#Clockwork is seething over the fact his boy likes Flash and his time breaking habits

[augustus-rok]

Danny is not human anymore.

His friends don’t quite understand, and the only one who listened when he spoke of it was his sister. Jazz had said that it was only logical that something changed, what with the addition of what is practically a second brain, and that frankly he’s probably more than a ghost too. Vlad, when they play fight(they haven’t truly fought for a while) has spoken on how he isn’t a halfa. At least not in the same way Danny is.

So yes, Danny is not human and is fine with that.

However as he curls like a dark snake around the portal’s tunnel just behind the… gate and safely behind a curtain of glow, Danny wishes in the back of his head he was a little less of what he was. The manual for heroics that was given to Valarie sits dog eared and sticky noted in front of him.

Vlad had said a few days ago that he should just allow anarchy, let the JL learn from their mistake. But Danny came up with a different idea as he stood in Batman’s little research corner of the library.

If he kept doing his job(it’s less a job a a drive of instinct, frankly Danny’s always absolutely pissed when a ghost passes through the Fenton portal but is tolerant of other passages as long as the other ghosts don’t break things.) but turned a little of his aggression against Valarie and the JL. Well, it’s not like ghosts cause property damage severe enough to hinder anyone, and besides the hunters so far worse what with breaking and entering in pursuits. Danny can even make it a rule not to steal. Boxy has a deal with the recycling center and an old warehouse so that problem is gone, most of his usual rouges will be perfectly fine going after Valarie, and his territory challengers well… with the portal secured against humans and ghosts from the Amity side properly?

Danny has them contained and in his perfect battle ground.

Bow or flee. Fuck around and find out, Danny says, pay the door fees.

It’ll be a nice break from playing house with the Observant’s and their rules of challenge. Clockwork agrees that a ten minute head start is fair and it’s the challenger’s faults if they can’t get out of a mortal containment.

So here Danny sits curled behind his portal, purring over the guidebook. He has a couple hours before the mandated check in with the JL authorities watching his family. So he plans a little in his head of exactly what he should do to Valarie. How much of a menace can he be before Sam and Tucker start freaking out.

A murmur of voices in the main lab catches his attention.

“Okay so you think that all this is because of territory disputes? Batman if these creatures are non sentient then that makes no- You can’t be serious six trials? And passing consciousness tests. Damn Bats, that makes those ecto laws contradictory to… yeah okay yeah. I’ll keep an eye out.”

Danny peeks out of the portal to look at Flash who stands with slumped shoulders beyond the newly installed ecto-proof reinforced glass cover.

The man flinches when he spots Phantom, and Danny feels a little sorry for it. The man is good, being so understanding of his family.

He ducks back out of sight of the elder hero. But as he listens to the man do diagnostic checks he slips out of his hiding spot and sets the hero guidelines down on an empty desk behind him, before going out the main door to his kitchen with a tap of the override code he installed long ago.

When he eventually lands in his hotel room and turns back to human he hums in contemplative silence.

He might start by sunning on top of the city hall. Vlad might appreciate a reminder of how eldritch Danny can be.

Danny smirks, he also feels like giving the old man a headache in the form of heroes and paperwork.

Though he does wonder what Flash was talking about with Batman. Oh well, not directly his monkeys.

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I lied a little bit, we get Vlad talk next bit.

Prompt

The justice league FINALLY investigates Amity, and realizes that they’ve made a grave mistake by letting a burgeoning hero shoulder a large problem without any training or support. They rectify this immediately by offering a position in the JL along with an assortment of mentors and other teen heroes to bond with. 

Red Huntress receives this invitation in front of Phantom, while actively trying to hunt him down.