Just a Bunch of Thoughts

During the evacuation of all the people in the pocket dimension, studies were conducted to try and learn more. Lex may have been a traitor but this was a once in a lifetime study even before they had to seal it up to be lost to the space time continuum. As the last sentient being left the mini universe, silence reined the dimension. And then a giggle. Two blue glowing eyes appeared in the dead air, looking to where the last of the people left.

He had been watching the creation of this tiny universe and then the drama unfolding between the bald one and the others that looked soooo different than him. It was interesting to watch the flying one save the tiny one and the dog. It’d been a long time since he’d seen living folk.

The eyes started to fill out with a pale face, a sharp toothed grin, pointed ears and bright white hair that floated in the air. A young boy, looking simultaneously as a young child and a young teenage, appeared, floating. Giggling.

Young-

Ah not anymore.

Old Danny Phantom smiled as he found the new dimension he could watch develop. Heart filling at the sight of heroes.

Yes, it’d been a long time since he’d entertained himself with something that wasn’t millennia old lessons that Grandpappy Clock gave him. He had eons before he’d take the throne.

Even less before they’d stop supervising him creating universes and filling space.

It was time for the old-

Or actually in this case the other was correct-

Izuku learns that Sabo is quirkless but still able to be a hero. His conviction strives Sabo to teach him how to fight until he accidentally unlocks Haki. Now, Izuku is ready to be a hero at UA, still quirkless but manning a new power and a different mentor.

Like I understand that Dick hasn’t super killed anyone, but I have this headcannon that after Jason died and he went ham on Joker, he has this switch that flips in his mind whenever the batfam is threatened seriously. Like they get threats all the time, but when it’s like a serious threat that he knows Batman and the JL would struggle with, he just goes off saying he’s got some important work things to take care of, and just destroys it. He leaves huge world ending threats to the JL but when they appear anywhere close to Gotham or Bludhaven, he’s just like, “yea nah man…you’re too close to my family zone, ima need you to back the fuck up”.

And of course no one knows, he’s just that sneaky and quick. A lot of the bodies in the waters of Gotham and bludhaven are his hidden kills.

Meanwhile, the Batfam gets to the last coordinates where Nightwing was and find his organs in some demented lab and his blood everywhere, not enough for him to survive. And so they arrest the Fenton parents, or try to kill them and call the JLD to take a look at the portal to figure out wtf is happening and where the bodies went. Batman is freaking out and losing it a little.

In the GZ, Nightwing has turned into a ghostly version of his uniform and wakes up. Danny tells him everything and that he’s a halfa now cause the ectoplasm brought him back and they need to go to the far frozen to be looked at. And Nightwing takes the collar off Danny, who turns ghost and they start to fly in that direction. When they get there, it’s discovered that Danny can’t turn back to his OG age, but they can heal Danny. And CW pulls Dick aside and basically asks him to take Danny in cause he’s the ghost king still but now he needs to grow and when he gets healed, he’ll technically have the mentality of a 5 yr old but all the knowledge of his life. And Dick may be like Bats and agrees. So CW calls a Time Out and says that he needs a crash course in being a ghost so he can help Danny. And while in the pocket of time, they learn Dick can make dimension pockets where he can warp reality and control stuff. He can use it to teleport too. They find out he’s got a wind core and he learns how to control that too.

They also meet randomly when Bruce goes on work trips in random countries and cities. They never mention the kids and Danny doesn’t know about Batman. Bruce doesn’t know about Phantom. He just thinks Danny is an engineer that travels for work. Which he is, but he’s also mainly the Ling of the Infinite Realms and appears in other countries and cities bc that’s conveniently where natural portals are spawning.

What Danny doesn’t know is that since he’s taken up the mantle of king, the zone has changed to match him. So it’s much more welcoming and natural portals spawn where Bruce is bc he lowkey is in love with him and just doesn’t realize it. And vice versa, Bruce is lowkey in love with Danny and they fawn over each other when they meet up without realizing that’s what’s happening. But Alfred knows, he’s known for awhile. And so does Jazz.

So when one day, Alfred brings up that Danny is in town in Gotham and Bruce says to set a time for them to meet, one of the kids hear this and they wonder who this Danny is, bc they’ve never heard his name. It becomes a Wayne Mystery when that week, Bruce is out most nights and portions of the day and comes back looking happy and soft. Which freaks everyone out and they stalk Danny and realize they’re meeting each other and this man is someone Bruce cares about a lot. So they bring him up at dinner one day and Bruce is like, oh yea he’s an old friend of mine. And when pressed on why they haven’t heard or met him, Bruce just says that they’ve never brought it up and since Danny isn’t around a lot, and Bruce is a little self aware of himself at this point, doesn’t want this relationship to affect the kids since they aren’t exclusive or together really.

So the kids plot and get Danny to come to the Manor for dinner. They then realize during dinner, watching Bruce and Danny interact, that holy shit, this is their other dad. They’re so in sync that they don’t realize it and he’s so good with the kids too and Bruce is so happy when he’s around…

Cue the batfamily kids Parent Trapping the two, with the help of Alfred who is all for it bc he likes Danny.

In the end, Danny decides to stay at the Manor and the kids can now call him other dad, or pops, or some variation. But they all collectively don’t mention the vigilante side they have, since they all figured it out themselves. Their new dad can do so too. Which then spirals when all of the kids Omar’s out on Patrol, Alfred is on Vacay, and Danny is alone in the house when Talia comes a knocking, bc she knows that Danny has always had Bruce’s heart and wants him gone. She’s always been jealous of their relationship so she tries to kill him. The family realize what’s happened when Damian sees some League members watching them on patrol and they race back home to see Danny decimating the assassins and Talia. He sees the family in their costumes and thinks, oh wow this makes all the sense now.

And they see Danny as a ghost, which Bruce recognizes as Phantom, the first hero!!!! And they all sit down and talk about it.