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Guy tied up in chair: uh…theres just one guy over there.

Mafia boss: Yeah. That’s Lil’ Tony. He’s got one of dem conditions where he’s got multiple mooks n’ his head. But when Big Tony fronts you’re gonna be in big trouble.

Stratt: tries to make a going-off comfort gift and instead creates the most insensitive thing possible

The basic idea is that, in the Son of Neptune, instead of heading straight for Camp Jupiter, Percy very vaguely remembers that the mysterious Annabeth lives very close by. He skids down the hill next to the Caldecott Tunnel, but instead of crashing into the highway, he lands in the back of a pickup and is carried away by a very panicked+annoyed driver who wants the kid in the back of his truck out.

(Please imagine Frank and Hazel, standing guard, watching some random kid go screaming down the side of a hill on a serving platter while pursued by gorgons, land in a pickup, and, still screaming, swordfight said gorgons. Who get whacked out of the air and run over by a school bus. Can you fucking imagine)

(Please also imagine Juno, waiting invisibly next to the road, also watching Percy go screaming by in a truck. She had been waiting there to give Percy her mysterious "choose safety or your memories" spiel but now he's fucking gone)

Percy establish pretty quickly that he has no memory and has no fucking clue what's going on. Annabeth stays silent and lets everyone make their assumptions, mainly that she also has no memory, because she recognizes an Extremely Dangerous Situation when it's waving a giant red flag in her face. Juno told the Legion to protect Percy. She basically told them to kill Annabeth. And they had a weird reaction to her parentage- she isn't going to incriminate herself any further without more info. She also knows a bit about the Roman camp from Jason, who told them as much as he could once his memory started returning, so she knows how dangerous the Romans can be.

With some minor changes, Percy’s quest in SoN proceeds as normal. Instead of his dreams featuring people trying to find him, it’s Annabeth and Jason making their way to New Rome. They keep getting delayed by run-of-the mill Demigod Shenanagins that delay their trip so that they only make it to New Rome on the day of the battle. Annabeth+Jason and Percy+Hazel+Frank basically arrive at the same time and together turn the tide of the battle.

Percy still kills Polydectes. After the battle, Annabeth, Jason, and Percy, with the advantage of numbers+more time, manage to convince Camp Jupiter that the Greeks really are good guys and not out to kill everyone. Percy doesn’t become the praetor of New Rome because Jason came back right before the election, but literally nobody is mad about that. 

The Argo II arrives two days after the battle and Jason is so excited to have his friends back that he won’t let Leo and Piper out of his sight. This is good, because the eldidon can’t get to the canons on the Argo II without stirring suspicion, so instead Leo starts lighting shit on fire like a flamethrower. Percy immediately douses him with water and knocks Leo the fuck out in 30 seconds flat before people have time to start rioting.

And then finally. Finally. The plot is kinda back on track. Leo regains consciousness and frees the ship from its course in Salt Lake City, but they continue east anyways. He doesn’t act possessed anymore but everyone (including him) is on edge because clearly something is up. 

On their end, New Rome is making their way to Camp Half-Blood to join forces against the giant threat. NR has no way of communicating with CHB (insert plot excuse for this), but the seven manage to Iris-Message CHB and warn them the Romans are coming and are not trying to kill them, so CHB is at least warned beforehand.

His little rascals.

They’re just wittle babies who don’t know that playing with time has consequences.

And they keep trying to fix their mistakes, these little cuties!

What do you mean they just left three timelines in the edge of collapsing and they don't even get a slap in the wrist for it!? Clockwork, Danny was almost eliminated when Dan did less! It wasn't even Danny and you were to eliminate him!

Danny: Mmm!!! - feeling jealous that he didn't scold the Flash/speedsters but did scold him - I hate you

Danny pointing at Flash, “He’s died multiple times.”

The trippy being sighs, “I knew my ex was going to keep causing trouble. The head of the Observants carved out an exception for superheroes. Until,” Points at Flash, “he’s dead dead, as in not coming back, the Observants don’t bother with them. You fall under it since you died first then became a superhero.”

“Wait, should we be worried about Deadman?” Flash asks.

The trippy being puts her head into her hands, “Please do not mention my second ex’s child. The Observants would change the rules to include non-Infinite Realm Ghosts to mess with both Deadman’s unlife, and the living lives of Justice League Dark.”

Danny glares at Flash, “Still not fair.”

Flash shrugs, “What do you expect me to do about it. Fistfight some Observants, whoever they are?”

Danny perks, “I want to meet all the alien superheroes. If I have to clean up your messes, I need encouragement. A day with an alien superhero for each clean up of yours I need to address.”

“One hour and there can’t be disasters.”

“Twenty hours, over a week, no overlap with disasters.”

“Two hours, no disaster overlap, visitor area of the Hall of Justice for the meeting.”

Danny scowled, “Sixteen hours, no disasters, meeting room in the Hall of Justice.”

Flash grinned, “Three hours, no disasters, meeting room on the Watchtower in space.”

Danny’s eyes glow, “Deal. I want to meet the Martian first.”

As he turns to leave Flash asks, “Which Martian? Martian Manhunter or Miss Martian?”

Danny nearly vibrates, “There’s two of them?” At Flash’s nod, “Manhunter first, then Miss Martian. Starting with the current mess.”

“Thanks Phantom,” Flash waits until Danny is gone, “I better have bribes for J’onn and M’gann. At least I can get Bats off my back.”

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“He’s a protection spirit.”

All eyes turned to look at the speaker, who rarely spoke up unless forced. 

“Will you elaborate on that, John?” Superman inquired. The meeting was about an apparent metahuman a government organization had labeled a ghost, who had been terrorizing a little town in Illinois for the past few years.

John Constantine sighed at this, before answering. “That sounds like a protection spirit. A ghost who claims a certain area as its own and protects it and the people in it from those who would do harm.” 

John lit a cigarette and took a drag before continuing, indifferent to the glare sent his way by Batman. “Spontaneously developing new abilities to combat a threat, the dislike for people who recklessly damage property and hurt citizens with no remorse, both are indicative of a protection spirit.”

He got really clumsy all of the sudden, things kept falling out of his hands and he kept getting his feet stuck in weird places. He also got really good at hide and seek, Tucker looked right at him and still didn’t see him. His booboos got better really fast and he’s was better at gymboree than he was before.

Danny tried telling Mommy and Daddy about what was happening but they where so happy their tunnel was working he didn’t want to bother them, they where so sad when it didn’t work, besides Jazzy said he was a big boy now and big boys took care of their own problems. This problem however was too big for even a big boy like him.

He was just on the ops center looking at the stars and wishing he could touch them. He thought about what Tucker said about the superheroes having a clubhouse in space and he wondered if he could see it if he looked hard enough. Danny stared and stared and the stars started looking closer and closer. Then he saw the clubhouse it was getting bigger too. Danny wondered if he looked hard enough if he could see his favorite hero Martian Manhunter if he looked close enough, maybe he’d even see Batman, he was Sammy’s favorite.

He didn’t see Martian Manhunter through the windows but he did see Batman. It looked like Batman and the other heroes where having group time at their circle table, they had lots of papers out, maybe it was drawing time. Danny wondered what they where drawing and looked so hard through the window it was like he went through it and was standing in the room with the heroes.

Suddenly Danny realizes he wasn’t looking so hard that he saw the clubhouse, he was actually in the clubhouse. How was he supposed to go home? how did he even get up here? Did he fly? Was Danny a superhero too and didn’t know it?

This was definitely a problem even a big boy couldn’t solve on his own, so he did what Jazzy always told him to do if he found a problem too big for even a big boy to fix, tell an adult.

He walked up to the closest hero and tugged at his cape. “Erm,” he started “I flew up”

…….

….

All the superheroes where really nice. Batman gave him a juice box and Flash got a bunch of fun snacks. The heroes where asking him all kinds of questions, he felt like it was show and tell.

….

What’s your name?

Danny

How did you get up here?

I flewed

Where did you come from?

My house

What’s your address?

I don’t have a dress, Jazzy has a few but I don’t think they will fit you

What are your parents names?

Mommy and Daddy

What do the other adults call your parents?

Crazy

Where do you go to school?

Miss Hartman’s class

Do your Mommy and Daddy know you’re here?

I don’t know

How long have you been flying?

I didn’t know I could fly till I got here

How did you get inside?

I went through the window

What does your house look like?

It’s a brown house with a spaceship on top and a big green sign

What does the sign say?

I don’t know I can’t read good yet, but it starts with an F, we learned about the letter F this week, Miss Hartman let me and Tucker talk about it cause both our names have an F in it.

What part of your name has an F in it?

Fenton

…

"Foley"

Now two last names to narrow down the City, maybe even neighbourhood.

And they found it.

Very solidly on Earth, the parents are known Ghost hunters with little ghosts to hunt. And then they ask the boy if anything weird had happened before he started feeling different.

"I've been really clumsy since I went into the Tunnel Mommy and Daddy built. It zapped me real bad and they look really happy since it started to work on top of me! I've never gone through walls, disappeared and flown though. Maybe that's from the fighting breakfast sausages I had this morning?"

...

It all started when she couldn’t find Danny this morning. At first she did t think is was weird Danny wasn’t in his own bed, since the portal started working she had been finding Danny sleeping in all kinds of strange places, maybe he was sleep walking.

She looked everywhere in the house; Danny’s bed, under his bed, his closet, under her bed, in her closet, mom and dads room (they didn’t sleep there again), under the kitchen table, in the cupboards, on top of the fridge, under the couch, behind the TV, in the scary closet lady in the dungeon, and every hidey hole Danny had in the ops center.

She even checked the lab, even though she knew Danny wouldn’t go there willingly, he had been scared of the lab since he got zapped, even if he wouldn’t admit it.

Mom and Dad where too busy to even listen to her worries, again. It had gotten worse since the portal started working. She thought they never left the lab before but now she knew it could get worse, because it had. After getting the net off herself (they thought she was a ghost again) she asked them if they had seen Danny. Mom said they hadn’t seen Danny since Saturday afternoon. It was Thursday morning. And it had been her Mom talked too on Saturday. Why had she asked her parents they wouldn’t have known anyway.

Maybe Danny had already headed to school. He was always saying he was a big boy now and he was ready for ‘sponsibilities like getting himself dressed in the morning and setting the table. Maybe he decided to be ‘sponsible and walk to school early today. She was going to have a long talk with Danny again, he should know better than to leave the house without telling her, or going to school without his backpack, or his lunch.

Jazz really hoped Danny was at school.

….

Danny wasn’t at school.

Miss. Hartman hadn’t seen him, Tucker hadn’t seen him, Sam hadn’t seen him, the hall monitor hadn’t seen him, the lunch lady hadn’t seen him, nobody had seen Danny.

Jazz was trying her best not to cry. Danny was missing and none of the adults where listening to her. She told them she couldn’t find Danny, that she hadn’t seen him since last night, that she had hoped he went to school without her.

They just told her not to worry, the adults were sure Danny was safe at home, and that her parents just forgot to call the school, and that she was making up stories again.

Why did adults always think she was making up stories when she told them the truth.

But no, there was no way Jazz and Danny could walk to school alone, they where far too young. No way Jazz knew how to cook, she could barely reach the stove top. No way Jazz could have fought glowing hotdogs, food doesn’t do that.

Why did adults never take her seriously. Danny was missing and no one cared. They just told her she was exaggerating and that if Danny was missing surely her parents would have noticed.

But they didn’t

Mom and Dad never notice

They are always too busy trying to hunt ghosts!

(Jazz was starting to think there where no ghosts but if she admitted it than it meant her parents ignored them for nothing)

Jazz felt the hot tears welling in her eyes.

She heard the teachers try to calm her down

She tasted the salt of her tears on her tongue as she sobbed

She heard the principal try to call her parents (like they would leave the lab long enough to pick up)

She wanted her little brother. She needed to know he was safe. She needed the adults to listen to her for once.

She needed-

She needed someone to rescue her.

“Hey sweetheart,” Diana said, stepping out of the meeting room, “I know whatever is happening is probably a lot, but I can’t make out what you’re saying. Can you take a few deep breaths for me? I know it sounds silly, but it will help.”

The child on the line (the area code put them in the same part of Illinois as Amity Park which she took note of) followed her instructions before repeating their message. “My, b-brother is is missing and and no-no one is listening! I-I have-haven’t seen since last n-night and I looked around the wh-whole house! I looked all over his room and my room and mom and dad’s room and the living room and the kitchen and the lab even though he hasn’t gone down there since he got zapped because that scared him even though he won’t say it did! I even asked mom and dad but mom said she hadn’t seen him since Saturday aft-afternoo-oon but I was the one she talked to on Saturday. But he’s saying he’s a big boy so I thought he might’ve walked himself to school, but the teachers said he wasn’t there an’ Tucker hadn’t seen ‘im an’ an’ i tried to tell the teachers but they thought i was telling stories again like they always do an’ I do-don’t know what to do but i need a-a hero so I called you!”

Slightly on autopilot as she processed those words (not even recognizing the name in the poor child’s story as the same as Danny’s friend until later), she asked for some basic information. “Okay, sweetheart. I’m happy to help, but I’ll need some information to help me find him. First what’s your name? And how old are you?”

“M’ name is Jazz. ‘M seven.”

“Alright Jazz. Can you tell me your last name?”

“Fenton. ‘M Jazz Fenton.” And suddenly everything felt a bit too coincidental.

“Hey, sweetheart? Would your brother’s name happen to be Danny?”

“You know him!? Do you know where he is? Is he safe? Can you bring him home?”

“Yes, sweetheart. He actually got to the Watchtower up in space somehow. We were actually trying to figure out where he was from, but that’s a lot harder when he doesn’t know a lot of the information that would help us. We actually had just figured out where he lived to get him home when your call got to me. Would you mind answering some questions we have while we work on getting your brother back to you?”

“Yeah, as long as Danny’s safe. Can I talk to him?”

“Sure thing sweetheart, just give me a bit.” Stepping back into the meeting room, Diana handed put her phone on speaker before holding it toward Danny and telling him “Danny, your sister, Jazz, is on the phone.” Due to the view of space that they had, they had thankfully been able to contain the child. Mostly.

“Jazzy! I’s in space! I’s so cool! An’ tha hewos are weally weally nice!”

“That’s great, Danny. I was really worried when I couldn’t find you this morning!”

They Zeta down the the closest major city and the waiting Batwing flies them over in record time.  Once they arrive, Jazz comes sprinting out (followed by a rather perplexed gaggle of teachers, administrators and curious students) to fling herself into Wonder Woman’s open arms.  When the CPS agent gets there...well, things are kinda tense...

CPS flunky:  Really, the girl is always going on about having to fight her food and kill it again before she can safely eat it!  Why are you even...

Batman:  *doomglare*  This child’s brother somehow managed to sleepwalk into the Watchtower.

Wonder Woman:  *still cradling Jazz*  Which is, if you didn’t know, in low Earth orbit.

Black Canary: *resisting the urge to use her scream on this idiot*  And, even if this wasn’t the case, YOU CHECK THESE THINGS OUT REGARDLESS!!!

The CPS flunky (and the rest of the Caspar Elementary staff) goes corpse white and starts pulling out some paperwork from their bags.  After listening (and Jazz is so relieved to FINALLY be listened to) to the story, they say they need to assess the home situation immediately.  And the JL members insist on accompanying them for this.

Which leads to the CPS flunky, Batman and Wonder Woman standing outside the door of FentonWorks (Black Canary stayed back with Jazz) and about to knock on the door...

Dave was not expecting to get shot by green lasers when he rang the doorbell (if it wasn’t for Wonder Woman he would have more than just a hole in his tie). Nor was he expecting Jasmine’s non-reaction as she used her house key to open the door (maybe he should have listened when she told him not to ring the bell)

At first the living room looked pretty typical for small town America but then Dave noticed some peculiarities. The room was mostly clean but only the bottom half. Everything under five feet was spotless, over five feet and it was filthy. Jasmine Fenton was under five feet but with her arms outstretched she could probably just reach the cleaning line.

The kitchen also looked fairly normal, if not for the step stools and toy guns on the kitchen table. The stools where everywhere, by the fridge, the cupboards, even the stove. Dave checked the cupboards, there was cheap but relatively healthy food at the bottom and expired snacks up top, far out of Jasmine’s reach even with the step stool.

Dave made a quick peak in the fridge and -

….

Food should not do that, it should not be glowing and moving. Those where hotdogs how where they moving? If it wasn’t for Batman and Jasmine he would be dead three times today. He thought the gun was a toy, it shot lasers just like the door bell. What kind of parents left working laser guns on the kitchen table and why did Jasmine even know how to use it. This was worse than he thought.

Just when Dave thought it couldn’t get any worse and explosion came from the basement. Jasmine didn’t even flinch, she just went to the bottom shelf next to the basement door and grabbed an EMT sized first aid kit and headed down the steps with the heroes in quick pursuit.

….

He was only a few seconds behind them, how had Batman end up covered in glowing green goo, why was Black Canary and Wonder Woman in a fist fight with the Fentons, where those open chemicals and a weapons vault and was that a swirling green portal in the wall. Why where the Fentons claiming the heroes where ghosts and telling Jasmine to throw them weapons, was that a bazooka, and a whip with Jack Fenton’s face on it. What the hell was going on!

…

Dave was going to retire. He was going to retire and move far away from the Fenton menace. The Drs. Fenton had been detained, tied up in their own glowing green net. Now they where yelling at Jasmine, saying she was a ghost, that was the only reason they could think of that she would shoot them with a net gun after they tried to shoot the downed Batman with the Bazooka.

Jasmine was seconds away from crying, saying she wasn’t a ghost and just wanted them to stop fighting. Her parents started going on about how the ghosts where obviously tricking her, and how she could be so stupid to believe a ghost, and how they raised her better than that. All this was going on as the seven year old patched up her parents wounds with a worryingly practiced ease.

Dave didn’t know what to do, none of his training mentioned what to do when mad scientists attacked the Justice League. No fosters in Amity would dare take the kids in fear their parents would come looking for them. Dave had seen Jack Fenton go through brick walls like the Kool-Aid Man, he doubted any prison could hold him for long. And if Daniel had powers like the heroes thought it would be even harder to place the kids in a home together.

Tim: Thank you! You just made me, Jason AND Damian pleased!

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Danny and Jazz have been having an interesting time. Mom and Dad are now in prison. And they live in a new house. And Danny gets to see Martian Manhunter lots! Cause of his new powers! And they get to see Wonder Woman too! Apparently Jazz has powers too! Just not as strong as Danny! How cool is that! So they get to train like heroes do!

so like the day of, while theyre still in the lab and taking time to gather evidence, Tucker wanders over cause school is out now and Jazz seemed pretty worried so of course he had to check on Danny! (I think it's implyed in the christmjas episode that they don't meet sam until later on so she's not here also how do you write as a 5 year old?? XD)

Everyone else is busy yelling at the Fentons and Jazz is sitting off to the side crying, but Jazz is like his big sister too so he sits by her and listens and hugs her and waits for all the grownups to stop being dumb, but at least he knows Danny is ok! And space! man he's gotta be so hyper right now! Tucker noticed after his sudden super hero powers started showing up Danny's love of space has gotten worse. He starts glowing when they look at books or watch tv, but Tucker dosen't think he realized he does that yet.

The green light in the room flickers and all the grown ups- wait was that the Justice League?!?! how had tucker missed that before?!?- turns to the portal looking ready to fight but its just Ms. Lunch Lady with Danny's after school snacks.

Though as soon as she sees the Fentons tied up she's got her scary face on and yelling "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THE CHILDREN?!?!"

The heroes look ready to fight but Tucker knows she's just worried about Danny so he walks over -the grownups finally notice him and they look scared- and waves to her smiling "Hi Ms. Lunch lady!"

That thankfully gets rid of her scary face, tucker dosen't like her scary face.., as she turns to him and her voice is soft again. "Hello dear, are you alright? what happened, wheres your friend at?" cause she explained while Danny's love of space makes him happy and his powers stronger, Ms. lunch lady likes to make sure kids like them have lots of food and are safe. Especially Danny, she says Danny was a lot like her world but also not.

"Danny's not here right now Ms lunch lady sorry, but um, i guess he finally got the flying power and went into space while he was asleep last night?"

She looked panicked as he said that so he kept talking "But he's ok! the superheroes found him! and jazz called them cause she got scared when she couldn't find him so i guess they came to pick her up?" He looks around at the grown ups again, Ms lunch lady is looking at the heroes like they might hurt tucker or jazz like the skullbot tried to do that one time but Danny totally beat him up before he could. but they wouldn't theyre heroes!

(switching to ww pov cause damn how do you write a 5 year old without big words?!)

Diana sees the situation for what it is, she recognizes the feel of the woman and begins to understand just what little Danny is now. At least partialy, and so young too..

She puts a hand on Bruce's shoulder, He's tense and although he sees that the boy trusts the ghost, his own parental instincts are screaming stranger danger because it's still an unknown entity. Bruce relaxes just a little at her unvoiced reassurance and steps forward.

"Hello, I'm very sorry to make you worry ma'm. But I assure you we mean the children no harm. I can call Danny if you'd like? We can take these two upstairs and talk, I'm sure they've had their fill of angry adults for the day."

Ms lunch lady, as Tucker called her, Diana was aware of their kinds importance on chosen names, eyes the rest of the room again before turning to the children, Jazz seemed a bit unsure, like she didn't know lunch lady as well as tucker. but the boy smiles and takes her hand leading the floating woman upstairs. Jazz jumping up soon after "Tucker wait! let me turn off the thing first!!"

He got really clumsy all of the sudden, things kept falling out of his hands and he kept getting his feet stuck in weird places. He also got really good at hide and seek, Tucker looked right at him and still didn’t see him. His booboos got better really fast and he’s was better at gymboree than he was before.

Danny tried telling Mommy and Daddy about what was happening but they where so happy their tunnel was working he didn’t want to bother them, they where so sad when it didn’t work, besides Jazzy said he was a big boy now and big boys took care of their own problems. This problem however was too big for even a big boy like him.

He was just on the ops center looking at the stars and wishing he could touch them. He thought about what Tucker said about the superheroes having a clubhouse in space and he wondered if he could see it if he looked hard enough. Danny stared and stared and the stars started looking closer and closer. Then he saw the clubhouse it was getting bigger too. Danny wondered if he looked hard enough if he could see his favorite hero Martian Manhunter if he looked close enough, maybe he’d even see Batman, he was Sammy’s favorite.

He didn’t see Martian Manhunter through the windows but he did see Batman. It looked like Batman and the other heroes where having group time at their circle table, they had lots of papers out, maybe it was drawing time. Danny wondered what they where drawing and looked so hard through the window it was like he went through it and was standing in the room with the heroes.

Suddenly Danny realizes he wasn’t looking so hard that he saw the clubhouse, he was actually in the clubhouse. How was he supposed to go home? how did he even get up here? Did he fly? Was Danny a superhero too and didn’t know it?

This was definitely a problem even a big boy couldn’t solve on his own, so he did what Jazzy always told him to do if he found a problem too big for even a big boy to fix, tell an adult.

He walked up to the closest hero and tugged at his cape. “Erm,” he started “I flew up”

…….

….

All the superheroes where really nice. Batman gave him a juice box and Flash got a bunch of fun snacks. The heroes where asking him all kinds of questions, he felt like it was show and tell.

….

What’s your name?

Danny

How did you get up here?

I flewed

Where did you come from?

My house

What’s your address?

I don’t have a dress, Jazzy has a few but I don’t think they will fit you

What are your parents names?

Mommy and Daddy

What do the other adults call your parents?

Crazy

Where do you go to school?

Miss Hartman’s class

Do your Mommy and Daddy know you’re here?

I don’t know

How long have you been flying?

I didn’t know I could fly till I got here

How did you get inside?

I went through the window

What does your house look like?

It’s a brown house with a spaceship on top and a big green sign

What does the sign say?

I don’t know I can’t read good yet, but it starts with an F, we learned about the letter F this week, Miss Hartman let me and Tucker talk about it cause both our names have an F in it.

What part of your name has an F in it?

Fenton

…

"Foley"

Now two last names to narrow down the City, maybe even neighbourhood.

And they found it.

Very solidly on Earth, the parents are known Ghost hunters with little ghosts to hunt. And then they ask the boy if anything weird had happened before he started feeling different.

"I've been really clumsy since I went into the Tunnel Mommy and Daddy built. It zapped me real bad and they look really happy since it started to work on top of me! I've never gone through walls, disappeared and flown though. Maybe that's from the fighting breakfast sausages I had this morning?"

...

It all started when she couldn’t find Danny this morning. At first she did t think is was weird Danny wasn’t in his own bed, since the portal started working she had been finding Danny sleeping in all kinds of strange places, maybe he was sleep walking.

She looked everywhere in the house; Danny’s bed, under his bed, his closet, under her bed, in her closet, mom and dads room (they didn’t sleep there again), under the kitchen table, in the cupboards, on top of the fridge, under the couch, behind the TV, in the scary closet lady in the dungeon, and every hidey hole Danny had in the ops center.

She even checked the lab, even though she knew Danny wouldn’t go there willingly, he had been scared of the lab since he got zapped, even if he wouldn’t admit it.

Mom and Dad where too busy to even listen to her worries, again. It had gotten worse since the portal started working. She thought they never left the lab before but now she knew it could get worse, because it had. After getting the net off herself (they thought she was a ghost again) she asked them if they had seen Danny. Mom said they hadn’t seen Danny since Saturday afternoon. It was Thursday morning. And it had been her Mom talked too on Saturday. Why had she asked her parents they wouldn’t have known anyway.

Maybe Danny had already headed to school. He was always saying he was a big boy now and he was ready for ‘sponsibilities like getting himself dressed in the morning and setting the table. Maybe he decided to be ‘sponsible and walk to school early today. She was going to have a long talk with Danny again, he should know better than to leave the house without telling her, or going to school without his backpack, or his lunch.

Jazz really hoped Danny was at school.

….

Danny wasn’t at school.

Miss. Hartman hadn’t seen him, Tucker hadn’t seen him, Sam hadn’t seen him, the hall monitor hadn’t seen him, the lunch lady hadn’t seen him, nobody had seen Danny.

Jazz was trying her best not to cry. Danny was missing and none of the adults where listening to her. She told them she couldn’t find Danny, that she hadn’t seen him since last night, that she had hoped he went to school without her.

They just told her not to worry, the adults were sure Danny was safe at home, and that her parents just forgot to call the school, and that she was making up stories again.

Why did adults always think she was making up stories when she told them the truth.

But no, there was no way Jazz and Danny could walk to school alone, they where far too young. No way Jazz knew how to cook, she could barely reach the stove top. No way Jazz could have fought glowing hotdogs, food doesn’t do that.

Why did adults never take her seriously. Danny was missing and no one cared. They just told her she was exaggerating and that if Danny was missing surely her parents would have noticed.

But they didn’t

Mom and Dad never notice

They are always too busy trying to hunt ghosts!

(Jazz was starting to think there where no ghosts but if she admitted it than it meant her parents ignored them for nothing)

Jazz felt the hot tears welling in her eyes.

She heard the teachers try to calm her down

She tasted the salt of her tears on her tongue as she sobbed

She heard the principal try to call her parents (like they would leave the lab long enough to pick up)

She wanted her little brother. She needed to know he was safe. She needed the adults to listen to her for once.

She needed-

She needed someone to rescue her.

“Hey sweetheart,” Diana said, stepping out of the meeting room, “I know whatever is happening is probably a lot, but I can’t make out what you’re saying. Can you take a few deep breaths for me? I know it sounds silly, but it will help.”

The child on the line (the area code put them in the same part of Illinois as Amity Park which she took note of) followed her instructions before repeating their message. “My, b-brother is is missing and and no-no one is listening! I-I have-haven’t seen since last n-night and I looked around the wh-whole house! I looked all over his room and my room and mom and dad’s room and the living room and the kitchen and the lab even though he hasn’t gone down there since he got zapped because that scared him even though he won’t say it did! I even asked mom and dad but mom said she hadn’t seen him since Saturday aft-afternoo-oon but I was the one she talked to on Saturday. But he’s saying he’s a big boy so I thought he might’ve walked himself to school, but the teachers said he wasn’t there an’ Tucker hadn’t seen ‘im an’ an’ i tried to tell the teachers but they thought i was telling stories again like they always do an’ I do-don’t know what to do but i need a-a hero so I called you!”

Slightly on autopilot as she processed those words (not even recognizing the name in the poor child’s story as the same as Danny’s friend until later), she asked for some basic information. “Okay, sweetheart. I’m happy to help, but I’ll need some information to help me find him. First what’s your name? And how old are you?”

“M’ name is Jazz. ‘M seven.”

“Alright Jazz. Can you tell me your last name?”

“Fenton. ‘M Jazz Fenton.” And suddenly everything felt a bit too coincidental.

“Hey, sweetheart? Would your brother’s name happen to be Danny?”

“You know him!? Do you know where he is? Is he safe? Can you bring him home?”

“Yes, sweetheart. He actually got to the Watchtower up in space somehow. We were actually trying to figure out where he was from, but that’s a lot harder when he doesn’t know a lot of the information that would help us. We actually had just figured out where he lived to get him home when your call got to me. Would you mind answering some questions we have while we work on getting your brother back to you?”

“Yeah, as long as Danny’s safe. Can I talk to him?”

“Sure thing sweetheart, just give me a bit.” Stepping back into the meeting room, Diana handed put her phone on speaker before holding it toward Danny and telling him “Danny, your sister, Jazz, is on the phone.” Due to the view of space that they had, they had thankfully been able to contain the child. Mostly.

“Jazzy! I’s in space! I’s so cool! An’ tha hewos are weally weally nice!”

“That’s great, Danny. I was really worried when I couldn’t find you this morning!”

They Zeta down the the closest major city and the waiting Batwing flies them over in record time.  Once they arrive, Jazz comes sprinting out (followed by a rather perplexed gaggle of teachers, administrators and curious students) to fling herself into Wonder Woman’s open arms.  When the CPS agent gets there...well, things are kinda tense...

CPS flunky:  Really, the girl is always going on about having to fight her food and kill it again before she can safely eat it!  Why are you even...

Batman:  *doomglare*  This child’s brother somehow managed to sleepwalk into the Watchtower.

Wonder Woman:  *still cradling Jazz*  Which is, if you didn’t know, in low Earth orbit.

Black Canary: *resisting the urge to use her scream on this idiot*  And, even if this wasn’t the case, YOU CHECK THESE THINGS OUT REGARDLESS!!!

The CPS flunky (and the rest of the Caspar Elementary staff) goes corpse white and starts pulling out some paperwork from their bags.  After listening (and Jazz is so relieved to FINALLY be listened to) to the story, they say they need to assess the home situation immediately.  And the JL members insist on accompanying them for this.

Which leads to the CPS flunky, Batman and Wonder Woman standing outside the door of FentonWorks (Black Canary stayed back with Jazz) and about to knock on the door...

Dave was not expecting to get shot by green lasers when he rang the doorbell (if it wasn’t for Wonder Woman he would have more than just a hole in his tie). Nor was he expecting Jasmine’s non-reaction as she used her house key to open the door (maybe he should have listened when she told him not to ring the bell)

At first the living room looked pretty typical for small town America but then Dave noticed some peculiarities. The room was mostly clean but only the bottom half. Everything under five feet was spotless, over five feet and it was filthy. Jasmine Fenton was under five feet but with her arms outstretched she could probably just reach the cleaning line.

The kitchen also looked fairly normal, if not for the step stools and toy guns on the kitchen table. The stools where everywhere, by the fridge, the cupboards, even the stove. Dave checked the cupboards, there was cheap but relatively healthy food at the bottom and expired snacks up top, far out of Jasmine’s reach even with the step stool.

Dave made a quick peak in the fridge and -

….

Food should not do that, it should not be glowing and moving. Those where hotdogs how where they moving? If it wasn’t for Batman and Jasmine he would be dead three times today. He thought the gun was a toy, it shot lasers just like the door bell. What kind of parents left working laser guns on the kitchen table and why did Jasmine even know how to use it. This was worse than he thought.

Just when Dave thought it couldn’t get any worse and explosion came from the basement. Jasmine didn’t even flinch, she just went to the bottom shelf next to the basement door and grabbed an EMT sized first aid kit and headed down the steps with the heroes in quick pursuit.

….

He was only a few seconds behind them, how had Batman end up covered in glowing green goo, why was Black Canary and Wonder Woman in a fist fight with the Fentons, where those open chemicals and a weapons vault and was that a swirling green portal in the wall. Why where the Fentons claiming the heroes where ghosts and telling Jasmine to throw them weapons, was that a bazooka, and a whip with Jack Fenton’s face on it. What the hell was going on!

…

Dave was going to retire. He was going to retire and move far away from the Fenton menace. The Drs. Fenton had been detained, tied up in their own glowing green net. Now they where yelling at Jasmine, saying she was a ghost, that was the only reason they could think of that she would shoot them with a net gun after they tried to shoot the downed Batman with the Bazooka.

Jasmine was seconds away from crying, saying she wasn’t a ghost and just wanted them to stop fighting. Her parents started going on about how the ghosts where obviously tricking her, and how she could be so stupid to believe a ghost, and how they raised her better than that. All this was going on as the seven year old patched up her parents wounds with a worryingly practiced ease.

Dave didn’t know what to do, none of his training mentioned what to do when mad scientists attacked the Justice League. No fosters in Amity would dare take the kids in fear their parents would come looking for them. Dave had seen Jack Fenton go through brick walls like the Kool-Aid Man, he doubted any prison could hold him for long. And if Daniel had powers like the heroes thought it would be even harder to place the kids in a home together.

Tim: Thank you! You just made me, Jason AND Damian pleased!

----

Danny and Jazz have been having an interesting time. Mom and Dad are now in prison. And they live in a new house. And Danny gets to see Martian Manhunter lots! Cause of his new powers! And they get to see Wonder Woman too! Apparently Jazz has powers too! Just not as strong as Danny! How cool is that! So they get to train like heroes do!

He got really clumsy all of the sudden, things kept falling out of his hands and he kept getting his feet stuck in weird places. He also got really good at hide and seek, Tucker looked right at him and still didn’t see him. His booboos got better really fast and he’s was better at gymboree than he was before.

Danny tried telling Mommy and Daddy about what was happening but they where so happy their tunnel was working he didn’t want to bother them, they where so sad when it didn’t work, besides Jazzy said he was a big boy now and big boys took care of their own problems. This problem however was too big for even a big boy like him.

He was just on the ops center looking at the stars and wishing he could touch them. He thought about what Tucker said about the superheroes having a clubhouse in space and he wondered if he could see it if he looked hard enough. Danny stared and stared and the stars started looking closer and closer. Then he saw the clubhouse it was getting bigger too. Danny wondered if he looked hard enough if he could see his favorite hero Martian Manhunter if he looked close enough, maybe he’d even see Batman, he was Sammy’s favorite.

He didn’t see Martian Manhunter through the windows but he did see Batman. It looked like Batman and the other heroes where having group time at their circle table, they had lots of papers out, maybe it was drawing time. Danny wondered what they where drawing and looked so hard through the window it was like he went through it and was standing in the room with the heroes.

Suddenly Danny realizes he wasn’t looking so hard that he saw the clubhouse, he was actually in the clubhouse. How was he supposed to go home? how did he even get up here? Did he fly? Was Danny a superhero too and didn’t know it?

This was definitely a problem even a big boy couldn’t solve on his own, so he did what Jazzy always told him to do if he found a problem too big for even a big boy to fix, tell an adult.

He walked up to the closest hero and tugged at his cape. “Erm,” he started “I flew up”

…….

….

All the superheroes where really nice. Batman gave him a juice box and Flash got a bunch of fun snacks. The heroes where asking him all kinds of questions, he felt like it was show and tell.

….

What’s your name?

Danny

How did you get up here?

I flewed

Where did you come from?

My house

What’s your address?

I don’t have a dress, Jazzy has a few but I don’t think they will fit you

What are your parents names?

Mommy and Daddy

What do the other adults call your parents?

Crazy

Where do you go to school?

Miss Hartman’s class

Do your Mommy and Daddy know you’re here?

I don’t know

How long have you been flying?

I didn’t know I could fly till I got here

How did you get inside?

I went through the window

What does your house look like?

It’s a brown house with a spaceship on top and a big green sign

What does the sign say?

I don’t know I can’t read good yet, but it starts with an F, we learned about the letter F this week, Miss Hartman let me and Tucker talk about it cause both our names have an F in it.

What part of your name has an F in it?

Fenton

…

"Foley"

Now two last names to narrow down the City, maybe even neighbourhood.

And they found it.

Very solidly on Earth, the parents are known Ghost hunters with little ghosts to hunt. And then they ask the boy if anything weird had happened before he started feeling different.

"I've been really clumsy since I went into the Tunnel Mommy and Daddy built. It zapped me real bad and they look really happy since it started to work on top of me! I've never gone through walls, disappeared and flown though. Maybe that's from the fighting breakfast sausages I had this morning?"

...

It all started when she couldn’t find Danny this morning. At first she did t think is was weird Danny wasn’t in his own bed, since the portal started working she had been finding Danny sleeping in all kinds of strange places, maybe he was sleep walking.

She looked everywhere in the house; Danny’s bed, under his bed, his closet, under her bed, in her closet, mom and dads room (they didn’t sleep there again), under the kitchen table, in the cupboards, on top of the fridge, under the couch, behind the TV, in the scary closet lady in the dungeon, and every hidey hole Danny had in the ops center.

She even checked the lab, even though she knew Danny wouldn’t go there willingly, he had been scared of the lab since he got zapped, even if he wouldn’t admit it.

Mom and Dad where too busy to even listen to her worries, again. It had gotten worse since the portal started working. She thought they never left the lab before but now she knew it could get worse, because it had. After getting the net off herself (they thought she was a ghost again) she asked them if they had seen Danny. Mom said they hadn’t seen Danny since Saturday afternoon. It was Thursday morning. And it had been her Mom talked too on Saturday. Why had she asked her parents they wouldn’t have known anyway.

Maybe Danny had already headed to school. He was always saying he was a big boy now and he was ready for ‘sponsibilities like getting himself dressed in the morning and setting the table. Maybe he decided to be ‘sponsible and walk to school early today. She was going to have a long talk with Danny again, he should know better than to leave the house without telling her, or going to school without his backpack, or his lunch.

Jazz really hoped Danny was at school.

….

Danny wasn’t at school.

Miss. Hartman hadn’t seen him, Tucker hadn’t seen him, Sam hadn’t seen him, the hall monitor hadn’t seen him, the lunch lady hadn’t seen him, nobody had seen Danny.

Jazz was trying her best not to cry. Danny was missing and none of the adults where listening to her. She told them she couldn’t find Danny, that she hadn’t seen him since last night, that she had hoped he went to school without her.

They just told her not to worry, the adults were sure Danny was safe at home, and that her parents just forgot to call the school, and that she was making up stories again.

Why did adults always think she was making up stories when she told them the truth.

But no, there was no way Jazz and Danny could walk to school alone, they where far too young. No way Jazz knew how to cook, she could barely reach the stove top. No way Jazz could have fought glowing hotdogs, food doesn’t do that.

Why did adults never take her seriously. Danny was missing and no one cared. They just told her she was exaggerating and that if Danny was missing surely her parents would have noticed.

But they didn’t

Mom and Dad never notice

They are always too busy trying to hunt ghosts!

(Jazz was starting to think there where no ghosts but if she admitted it than it meant her parents ignored them for nothing)

Jazz felt the hot tears welling in her eyes.

She heard the teachers try to calm her down

She tasted the salt of her tears on her tongue as she sobbed

She heard the principal try to call her parents (like they would leave the lab long enough to pick up)

She wanted her little brother. She needed to know he was safe. She needed the adults to listen to her for once.

She needed-

She needed someone to rescue her.

“Hey sweetheart,” Diana said, stepping out of the meeting room, “I know whatever is happening is probably a lot, but I can’t make out what you’re saying. Can you take a few deep breaths for me? I know it sounds silly, but it will help.”

The child on the line (the area code put them in the same part of Illinois as Amity Park which she took note of) followed her instructions before repeating their message. “My, b-brother is is missing and and no-no one is listening! I-I have-haven’t seen since last n-night and I looked around the wh-whole house! I looked all over his room and my room and mom and dad’s room and the living room and the kitchen and the lab even though he hasn’t gone down there since he got zapped because that scared him even though he won’t say it did! I even asked mom and dad but mom said she hadn’t seen him since Saturday aft-afternoo-oon but I was the one she talked to on Saturday. But he’s saying he’s a big boy so I thought he might’ve walked himself to school, but the teachers said he wasn’t there an’ Tucker hadn’t seen ‘im an’ an’ i tried to tell the teachers but they thought i was telling stories again like they always do an’ I do-don’t know what to do but i need a-a hero so I called you!”

Slightly on autopilot as she processed those words (not even recognizing the name in the poor child’s story as the same as Danny’s friend until later), she asked for some basic information. “Okay, sweetheart. I’m happy to help, but I’ll need some information to help me find him. First what’s your name? And how old are you?”

“M’ name is Jazz. ‘M seven.”

“Alright Jazz. Can you tell me your last name?”

“Fenton. ‘M Jazz Fenton.” And suddenly everything felt a bit too coincidental.

“Hey, sweetheart? Would your brother’s name happen to be Danny?”

“You know him!? Do you know where he is? Is he safe? Can you bring him home?”

“Yes, sweetheart. He actually got to the Watchtower up in space somehow. We were actually trying to figure out where he was from, but that’s a lot harder when he doesn’t know a lot of the information that would help us. We actually had just figured out where he lived to get him home when your call got to me. Would you mind answering some questions we have while we work on getting your brother back to you?”

“Yeah, as long as Danny’s safe. Can I talk to him?”

“Sure thing sweetheart, just give me a bit.” Stepping back into the meeting room, Diana handed put her phone on speaker before holding it toward Danny and telling him “Danny, your sister, Jazz, is on the phone.” Due to the view of space that they had, they had thankfully been able to contain the child. Mostly.

“Jazzy! I’s in space! I’s so cool! An’ tha hewos are weally weally nice!”

“That’s great, Danny. I was really worried when I couldn’t find you this morning!”

They Zeta down the the closest major city and the waiting Batwing flies them over in record time.  Once they arrive, Jazz comes sprinting out (followed by a rather perplexed gaggle of teachers, administrators and curious students) to fling herself into Wonder Woman’s open arms.  When the CPS agent gets there...well, things are kinda tense...

CPS flunky:  Really, the girl is always going on about having to fight her food and kill it again before she can safely eat it!  Why are you even...

Batman:  *doomglare*  This child’s brother somehow managed to sleepwalk into the Watchtower.

Wonder Woman:  *still cradling Jazz*  Which is, if you didn’t know, in low Earth orbit.

Black Canary: *resisting the urge to use her scream on this idiot*  And, even if this wasn’t the case, YOU CHECK THESE THINGS OUT REGARDLESS!!!

The CPS flunky (and the rest of the Caspar Elementary staff) goes corpse white and starts pulling out some paperwork from their bags.  After listening (and Jazz is so relieved to FINALLY be listened to) to the story, they say they need to assess the home situation immediately.  And the JL members insist on accompanying them for this.

Which leads to the CPS flunky, Batman and Wonder Woman standing outside the door of FentonWorks (Black Canary stayed back with Jazz) and about to knock on the door...

Dave was not expecting to get shot by green lasers when he rang the doorbell (if it wasn’t for Wonder Woman he would have more than just a hole in his tie). Nor was he expecting Jasmine’s non-reaction as she used her house key to open the door (maybe he should have listened when she told him not to ring the bell)

At first the living room looked pretty typical for small town America but then Dave noticed some peculiarities. The room was mostly clean but only the bottom half. Everything under five feet was spotless, over five feet and it was filthy. Jasmine Fenton was under five feet but with her arms outstretched she could probably just reach the cleaning line.

The kitchen also looked fairly normal, if not for the step stools and toy guns on the kitchen table. The stools where everywhere, by the fridge, the cupboards, even the stove. Dave checked the cupboards, there was cheap but relatively healthy food at the bottom and expired snacks up top, far out of Jasmine’s reach even with the step stool.

Dave made a quick peak in the fridge and -

….

Food should not do that, it should not be glowing and moving. Those where hotdogs how where they moving? If it wasn’t for Batman and Jasmine he would be dead three times today. He thought the gun was a toy, it shot lasers just like the door bell. What kind of parents left working laser guns on the kitchen table and why did Jasmine even know how to use it. This was worse than he thought.

Just when Dave thought it couldn’t get any worse and explosion came from the basement. Jasmine didn’t even flinch, she just went to the bottom shelf next to the basement door and grabbed an EMT sized first aid kit and headed down the steps with the heroes in quick pursuit.

….

He was only a few seconds behind them, how had Batman end up covered in glowing green goo, why was Black Canary and Wonder Woman in a fist fight with the Fentons, where those open chemicals and a weapons vault and was that a swirling green portal in the wall. Why where the Fentons claiming the heroes where ghosts and telling Jasmine to throw them weapons, was that a bazooka, and a whip with Jack Fenton’s face on it. What the hell was going on!

…

Dave was going to retire. He was going to retire and move far away from the Fenton menace. The Drs. Fenton had been detained, tied up in their own glowing green net. Now they where yelling at Jasmine, saying she was a ghost, that was the only reason they could think of that she would shoot them with a net gun after they tried to shoot the downed Batman with the Bazooka.

Jasmine was seconds away from crying, saying she wasn’t a ghost and just wanted them to stop fighting. Her parents started going on about how the ghosts where obviously tricking her, and how she could be so stupid to believe a ghost, and how they raised her better than that. All this was going on as the seven year old patched up her parents wounds with a worryingly practiced ease.

Dave didn’t know what to do, none of his training mentioned what to do when mad scientists attacked the Justice League. No fosters in Amity would dare take the kids in fear their parents would come looking for them. Dave had seen Jack Fenton go through brick walls like the Kool-Aid Man, he doubted any prison could hold him for long. And if Daniel had powers like the heroes thought it would be even harder to place the kids in a home together.

Tim: Thank you! You just made me, Jason AND Damian pleased!

----

Danny and Jazz have been having an interesting time. Mom and Dad are now in prison. And they live in a new house. And Danny gets to see Martian Manhunter lots! Cause of his new powers! And they get to see Wonder Woman too! Apparently Jazz has powers too! Just not as strong as Danny! How cool is that! So they get to train like heroes do!

They have spent the entire time yelling about ghosts kidnapping their kids all the way through the trial.

The only thing that makes them shut up is seeing the pictures of their home and the old scars on their bodies.

I'm not sure what, if anything, finally breaks through their obsessions.

Regardless, they will be spending a long time in prison.