Name is Sean

-Optimus is shocked but part of him, one he won't say out loud, is excited so see a new cybertronian for the first time in so long, even if they used to be human. Comforts his friend by telling them that why their body is different, their soul is still the same. He is incredibly gentle with them as he helps them navigate in their new frame, linking their arms together as they get used to walking again and explaining what the different notifications in their HUD means. Wants to take his time helping them adapt, let them calm down before he throws everything at them.

-First things first, Ratchet is giving them a full frame exam. They might look like another cybertronian but who knows how they internals look like? Luckily, even their internal mechanisms are have fully turned into that of a cybertronian so they appear completely healthy. Now that that is out of the way, he gives them datapads to read about how to take care of their personal hygiene and so on. If they have any questions they are welcome to ask him but he don't think he'll be the best one to emotionally help them adjust to their new frame.

-Bumblebee is worried how you're taking this change. When he lost his voice, he felt like he lost a part of his identity, but to lose your body and get a completely new one? He can't imagine the identity crisis that may cause. Tries to help them adjust by showing them the great things about being a cybertronian. If they have a vehicle alt mode then he will show them how to transform and race. There's nothing like the feeling of speeding down a highway after all.

-Part of Bulkhead wonders if this bot is still the same person as his friend. When every part of you is replaced, is it still you? Still, he'll support them with everything he's got, new person or not. After they get comfortable and used to their new body, he'll teach them how to fight and deal some serious damage. While he doesn't want them to face any con in battle he knows that it might be inevitable. Best they know how to defend themself, just in case.

Remember in the first episode that Raf had a remote controlled car? Yeah, that's kinda how the bots get around in public, by pretending to be toys controlled by the kids. The kids start a fake club called "Remote Vehicle Enthusiast Club" as a cover.

When someone happens to see the bots in root mode then the kids will lie and say they created a new club, the "Model Robot Figurine Club".

When Starscream loses his t-cog he steals an actual remote controlled car and uses it to get around faster. Meanwhile, when Bumblebee loses his t-cog, he uses a skateboard.

Cat sized predacons! Miko meets Predaking and tries to lift him like you would a cat but releases him when he starts retaliating with fire.

Fowler still gets captured and interrogated by the cons except it's way less intimidating when he's the one looking down at his captors.

G1 is a whole goofy different kettle of fish. A none grumpy ratchet who likes to gossip with his Wheeljack and coparents the Dinobots with him. An Optimus trying to gentle parent an army and the humans a little bit. Bumblebee and spike being the bestest buds ever and sharing the brain cell. Soft spoken second in command prowl who could use a vacation (maybe with his conjux jazz).

Also G1 decepticons being the single most dysfunctional bunch held together by only Soundwave and shockwave’s sheer determination and dedication. Starscream being his immortal bitch self blatantly betraying people but for some reason is still a decepticon.

G1 Optimus trying to mentor TFA Optimus because he took one look at that dude and went "Poor little fella, he's got anxiety :(". So he tries to approach TFA!Op to give some well intentioned advice and one of his trademarked dramatic speeches but TFA!Op is so intimidated by this more successful version of himself that he starts blatantly avoiding him.

Meanwhile, G1 and TFA Megatron are trying to not to kill each other because they know that if they collaborated, they could maybe take over the TFA version of Cybertron, but they just hate each other so much, they are so passive aggressive against each other.

"You first, Megatron."

"Oh no, you first. And please, it's lord Megatron to you."

"Is that so? I just keep forgetting. Silly me."

G1 is a whole goofy different kettle of fish. A none grumpy ratchet who likes to gossip with his Wheeljack and coparents the Dinobots with him. An Optimus trying to gentle parent an army and the humans a little bit. Bumblebee and spike being the bestest buds ever and sharing the brain cell. Soft spoken second in command prowl who could use a vacation (maybe with his conjux jazz).

Also G1 decepticons being the single most dysfunctional bunch held together by only Soundwave and shockwave’s sheer determination and dedication. Starscream being his immortal bitch self blatantly betraying people but for some reason is still a decepticon.

G1 Optimus trying to mentor TFA Optimus because he took one look at that dude and went "Poor little fella, he's got anxiety :(". So he tries to approach TFA!Op to give some well intentioned advice and one of his trademarked dramatic speeches but TFA!Op is so intimidated by this more successful version of himself that he starts blatantly avoiding him.

Meanwhile, G1 and TFA Megatron are trying to not to kill each other because they know that if they collaborated, they could maybe take over the TFA version of Cybertron, but they just hate each other so much, they are so passive aggressive against each other.

"You first, Megatron."

"Oh no, you first. And please, it's lord Megatron to you."

"Is that so? I just keep forgetting. Silly me."

Reactions of both Autobots and Decepticons to knowing he saved TFP Optimus instead of becoming the new Chosen One of Cybertron, please.

(Smokescreen: It's no big deal. Anyone could have done the same. Sentinel "my comatose boss/mentor is great propaganda" Prime and Starcream: . . .Yeahhh, totally.)

-Immediately, Optimus admires Smokescreen. Yes, he's loud and a bit brash but he's a good mech, someone who values others more than he cares about his own reputation and power. After this, Optimus finds himself getting closer to Smokescreen, as he now sees him as someone he can trust and rely on.

-Ratchet had originally found Smokescreen to be yet just another loud youth, scrambling for fame, but after this admission, he finds himself reassessing his view on the mech. Clearly he's got a good head on his shoulders, even if he kinda childish.

-Bumblebee feels a bit guilty because he's not sure he would have done the same in Smokescreen's situation. He hopes that he would but the idea of fame and power is really tempting, which doesn't sound very heroic now that he thinks about. Feels bad about it and kinda stays away from both Smokescreen and his own Optimus because of this.

-To Bulkhead, this makes Smokescreen as a real hero and an overall great person. He put the life of his friend above his own desires which makes him super cool! Bulkhead already liked Smokescreen from the get-go so this just elevated his already high opinion of him.

-Yeah, Prowl already got that feeling from him, back when they first met. Sure, Smokescreen is loud and, in many ways, immature, but he gives off this honest aura that makes one want to trust him. He does not feel like a selfish person. Still, Prowl only fully allows himself to trust Smokescreen after this revelation.

where after a few centuries of boredom, Danny gets a sudden influx of college student worshippers but it's not too worrying since all the offerings he's gotten so far are just different snacks ranging from crackers to a full bowl of mac n cheese. Without any other options, he goes to the only halfa he knows who had finally settle down from dimension travelling to studying in a dimension where she knows the people wouldn't need an extra helping hands of a hero.

King Danny "get me out off paperwork" Phantom: Heya Dani, do you know if something happened that resulted in mass worshipping?

Danielle "I built a shrine of my brother in the empty storage closet of my dorm building to see if it would work" Phantom: gee golly I have no clue on what could have happened to result in that

Words tend to spread really fast especially when it comes to tired students who has nothing else to lose. Besides, after leaving a a potato chip on the creepy looking shrine in the storage room and feeling a strange wave of calm/relaxed/focus and passing that paper you've been struggling with for the whole year, who wouldn't keep doing it and leave even more snacks.

Next thing you know there'll be a creepy little shrine piled with snacks on top of it in empty storage rooms of different college and universities. Eventually the students find out what to call their entity of calm after one claimed to left their notebook in the storage only to find a little scribble that says Phantom in that slightly glowing and possibly toxic green ink.

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In hindsight, Tim should have probably stayed at home and rest after staying up all night finishing a paper due the day after tomorrow but Bruce had asked if he wanted to tag along the JL meeting with the JLD because of... whatever it was Bruce mentioned so who in their right mind would say no to that. So now here he was half listening to the banter meeting about some eldritch entity that could be a threat to humanity and what offering should they provide to complete the summoning. Of course after hearing a familiar name of his preferred deity of submitting papers on time, the delirious boy never even registered what he said.

Tim "barely conscious on his 11th cup of Pedro Pascal's Starbucks order" Drake: Phantom?? give 'em poptart... green flavour...

My own idea is that it’s all the same, up until the part on Tim, it changes to this: Tim isn’t there and the school accidentally become Phantoms first cult, one day Poison Ivy or someone attacks the school and Danny goes CRAZY, no one, NO ONE, attacks the kids that give him snacks! He’s fought Undergrowth and he won, he can beat Poison Ivy (who survived the same chemicals that killed Undergrowth). The school is cheering because they recognise the guy from the picture in the 4th floor bathroom who they give stuff from the vending machine in return for good grades, Phantom flies down to them because why not and looks at the astronomy stuff written on the board

He helps them with all their homework even of it means calling in other ghosts, knocks them out the minute they get into bed (the insomniacs love him), tells people if their crushes like them back, he makes sure non of them slip when stuff freezes over in winter, he makes it snow when it’s too hot in summer, he uses ecto to turn trans people to their correct gender, and in return they give him junk food. Even when people graduate, if their parents don’t show up or aren’t supportive Danny’ll be there cheering them on, he makes sure no one messes with his students, a few even go on to open bakeries or restaurants and give him everything that doesn’t sell and occasionally freshly baked treats if they need extra help/luck, no one who’s not a student at this one particular school knows about this, and every rouge is scared of that school, what goes on in it’s halls? (Parties dedicated to their patron god that’s what, you know he can stick 20 cups on his tail?)

Wait, but combine the two.

Tim: oh yeah, he likes stuff like X, X, and/or X

Constantine: why do you know what the ghost king likes?

Tim: ghost king???? The guy we hold parties for and who lets us pass our exams is the ghost king?!?!?!?!?

Constantine: you must be thinking of someone else! High King Phantom of--

where after a few centuries of boredom, Danny gets a sudden influx of college student worshippers but it's not too worrying since all the offerings he's gotten so far are just different snacks ranging from crackers to a full bowl of mac n cheese. Without any other options, he goes to the only halfa he knows who had finally settle down from dimension travelling to studying in a dimension where she knows the people wouldn't need an extra helping hands of a hero.

King Danny "get me out off paperwork" Phantom: Heya Dani, do you know if something happened that resulted in mass worshipping?

Danielle "I built a shrine of my brother in the empty storage closet of my dorm building to see if it would work" Phantom: gee golly I have no clue on what could have happened to result in that

Words tend to spread really fast especially when it comes to tired students who has nothing else to lose. Besides, after leaving a a potato chip on the creepy looking shrine in the storage room and feeling a strange wave of calm/relaxed/focus and passing that paper you've been struggling with for the whole year, who wouldn't keep doing it and leave even more snacks.

Next thing you know there'll be a creepy little shrine piled with snacks on top of it in empty storage rooms of different college and universities. Eventually the students find out what to call their entity of calm after one claimed to left their notebook in the storage only to find a little scribble that says Phantom in that slightly glowing and possibly toxic green ink.

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In hindsight, Tim should have probably stayed at home and rest after staying up all night finishing a paper due the day after tomorrow but Bruce had asked if he wanted to tag along the JL meeting with the JLD because of... whatever it was Bruce mentioned so who in their right mind would say no to that. So now here he was half listening to the banter meeting about some eldritch entity that could be a threat to humanity and what offering should they provide to complete the summoning. Of course after hearing a familiar name of his preferred deity of submitting papers on time, the delirious boy never even registered what he said.

Tim "barely conscious on his 11th cup of Pedro Pascal's Starbucks order" Drake: Phantom?? give 'em poptart... green flavour...

Later

That is something Danny has even more experience with, and Tim gets visited by a frantically fussing eldritch protection spirit the next time he visits the shrine.

He had barely put down the cookie (Alfred's chocolate-chip and cranberries) when Danny simply whisks him away to somewhere they can talk in private. Then they have a very serious discussion about the reality and special hardships of being a teenage hero.

Tim is mildly said confused and somewhat alarmed at having his civilian and hero identities linked like this, but after he catch on to Danny's somewhat garbled story about being a high-school age hero he starts to understand where Phantom comes from - even if he mistakenly gets the impression that Phantom was a teenage hero before his death.

The idea that Phantom is the ghost of a teenage hero - a hero who died young and who now is determined to make sure others don't suffer his fate, is a motivation Tim can understand. He imagines he would do the same if he ended up in that situation, no matter how tragic the circumstances are. Which just serves to even more firmly place Phantom in the 'friendly entity' category in Tim's mind.

Meanwhile Danny gets Tim to promise to ask him for help if he or other teenage heroes are in trouble, and Phantom switches over to being a Patron for both Tired Students and Young Heroes before the conversation is even over with.

Tim spreads the word about this protective former hero spirit that's willing to help to his friends. They appreciates the study help, but especially tends to ask for sleep free from nightmares, which is hard to come by for many heroes.

(Danny had to turn to Nocturne to learn how to grant this, but the Ancient of Dreams folded rather quickly when a determined Phantom showed up and asked for lessons - the dream ghost knew better than to stand between a powerful Protection spirit and its charges).

Soon a small shrine to Phantom was put up in Titan Tower and it became a routine for people to leave a small snack there while asking for minor help.

Though... Jason had to say? Being dragged to the afterlife for a health check? Was not one of the things he thought would happen. Being told he was now considered liminal? And sort of ghostly now? Made so much sense. The lack of new pit rage episodes? Yeah he's now a follower. He's just not going to say anything.

Danny then went to secretly check over the rest of the heroes. And uh. Yeah that's a lot of corrupted Ecto huh... Well that's very much a him job. Bruce doesn't know how to feel about the fact that all the Lazarus pits are gone now. Well. All but his. Which is now... Very different. Still works the same. But it's less... Angry? When Tim casually drops that his patron spirit did this? He would like to meet him please!

Cue MASSIVE FUCK OFF ELDRITCH HORROR appearing over the school

Goons: 😱☠️

Students:🫵😧

Batman, who showed up like 10 seconds after danny: 🦇🙄

Danny: O̷h̴ ̴H̴e̴l̸l̷o̴ ̵B̷a̷t̴m̴a̸n̴ ̵I̷ ̸a̸p̵o̴l̴o̷g̷i̵z̶e̸ ̴f̸o̷r̷ ̶i̵n̸t̶r̷u̸d̴i̴n̶g̶ ̷u̵p̶o̶n̷ ̸y̸o̸u̶r̵ ̵h̵a̴u̵n̵t̶ ̷b̵u̸t̴ ̷m̷y̴ ̸s̸t̵u̷d̴e̴n̷t̷ ̷c̶u̴l̵t̶ ̶c̸a̸l̴l̶e̶d̷ ̴f̶o̵r̸ ̴m̷e̷.̸ ̷I̷ ̵w̶i̵l̵l̵ ̶n̵o̴t̸ ̵o̵v̵e̶r̸s̶t̸a̸y̶ ̷m̵y̵ ̸w̶e̴l̶c̶o̶m̵e̸.̴ ̸

Batman: Your… student cult.

Danny: I̸ ̶d̸o̴ ̵n̶o̸t̸ ̴k̵n̴o̵w̶ ̴h̷o̶w̵ ̵t̸h̶i̶s̸ ̵h̴a̶p̸p̸e̵n̴e̷d̸.̸ ̵I̷ ̴w̷a̴s̴ ̴t̴o̸o̷ ̸b̶u̷s̴y̷ ̵b̵e̶i̶n̸g̷ ̸d̴e̷a̶d̶ ̷f̸o̸r̴ ̸c̶o̶l̴l̶e̵g̶e̵.̶ ̵T̴h̵e̸y̸ ̶f̷e̸e̵d̵ ̷m̴e̴ ̸g̸r̵e̶e̸n̷,̵ ̴I̴ ̸g̴r̴a̸n̸t̵ ̸p̷e̵a̸c̵e̸ ̴o̶f̸ ̷m̸i̵n̵d̷.̷ ̸I̸ ̶l̷o̴v̸e̶ ̷t̵h̸e̴m̷.̵ ̷B̷u̶t̵ ̴I̶ ̶a̸m̷ ̶m̶uc̷h̵ ̴m̶o̶r̸e̸ ̵s̴u̷i̶t̶e̵d̸ ̴f̵o̴r̸ ̶t̴h̷i̶s̴.̵ ̶

Batman: For… this?

Danny, growing teeth as they speak, approaching the joker with Intent: Ĭ̷̜̖͚͙̞̥͔̤̘͎̩̻̲̱̎̉͛̾́͠ ̸̨̨̧̨̧̦̮͖̖̳͓͙̜̩̤͕̞̓̓̿̈̏̾̌̎̈́̈́̚͘̕̕H̸̺͈͍̟̟̲̱͖̖̜͕́̆́͜A̸̲͕̯̬̭̿̋͊̃͌̈̆͘͜T̴̟̼̲̖̰̻̪͑́̾͜E̶͕͈͖͉̿̽ͅ ̴̧̨̛̯̭̘͙̟̜̤̦̬͌̓̃̓̈́̉̽̿̋͗̌́͋̉̈́̕C̵̳̣̭͎̝̦̘̟̺̬͈͇̼̹̖̘̥̆̂̏̾͋͘L̴̡̹̦̠̗̮̰̝̦̼̤͔̥̤̳͗̄̃́̔̚O̴̗̦̲͈̎͂W̷̘͑̏̇̿̍̄̅̇͜N̷͉̎̄̈S̵̡̛͕̦̳̥̝̺̤̆̈́͋͊͌̿̈́̓͘̚͝͝

(Plain danny text 1: Oh, hello batman. I apologize for intruding upon your haunt, but my student cult called for me. I will not overstay my welcome.

2: I do not know how this happened. I was too busy being dead for college. But, they feed me green, I grant peace of mind. I love them. But I am much more suited for this.

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CRUNCH!

Danny swallows the Joker in one go, the dumbest clown tastes like shit and cruelty, but he's gone now, Danny's students are safe, so he gives a little wave and-

RIIIIIIP!

There is now a whole in the fabric of space. Fuck portals, this shits is literally terrifying.

Danny steps through and closes it behind him.

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.

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C: What the FUCK is that

RR: Its a shrine to Phantom :3 he helps me get good grades :3

C: Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope I am OUT

where after a few centuries of boredom, Danny gets a sudden influx of college student worshippers but it's not too worrying since all the offerings he's gotten so far are just different snacks ranging from crackers to a full bowl of mac n cheese. Without any other options, he goes to the only halfa he knows who had finally settle down from dimension travelling to studying in a dimension where she knows the people wouldn't need an extra helping hands of a hero.

King Danny "get me out off paperwork" Phantom: Heya Dani, do you know if something happened that resulted in mass worshipping?

Danielle "I built a shrine of my brother in the empty storage closet of my dorm building to see if it would work" Phantom: gee golly I have no clue on what could have happened to result in that

Words tend to spread really fast especially when it comes to tired students who has nothing else to lose. Besides, after leaving a a potato chip on the creepy looking shrine in the storage room and feeling a strange wave of calm/relaxed/focus and passing that paper you've been struggling with for the whole year, who wouldn't keep doing it and leave even more snacks.

Next thing you know there'll be a creepy little shrine piled with snacks on top of it in empty storage rooms of different college and universities. Eventually the students find out what to call their entity of calm after one claimed to left their notebook in the storage only to find a little scribble that says Phantom in that slightly glowing and possibly toxic green ink.

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In hindsight, Tim should have probably stayed at home and rest after staying up all night finishing a paper due the day after tomorrow but Bruce had asked if he wanted to tag along the JL meeting with the JLD because of... whatever it was Bruce mentioned so who in their right mind would say no to that. So now here he was half listening to the banter meeting about some eldritch entity that could be a threat to humanity and what offering should they provide to complete the summoning. Of course after hearing a familiar name of his preferred deity of submitting papers on time, the delirious boy never even registered what he said.

Tim "barely conscious on his 11th cup of Pedro Pascal's Starbucks order" Drake: Phantom?? give 'em poptart... green flavour...

Did Danny abuse the fact the GIW needed his parents tech. Yes of course. Danny not phantom seemed to be the trouble maker as of late. His parent threatened to withhold tech and blue prints from them if the GIW touched their kids.

Did he get caught breaking ember and boxy out of a government facility? yes. He expected the lecture he got.

The next jail break. It was not him. It was sam, Then the third. Also not him. That was Val… then it was Tucker. But not him.

The blame fell on him.

He did not expect to be shipped out of state. The GIW were happy to cover all costs. Even got him into a decent highschool. And had an apartment all arranged.

Gotham?

Not where he was expecting.

The assassination attempts. Also surprising.

Not so surprising. Tucker found out the GIW wanted to “silence” him. Offering a lot of money.

Danny's got it down to a science at this point. It barely takes him a week to get back home. (Except for the time the dimension he landed in was in the stone age, but we don't talk about that.)

Step 1 was easy enough, if involuntary. Now, step 2 is where it's all going wrong.

This dimension's language isn't one he speaks. That's fine, maybe adds a day or two to the search for parts, but the main problem is the people dressed in Halloween costumes, speaking like they're from a Shakespearean play who always find him and wreck his portal.

And it's not like he can just move to a different city, this one's soaked in ectoplasm. He'd have to spend a pretty fair amount of time searching for another place as saturated as this one.

Meanwhile, the Bats are not having a good time. Some League or League-adjacent member speaking a barely intelligible form of the League dialect keeps attempting to build some sort of weapon in Gotham, and refuses all communication in English.