassin and he refuses to lose out on this opportunit. Damian gaining a training partner is simply another benefit! Childhood rivalry brews such fine soldiers after all.

The artwork I made for @dptarotzine! (I'm credited as @/mooseymi) It was a very fun project, and all the contributors made such awesome stuff. Glad to be a part of it. 💚

Bonus scrapped concept sketches below:

So I’ve seen a lot of Justice League and BatFam meet Danny Phantom and it’s usually due to a fight/summoning/investigation/relation.

All of which are absolutely amazing! But I haven’t seen a SINGLE fic of them meeting Danny because they straight up crashed his funeral.

I’m also not talking about full-ghost Danny, our boy is still VERY much a Halfa.

Seriously consider the comedy that can be achieved with this.

I’m picturing it’s like at least a year after Danny beat Pariah Dark and all the citizens have pretty much accepted the fact that Phantom is their undead hero whom they’ve come to love.

Danny has pretty much fallen into a routine with his rouge gallery and although Amity is still 100% ghost infested it’s doing a lot better then it was with dealing with ghost attacks and ignoring the weirdness that pops up.

Then enter a well meaning child who has been taught that if you want to show appreciation to someone who is dead you put their favourite flowers on their grave. This kid who was just saved/ has been saved before by Phantom basically catches Danny with his metaphorical pants down when they innocently ask “where’s your grave? I want to give you flowers.”

Danny “no-brain-to-mouth-filter-when-panicked-and-has-been-surrounded-in-ghost-culture” Fenton’s first and only response is “I don’t have one cause no one mourns for me. Graves are only made for those who had people who cared that they died.” realizing what he just stated and then fleeing as fast as he can.

Amity Park gets a wake up call that THIS IS A DEAD CHILD, who, as Phantom was so kind to point out, DOES NOT HAVE A GRAVE AND OMG THERE ISN’T EVEN A MISSING CHILD REPORT AND HAVE WE BEEN RELYING ON A MURDERED KID TO SAVE US???????!!!!!!

Cue panic and Amity Park just going we need to show this Kid we care about him so lets give him a funeral. Danny is oddly touched and put off by the entire situation but honestly it’s also one more thing that protects his identity so overall it ain’t a bad thing.

Now look at it from the side of The Justice League/BatFam/other hero.

Amity Park’s news paper is probably going ballistic with trying to show their precious ghost kid that they care and love him and thus have a entire section dedicated to the major fights and situations he’s saved them from over the course of his hero career. They are trying to show him that his efforts are recognized and that he is appreciated and at the very end there is the mention of a funeral to be held for “Amity’s Greatest Hero”. Just to really hit home the point that they care for him.

Whatever hero/hero group that comes across a copy of the paper has no context for anything in said paper.

Amity Parkers are the only ones who read it anyways so why would they need to specify that their hero is a ghost? That the villains who attack the city are ghosts? Besides, the paper is meant for Phantom, scattered as much as possible so he can read when he gets a chance.

The hero/heroes are just left heartbroken and speechless because:

The situation in Amity Park is on the level of World ending threats and very much not the local vigilante with local villains standard that normal “small cities” deal with.

Apparently inter-dimensional beings have been invading Earth only to be stopped by a *wheezes* 14 to 16???!!! Year old (possibly inter-dimensional as well or local meta) child.

That child is the only one competent enough to hold the beings back.

That child is dead

This would be a we must go pay our respects to this child hero and we should investigate and set up protection so that all that this kid worked for isn’t for nothing.

Cue Amity’s public funeral for Phantom being crashed by the Justice League with everyone and their grandparents being the definition of confused. Better yet have it so there is a truce for Danny’s funeral so his rouges (who were 100% in the newspaper that the hero(es) read) are sitting/floating in the audience. Boxy is in the middle of a very tearful speech and Phantom is blushing so hard he is actively a glow-stick.

How it goes from there is up to the fic writer but honestly it would be so funny to have the Justice League meet Danny at his own funeral and him actively having to explain that yes ghosts exist and yes his rouges are in attendance cause they may be villains but they are “respectful and understanding villains fuck-you-very-much. Ancients can you believe that they think we’d attack the kid during his funeral! The audacity of some people.”