Rare Crossovers, Rare Pairings, and Homestuck

"Think I'm getting butterflies, but it's really Something telling me to run away" Sub Urban & Bella Poarch

The years go by, and the Anti-ecto Laws that don’t recognize ghosts even animals are still there. And Danny is so tired of it. Even worse, ghost studies are becoming popular. And Danny’s getting sick of it. And he really needs a break. In general, the castle of good old Pariah Dark is potentially a good place to exist, right?

Well, Danny ends up in a perfectly normal civilian family ('cause of СPS or else) in Gotham.

The city is filled with fear, death, and also ectoplasm, which is fine, because it allows Danny not to run into the Ghost Zone for energy for his core. In fact, it’s really strange why so few ghosts are formed in such a comfortable place.

So, a new family. Although the head of family is a billionaire, Danny really wants to give them a chance. Even if he break out in a cold sweat when Bruce looks at him. Well, Fenton blames his past experience. Fuck you, Vlad. Waynes are really nice. And thanks to this adoption he'll be far away from Amity Park, safe from GIW, maybe finally feel like a human being. even if he's not.

So, Danny wants to know about them a little bit more. He has already noticed that Damian collects katanas, Tim is all about hacking, and Jason is obsessed with guns, and Bruce..hm, maybe he need to ask to find out:

Although the treatment is greatly improving his emotional stability and Rage issues, he's not quite ready to forgive Bruce yet. But still, Jason knows Bruce will do everything in his power to help. And when he learns the true depth of the issue, Batman and Bruce both are going to be tearing a warpath trying to fix it. Loathe as Jason is to admit it, Danny would be safer with Bruce, under the care and protection of the Bats, than anywhere else.

Jason’s head was fucking spinning. Last thing he remembered, he was putting his dishes in the sink, and then there was this light, and he felt like he’d been shoved in a too-tight sleeping bag, and now he’s in an ice hotel. He didn’t even know the ice hotels were open right now, and that’s something his family keeps track of, so he’s extra confused.

“Oh— you’re awake!”

Jason has never seen his newest little brother look like this, and he hopes to never see Danny like this again. The kid’s a mess. He’s wringing his hands, and this is when Jason realizes that Danny isn’t wearing a coat. In fact, he’s wearing a t-shirt, and that is not enough. Jason looks down at all the heavy furs and back at his babbling brother. He’s apologizing for something involving kidnapping. Jason grabs Danny by the arm and drags him under all the furs. “Kid, you’re freezing. Can’t this wait?”

Danny was quiet. “…I guess. I just… I knew they were ghost hunters, but I just— I’m really sorry, Jason, I didn’t realize they were collecting dead people! They didn’t hurt you, did they?”

Jason’s head starts spinning extra furiously, like a CD, or a bad laptop’s fans. Danny thought the Waynes had hurt him. Danny thought the Waynes, ghost hunters, had hurt Jason and that they were collecting the dead. “Danny, how did you know I died? We didn’t tell you that.”

Danny froze, and it was almost like holding ice. Jason didn’t move. Instead, he moved on. “Y’know what? Doesn’t matter how you know. Danny, Bruce didn’t hurt me.”

He looks skeptical. “They’re ghost hunters,” He says slowly, like that explains everything. It does not. In fact, it causes more questions, actually, because Danny loved his parents, for all their flaws, and they were ghost hunters. That’s why ghost hunting was the cover— Danny always ran off during ghost fights, so it seemed like a good choice to make him feel safe. Jason’s reassessing that notion. For now though, they need to straighten out this communication screw up, and Bruce can go suck one, because Jason isn’t gonna try and cover for him. “Danny, we told you that because we thought you’d feel safer. We’re not ghost hunters.” The kid relaxes, but is staring at Jason with blatant confusion. “We’re vigilantes. Bruce is Batman.”

This is, somehow, the wrong thing to say.

Danny shoots out of the bed and presses himself against one of the walls, and Jason is about to ask what was wrong when a Yeti walked in.

“Ah! You are awake! Jason Todd, yes? I am your on-call physician at the moment. You may call me Bertha. That is not my actual name,” The fucking Yeti admits, “but it is certainly more human, and the Great One wasn’t very sure if you were aware that you are no longer human.”

Jason chokes. “I’m no longer what?”

Jason: *has so many questions he physically can't ask as they're all trying to ask at once*

And the spirit of the Anti-Ecto Acts is to keep humans safe from evil ghost vermin by destroying or containing the ghosts. It's a good thing Danny doesn't always need to breathe, because breathing isn't happening right now.

This is worse than the Waynes just being weirdo rich people hobbyist ghost hunters. It's worse than Bruce just being a dead people collecting Fruitloop.

He's Batman. Incredibly competent, famously 'plan for everything' Justice League leader.

How long have the Waynes been collecting liminals and ghostly dead people to hand over to the GIW after observation? What about his famously 'obsessively' mentally ill Rogues? Are some of them ghostly too? Were they mistaken as ghosts and so treated like such? Is Arkham a front for a ghost research lab??

Jason is sitting, frozen and panicking when he hears wheezing from behind him. He sees Danny in the throws (throes?) Of a panic attack and just... autopilot semi-reboot by focusing on the one (1) thing he can do *right now* - help danny breathe again.

"Aw fuck, shit. Shh shhh shhhhhhh. Its ok. Fuck. I've got you. Can you breathe for me?"

Frostbite approaches to find Danny emotionally exhausted from fear, worry and panic and his older brother similarly worn out from confusion, dread and guilt.

"Great One, what is wrong? I was certain your mood would improve once your new brother was on the road to recovery. Did something else bring you to the Far Frozen?"

"Frostbite! It's... Bruce said that my new family is all ghost hunters, so when I realized Jason was dead too... I couldn't just... and now Jason says it's just a cover for Bruce and he's really Batman. Frostbite, he's part of the Justice League and they cooperate with the government. That means the GIW. I just... Mom & Dad already hate me, so the thought of what collecting the undead means... I couldn't... I had to save Jason, Frsorbite, I had to! I already don't know if I'll ever see Jazz again, I couldn't let him be hurt."

"Slow down, Great One. Last I knew things were going well with your new family. What has changed?"

"Wait one damn moment. Danny, what in Jane Austen's name are you talking about? Why do you make the Justice League sound like a bad thing, what even is the GIW?"

Danny started sputtering. "But- how can Batman not know? The GIW said that by the time the set up shop in Amity the Anti Ecto acts had been official law for months. If they were lying or the Justice League doesn't know about them or the laws making the experimentation or extermination of ghosts mandatory why didn't they ever respond?"

This made Jason remember Tim's complaints about something being weird about communications going in and out of Amity Park. "I'm starting to put the pieces together and I do not like where this is going. Let's forget about that mystery until Babs and Timberly can do some digging. Danny what does any of this have to do with why you're so scared and why you kidnapped me seemingly for my own safety?"

Danny then remembered a series of scandals and near disasters when he was a kid regarding a secret government organization called Cadmus. He didn't think something similar would happen twice but then again you could say the rise of the Meta Protection Acts and the ruling that aliens and Atlanteans were also protected under them count as two other occasions right? Something in him settled for the first time in months, maybe years. He still winced internally at having to EXPLAIN his deal- Sam and Tucker had been there every step of the way and every one else figured it out themselves saw him transform. But now that he was less scared his ghostly instincts were much more at ease than he himself was- so he took a leap of faith.

"This is kinda a long story but I'll try to start at the beginning. How much do you actually know about my p- the Fentons' work?"

"Other than that they hunt ghosts? Only that they established the creation of a tiny but still official ghost studies department when they were in university and that when they were having trouble finding backers for their research they branched into unrelated studies long enough to get the resulting inventions patented to fund Fenton Works that way." Jason admitted. "Most of the records are chaotic, confused or strangely hard to find. B didn't even realize who you are until Alfred realized "Jazz" is short for Jasmine. Once he did know he was hoping for a while that you could be a good source of science based information about ghosts- he hates calling on Constantine or ending up feeling indebted to the members of JL Dark he counts as friends."

"He... wanted to learn more about ghosts... from ME. Despite being considered the dumb Fenton." Danny repeated incredulously, finally starting to understand why most of his new family and the small number of Bruce's friends he'd met called the man a disaster. "Why didn't he ever ask? Because now that we're clearing things up I feel like multiple panic attacks and arguments about whether I could see or at least talk to Jazz and my friends could've been avoided."

"B's spent so many years building his reputation as 'the world's greatest detective' he forgets asking questions before jumping into research is an option unless he already has a trusted expert to fall back on. And where magic and the supernatural are concerned he avoids the expert like the plague if that means talking to Constantine." Jason deadpans. "Then his research turned up how every time you've been sighted near a ghost attack you're the first person to run. The family's consensus was that you must be scared of ghosts so he decided a cover of being amateur ghost hunters would make you feel safer."

Danny winced. "Okay I can see that. So this actually goes all the way back to that exact part of their university days you mentioned, back when they were working with Vlad Masters..."

Danny for the first time ever told his story. How things started back when Jack, Maddie and Vlad decided the best way make real progress in their research was to be able to access what they eventually coined the "Ghost Zone". How it had been their priority project ever since... even prioritizing it above being parents. How right when they thought they finally had it completed it didn't work. How naturally, his friends insisted on seeing it when they had the he house to themselves and he saw no reason to say no. An innocent attempt at a cool photo resulting in an accident that both changed and technically ended his life. How he got his start fighting ghosts and every major change to his reputation or his dynamics with either the citizens of Amity Park or the ghosts who usually started off as his own Rogues Gallery. Vlad's role once he showed back up. And how the GIW went from a joke ran by buffoons with worse aim than Jack to the biggest threat after they built a base with in Amity Park city limits. A threat who still had field agents that made Jack look like a badass and were such nuisances only Jack and Maddie liked them yet managed to become ghosts' worst nightmare when they got lucky.

How right after Jazz left for college Danny's refusal to continue his parents' ghost hunting lessons and his lack of hatred of ghosts resulted in one of the Accidental Reveal scenarios from his nightmares. How it ended with him in the foster care system instead of on a dissection table. And the exact thought process behind Danny's eventual impression that Bruce was collecting ecto entities or working with the GIW.

For a moment Jason's eyes flashed green. "Normally I'd want to kill whoever is behind those MIB wannabes but I think I'd rather see what Diana does to them."

"Who?"

everyone lives AU in which, 10 years or so after chara first falls into the underground, reports begin to surface of another human roaming the ruins... and of course prince asriel can't leave well enough alone.

(bonus: their respective punishments)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PORTAL 2!!! 🍰

I miss them so bad