Transfer Student Danny Fenton is Accidentally Bonded to Gotham Itself and Damian Wayne Is Not Handling It Well
Danny Fenton transfers into Gotham Academy with paperwork that looks like it was filled out during a power outage and an emergency contact that may or may not answer calls. Heβs quiet in class, terrible at lying, and keeps pausing mid-conversation like heβs listening to something no one else can hear.
Damian decides within five minutes that this is suspicious.
Things get worse when electronics start glitching around Danny. Lights flicker when he walks into a room. Security systems fail exactly when he leans on them. During lab, he touches a live wire and the current just disappears like it got bored and left.
Danny insists thatβs normal.
It is not.
Then thereβs the sparring incident where a hit phases through him for half a second. Danny stares at his own hands like theyβve personally betrayed him. Damian stares like heβs about to start a full investigation.
Danny starts asking weird questions after that.
βHypothetically, if a city was aliveβ¦ how would you know?β
Damian does not answer hypothetical questions. He answers by gathering evidence.
Patterns emerge. Crime scenes with unexplained malfunctions. Criminals reporting that buildings βtold them to leave.β Streetlights flickering in sequences that almost look intentional. Gotham behaving less like a place and more like something that is paying attention.
And always, Danny is nearby.
The realization hits in stages.
Danny isnβt causing the disturbances.
Gotham is reacting to him.
Danny, meanwhile, is having a completely different problem. Because the city isnβt just reacting. Itβs communicating. Not in words, not exactly, but in pressure, in sound, in the way old structures groan like theyβre trying to be understood.
And somehow, Danny understands.
He stands on rooftops at night like heβs listening. Answers under his breath like someone asked a question. Gets distracted mid-conversation because a building across the street βsaid something important.β
Damian follows him once. Watches him tilt his head at a flickering streetlight and nod like it made a valid point.
This is unacceptable.
Because Gotham is supposed to be something you protect.
Not something that picks favorites.
Damian does not like that Gotham has chosen a half-feral transfer student with no sense of normal human limitations.
Danny does not like that Gotham is getting louder.
Neither of them are prepared for the moment when Gotham stops whispering and starts asking for help.
And Danny is the only one who can answer,
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