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unadulteratedsoulsweets · 9 months ago

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A DC X DP IDEA #30

Salvage Tomorrow.

Imagine dis...

Every flash who has ever gone back in time tried to make the future a little bit better. From the main Flash Barry Allen to his future grandchild, Bart Allen. But he came from a desolate future, a future of ruins. He may have the power from the original Flash but it had been watered down, he may be fast but not as fast as the fastest man in the world, so the question is…

How did he come back to the past?

He did not have enough energy or power to travel through the speed force and through time to safely arrive in the past without disintegrating himself… So how?

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Danny Fenton also known as “Phantom” was thrust into another mission by Clockwork but instead of his usual errands where he needs to retrieve something, this time he needs to ensure a certain event must happen.

When Danny asked which point of time he would be sent Clockwork admitted that he would be sent to the future where Dan came from.

That startled Danny because as far as he is concerned the future is now gone and the main event where Dan is formed has been avoided, also Dan is slowly mellowing out and he is very sure Dan developed a soft spot for him. Clockwork sensing his ward’s question chose to open a portal to that timeline and began to explain. There is another event that must take place just as after Dan goes back in time just to ensure he was made, a speedster was supposed to travel back in time to prevent another major apocalypse and he needed a bit of help.

Clockwork also suggested Dan to come along, Dan is a bit skeptical since he left an impression on the remaining humans. Danny assured him that he could do this alone and he had done it multiple times. Dan just snarked back that Danny might be attacked and it would be a shame if he died from a puny human.

With much more arguing Danny was sent back to the past to help the Flash at the time to go back in the past.

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When Danny gets to the end of the portal, The scene surrounding him is eerie, with degradation and ruins that represent the once-thriving society that he remembers. Collapsed buildings and overgrown plants litter the streets, showing the remnants of a once-thriving community. Danny can practically taste the ash that clung in the air.

There he was, He couldn't help but wince at the future that his future self did, no wonder the Observants wanted him dead the moment Danny gained his ghostly powers. He can barely sense any living being as for the undead one, immediately cleared out of his way the moment he even breathed in his direction. Using invisibility he flew to the nearest human camp that he had sensed after 3 days of exploring for any signs of life. According to Dan, Danny remembers, that he knew there was a small group of humans who survived the initial killings and tried to hide from him

He saw that the majority of them were civilians living off the scraps they had found in the ruins of their cities. Some were trying to plant some seedlings into the soil, but Dan had poisoned the soil with ectoplasm as a form of a slow execution or some sort. All of them are weary and vigilant as if Dan would come back any moment to finish them off.

Of course, Danny can't just stroll there, from the way they tense they would run off any minute plus he didn't know which one would go to the past.

At first, he started off helping them in terms of small things like if they were a bit cold during the night a few more blankets would appear. They were running out of drinkable water, a trail suddenly appeared towards a small creak that wasn't infected by the ectoplasm.

At first, everyone was able to brush it off as a stroke of luck but then the remaining heroes or those who have a connection to the said former heroes began to doubt the sudden gifts they tried to catch the person giving them gifts but it took a child’s laughter to catch their invisible helper.

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Danny was just dropping off another small batch of supplies hidden a few feet away from the main group so that when they went exploring they could find the said supplies. The group for exploration left the camp leaving with a few children who had survived along with some young adults to watch over the said kids. One of the kids began crying as if their situation finally sunk in, Danny who was still invisible tried to comfort the child but it was then the group to explore went back and Danny forgot to turn on his invisibility, Let us just say panic ensued.

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After the entire fiasco of yelling, shouting, fear, and screaming they can talk civilly to each other after a few weeks of Danny proving himself further that he is not Dan despite looking like a smaller carbon copy of the man.

Danny didn't want his relationship with Dan to be known so he let them draw their conclusion, he heard from afar that they were slowly trying to trust him as if he was truly Dan they would have killed them already since Dan broadcasted his fight, do you even call a massacre a fight? To enjoy their screams.

Danny was too elated to hear the good news that he missed their conclusion of him being Dan’s son who is trying to do good despite their father being the cause of such an apocalypse.

A Bat, from the insignia etched to their chest, finally interrogated Danny on why is he there and Danny homestyle told them that he could be a battery. At first, a flash of surprise etched on their face then went back to their neutral form. The said Bat member asked how Danny knew, Danny evaded the question and proceeded to insist that he could help whomever they were sending to the past since not only they are missing the needed parts to their machine but they also needed a battery powerful enough to power up the machine.

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After a much-needed trade and interrogation, they finally decided to let Danny help. With Danny’s expertise, they were able to finish the pod to let one of them travel back in time. Bart Allen was chosen as not only he is a speedster but when it comes to the delicate balance of time travel the Flash’es are the ones to handle it.

Just as they fire the pod that contains Bart, Dan suddenly appears looking grimly at the group, Danny, and the machine. Bart’s final moments before he was sent to the past were the horrified looks from the group that protected him and Danny’s scared/grimacing face at the face of Dan.

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The last remaining group of humans slowly disappears as a result of Bart’s change in the timeline. The Bat looks at Danny with a determined look trying to blurt out codes to Danny that if he ever needed help the Bats in the past should recognize the code.

Bart and The Last Bat can’t help but get close to the ghost boy who despite his father tries to do good.

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As the last human disappeared Danny can’t help but blurt out to Dan that it was hard to gain their trust, and that’s why he was late. Dan just rolled his eyes and told Danny that he was there to fetch him since this timeline was about to vanish. Danny the ever petulant child let Dan drag him by the collar to the portal as he watched the reality he knew for a few weeks gain cracks and destroy itself.

Surely Danny thought, he would never see Bart again. He had been Phantom since he was 14 and it had been 3 years since his accident and there had been no contact from Bart.

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Meanwhile, Bart has been trying to find a Phantom ever since he went back in time. As if the universe is against him when it comes to trying to find Danny, something is at foot and needs his full attention. During his mission, the theory ��Phanton is the son of Dan” solidified when he saw multiple cave paintings and even mentioned Dan. Which made Dan old enough to procreate.

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It was a mission gone wrong that reunited the two. Bart along with Kon and Tim on a usual mission to bust some villain's butt, but of course when things got too well things went sideways, and able to kidnap them.

Opening his eyes, Bart took a good look around him, he was cuffed with anti-meta cuffs that dampened the powers of metas who committed a crime. He along with his teammates are all tied up in some sort of Occult Ritual for the Lazarus pits. Bart joked to Tim also known as Red Robin that this only happens in Gotham and they were states away from Gotham. Tim who is looking at their predicament with seriousness chose to ignore Bart. Bart looked a bit bored and thought that this must be a good idea to page Danny.

As the cult group tries their botched pronunciation of Esperanto, Bart who is known as a man of science just like the original Flash and Wally, clears his throat and begins chanting alongside the cultists. As the mist suddenly invaded the room, ice began sprouting from the floor trapping the cultist inside of them.

Both Red Robin and Superboy are now on the edge seeing the cultists were able to summon something and Bart is now smiling across his cheeks since he recognizes that ice anywhere.

Bart yelled out to Danny in the mist, both Red Robin and Superboy were now looking at him with surprised looks as someone responded to Bart. A white-haired teen wearing royal regalia from his head to his boots with glowing green eyes reminded Tim of the Lazarus pits.

The mysterious white-haired teen greeted Bart tiredly as seen from the deep eyebags below his eyes. Bart immediately went to chatter Danny’s ears off as Danny tried to free them from their bindings. Just as Bart excitedly introduced Danny to his friends, Danny immediately went alert and told them to hide immediately. Tim and Conner who are still distrusting Danny, suddenly yelped at Bart as he dragged them to hide behind one of the ice pillars.

Tim the ever detective tried to ask what was going on and Bart just hushed them with an attitude that they had never seen from the time-traveling teen. A green glowing portal appeared behind Danny and what emerged made Bart’s face turn paper white.

Tim has questions about what is happening and opts to stay quiet and observe. Bart whom Tim knew as cheerful, chatty, and optimistic about the dire situation suddenly went quiet and began to fear whomever appeared behind “Danny’s” back.

The thing that emerged from behind Danny is a larger, buffer version. Of himself with a few details and traits missing from their savior to the newcomer. Danny tensed and asked why is he there and the new commer smirked grabbed “Danny” by the collar and dragged “Danny” towards the portal while “Danny” was weakly protesting.

The moment the portal disappeared Bart looked in the direction where their savior had been dragged off with a mix of confusion and dread and immediately barked at Kon to break the cuffs that hindered his powers while marching towards the direction to the nearest Zeta tube.

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Danny just answered a cult’s calling not because he wants to evade his paperwork no sir, he is one responsible halfa and he would never use every excuse he can come up to escape paperwork. The ritual that the cult is using is powerful… oh no….. He deadpaned at Dan as he disappeared from the castle.

When he did appear at the scene he immediately spotted Bart, no wonder he heard a familiar voice in between the botched Esperanto. Danny is just happy to reunite with his friend when he feels Dan is fetching him. Danny told Bart and his friends to hide as Dan might scare them, first impression people!!!

Danny wants to introduce to Bart a redeemed Dan after he asks Bart if he is okay with seeing the person who turned the world into ruins. He may never listen to Jazz when she rants his ears out but some knowledge tends to stay you know.

Dan just smirked as he dragged Danny away knowing that another pile of paperwork added to the mountain of it. Danny just whined to Dan about why is he even doing this when Dan is the regent, it was agreed upon by the Ancients that Dan should be a stand-in as the king of the Infinite Realms while Danny finishes his royal studies to become king and his human life. Dan just said that he just has to look pretty while Danny does the actual things.

Danny just pouted at the notion, as he lay his head on the table that impressively holds the tons of paperwork that reaches to the ceiling of the former king’s castle he can’t help but notice his relationship with Dan. Gone with the anger and malice, replaced with fondness and affection between them, brother, a word Dan accidentally muttered when he thought he was asleep.

Dan is painting himself a target, Danny mused, with the GIW doubling their efforts, despite their continuous idiocy the rare times they managed to capture one is devastating. Any none ghost knew that there was a new king but not who, with Dan’s appearance could easily gain all the enemies of the real king aka HIM. Declaring Dan as the king is keeping him safe and unknown to everyone aside from the closest Ancients who knew the truth.

A ploy to keep him safe.

Danny just sighed and wished Bart could help him out of the paperwork.

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Meanwhile, the JL is in a panic, Time travelers typically avoid telling directly what’s going to happen to avoid further complications the moment they step their feet, so they try to steer the present just a little bit for a better future. So when Bart, the time traveler from a desolate future bursts into the meeting room full of the founding members with two of his teammates trying to catch up to him, about Danny. Flash immediately jumps into action telling Bart to stop what is doing, Bart reiterates that Danny is not his father and Batman immediately barks out a report.

So Bart explains, explains a ruined future, a future full of poison that seeped into the soil and water rendering everything dead, a future where there were only small groups of humans, a future where it was ruled by a tyrant named Dan, a future where his only son Danny Phantom defied the said future so that Bart could go back and change the future.

Constantine explained that they have to be careful, with Dan being the king of the Infinite Realms, they have to tread carefully, or else it may be seen as a declaration of war. If Trigon only conquers different realities then Dan has the power to destroy the universe and realities as they know it. He can make Trigon and Darkseid out of the business.

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PS: If someone out there wants to continue or make a fic about this you are free to do so, don’t forget to tag me though.

PPS: I am now confused about which prompt I should post due to my idiotic self mixing up the date so we’ll go back to the former schedule.

#dc x dp #dc x dp prompt #danny phantom #danny fenton #ghost king danny

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gremlin-bot · 2 months ago

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There is No Closure, Just Adapting To Life

Ao3 link: Here Master list: Here

Summary:

Danny should have asked more questions before accepting the request to fix a different dimension's time stream from Clockwork. He didn’t think he would be de-aged and live a different life where he would latch on to a new family and friends. It was nice being a part of a community of heroes.

It really wouldn’t have been that bad if he stayed there. Too bad that he was pulled from that world and back into his old one, both fulfilling his wish to see his original family and killing all the relationships with his new ones.

Now he has to figure out how to live in his original dimension again. And maybe, just maybe find a way to visit the one he forcefully left behind.

Chapter 1: Your trial period is over; your account has been put on hold.

Danny shouldn't be thinking about the past life he lived, shouldn't think about the parents who adopted him only to disappear for months at a time, nor the vigilante family he’d inserted himself into during their time of need. That life wasn't his to begin with! Just a dimension with a timeline that needed fixing in an unconventional way.

So, why is he crying?

He just got back to his home, time hadn’t passed here. He can see Sam, Tucker, and Jazz again! (He'll never see Cass, Jason, Dick, Damien, Steph, Kon –) He's more experienced and better at fighting now. He can protect Amity better! (He misses Gotham. The city seemed to make heroes feel like magic) Danny has his original life back… but damn it, he wants to go back! He doesn't want to protect a city alone again!

Danny curls into himself on his bed. Silent sobs racking his body. He's so different than he was before. His hair was longer and parted in the middle, nothing like his usual, (old), fringe style. His missing scars and the new ones he can't explain. Gods- (No, wait, it's Ancients) he is missing his spleen! How was he going to explain that, or any of this? Even as his sobs grew more violent, their volume didn't increase.

A trick he learned in the Wayne manor.

He didn't want to disturb anyone with his half remembered dreams of a different life.

Danny took a shuddering breath, the feelings he’d been trying to bury since his return hitting him full force. He’d been sucked back to his original dimension without warning a day ago. Clockwork, that bastard, didn't even give him time to say goodbye to the rest of the Bats and Birds. He was in his apartment as Tim Drake one second and plopped in Danny Fenton's bedroom the next.

His talk with the older ghost didn't make the situation any better.

He didn't explain anything! Just that his work in that dimension's timeline was done. If Clockwork hadn't time locked the portal Danny would've been in the ancient’s lair instead of dissociating in a room that doesn't feel like his anymore. He hates not being given a choice or having a plan.

Jason was right; anger was so much easier than actually dealing with your feelings.

His spiraling was stopped when he heard a soft knock on his door. Oh, he’d forgotten that Jazz was home. Living through a lifetime made him forget a lot about his first one. He didn't get time to follow the new spiral of thoughts before his sister opened the door.

"Danny?" Her voice was soft, laced with worry.

"Yeah," He hates how hoarse his voice sounds.

He should be better than this; he’s infiltrated the league of assassins for Ancients’ sake. He watched as she approached his bed, buried beneath blankets. He can hear when she actually sees him by her gasp.

"What happened?" Jazz asked as she sat on the bed facing him.

"I… I fixed a timeline in a different dimension for Clockwork." Danny can't bring himself to look at her. Everything is still fresh. The feeling he can just barely comprehend as grief has yet to settle inside him. He takes a deep breath. He can compartmentalize this and deal with it after Jazz leaves.

"How long were you gone this time, a month or two?" Jazz looks at him with unending patience and care.

"17 years," He whispers hesitantly.

"Oh… oh, Danny." He couldn’t have prepared himself for the shock and pained confusion on her face. She leaned her over him, pulling him into a tight hug.

Oh, he can't compartmentalize this after all. Danny’s breath hitched as fat tears began rolling down his face, dampening his pillow even more. His life as Tim made him forget what it was like to have unending support from a sibling. He loved the hodge podge of the Waynes, but he was a vigilante first. He wasn’t really family.

Just a coworker.

“You don’t have to talk about it if it’s too much. Just know that I’ll always be here for you little brother,” Jazz’s voice was gentle. Oh, did he miss her during those years. Cass and Barbara helped him cope with missing Jazz whether they knew it or not. He turned into her, relishing in the fact she was here. He may be missing a whole new family, but he got his old one back.

“I missed you, Jazz. Can you stay here with me for a little while?” He pleaded between silent sobs.

“Of course. I’ll be here as long as you need.”

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Tim woke up to the sound of typing and the sight of red hair. He must have crashed at Barbara’s last night. He sits up, not fully awake just yet.

“Morning, Babs,” he yawns, eyes blurry.

The gentle but persistent clicking of keys stops with a hitch of her breath. "Danny, it's me Jazz. Is Babs someone you were close to… before?"

The voice he hears back isn't Barbara's.

It's one he barely recognizes now, made even harder to place with the barely covered pain. Jazz deserves a better brother than him.

What kind of brother is he, that he doesn't even remember his own sister at first glance.

Danny takes a deep shaky breath. No, he can't think like that. He hasn't seen her in 17 years, Of course he isn't going to recognize her. Still she hasn't changed one bit.

He can't tell if that makes it better or worse.

"Yeah" he croaks, voice rough from sleep and the lump that's formed in his throat. “She has hair like yours.”

“Oh… do you want to talk about it?” she offers awkwardly. She was completely out of her depth but still wanting to help in her own way. (Alfred would have loved to meet her.)

Danny shakes his head, pushing past the aching in his chest as he drags himself out of bed. He doesn't look back at Jazz, he doesn't want to see the pitying look in her eyes. Something ugly, angry, and raw always tends to creep into him when that particular emotion is directed at him, and she doesn't deserve that.

What a cruel joke that the one thing that he gets in spades in both lives is pity.

He needs a strategy if he plans to survive the next couple of days, (the rest of his life), and that starts small. Get ready and investigate what the hell was happening in his life before… his time mission. He lost so much time with his breakdown, how annoying.

Tim (no, he's Danny now) huffs, opening his closet. Well before he starts anything he needs a damn shower.

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By the time Danny was clean and dressed, Jazz had left him with a journal with his name on it and her scrapbook. Ancients, she really is the best big sister. (Cass would contest that).

He knows that he should dive into them right away, but… he can put it off a little longer. Remembering and relearning will take time, and he has all the time in the world now, whether he likes it or not. Diving deep will be too much. He’s too emotionally raw, and just needs something to latch on to, like:

Next day survival plan 101, start small.

He can look at Danny’s phone; he’ll figure out what to do with Tim’s later. Remember, one step at a time; one thing at a time. Finding the device was easy, it was on the nightstand where he always leaves it. Seems like this is one of the habits he kept in both lifes. Opening it up was easier than he originally expected; he really didn't have a sense of cybersecurity beyond Tucker back then.

(…Now?)

The device was familiar in so many different ways; he always did gravitate towards technology (with Tucker pushing him forward right next to him). The screen lit up, showing the basic layout of all phones; he dismissed notifications from dumb games, leaving the social media ones. What he was really looking for was his messages.

He had a couple new messages from Sam and Tucker in their group chat. He should look at the chat, but, in doing so, he'd be facing the people he had been grieving their missing presence for the last 17 years. A missing presence that had him picked up so many new hobbies, just because they reminded him of his two best friends. Danny would have never touched a camera if it wasn't for the ache in his chest everytime he passed a looming gargoyle. The hundreds of pictures will finally be seen by their intended audience, if he could only get himself to open the gods damned chat!

Shaky breath slips from his lips as he steadies his thoughts. Baby steps. Look at the messages and go from there.

— New Messages —

PettyWitch

Tucker I swear if your ass isn't up rn, I'm coming over and replacing all of the meat in your fridge with lettuce.

TFine

give me a sec 2 get down there you can stop calling me

i'm not going to answer

what about Danny

how come you aren't calling HIM!!!!!

PettyWitch

Bc Danny can actually get up before noon during the weekends unlike other people in this chat! So he can be trusted to get to Nasty Burger on time.

TFine

HEY!

Their banter goes on. Danny scrolls through it with a painful kind of fondness draping over him. A hole that once gouged his heart was being filled, only to have a different part get ripped out for the same reason. The people he missed will always have some type of mouth on them, especially one that gets them in trouble. Moving past the too fresh grief and focusing on the conversation at hand does bring about a pressing issue, he's supposed to meet up with Sam and Tucker soon.

Shit.

Looks like he's facing more ghosts of his past-turned-present sooner than he thought. It's Tucker and Sam. They stuck with him through his death and his first hero career. If anyone besides Jazz could sympathize with him, it was them. Resolve hardened like the Bat he is (was —there is no way back to them now), he spends the little remaining time flipping through pictures and looping handwriting as he pieces the memory of his old life back together.

#dpxdc #fic link #ao3 link #writing on the walls #tim drake #danny phantom

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picturejasper20 · 3 months ago

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Danny Phantom compilation fan animatic list

Based on this post i saw, i thought about doing one for Danny Phantom fandom animatics i have seen around.

Rider's Lullaby by Cap'n Ney Idea: Based on Krossan's AU of Dan Phantom. In the animatic Jazz helps Dan reminding him of who he used to be and how he turned into Dan/Dark Danny. Song is from Centaurworld series

Nothing Left To Lose || Danny Phantom Animatic by Kadziduo (youtube) Idea: Valerie tries to get her revenge on Vlad for manipulating her but Danny tries warning her before she takes it too far and/or gets hurt in the process. The song is from Tangled the Series

Still Feel animatic by Hoodedjelly (Also on tumblr) Idea: It is based on when Danny transformed into a half ghost by stepping into the Ghost Portal and what he saw/felt during that moment. Song by Half Alive

Holy Ghost by Orphe Idea: AU where Danny dies from the portal accident and becomes a full ghost instead of becoming a half ghost-half human like in the series. Song by Modern Baseball

Deepo Phantom by D-Feng Idea: Danny sings a song and tries to befriend Sidney (?) The song is from Deepo movie and was sang by Danny's voice actor.

To be a Ghost King by Kadziduo Idea: Ghost King AU, Clockwork teaches Danny how to be a Ghost King. Song from Barbie Princess Popstar movie

Ghost Meme by Amethyst Ocean Idea: AU where Danny goes missing after the portal accident and Sam goes looking for him. Song by Confetti

You are my daad meme by Saffee Bear Idea: The meme of ¨you are my dad¨ with Danny having Spiderman and Deadpool as his dads

Horse loose in a hospital by Dots Idea: Based on the original audio using Vlad being elected as mayor from Amity Park and not having idea what he is doing.

What does Clockwork do in his free time animatic by auraphantom Idea: A shitpost animatic of what Clockwork does when he has free time

The Ghost Portal Incident animatic by theAxolotlKween Idea: A shitpost about how Danny turned into a half ghost because of the portal incident

Danny hates Christmas by Tumbling Darkling Idea: Different animations with audios that show Danny hating christmas

Vlad Masters' Gamerpad [RTFD x Danny Phantom] by Spooky Ghostpeppers (Also in tumblr as GhostPeppers and ghoulishautism) Idea: Vlad talking to Danielle about his past with the ¨gamer¨ speech meme. Audio from Sonic the Hedgehog Real Time dub

Monster by Soni Dragon Idea: Scenario where Dark Pariah returns and takes over Amity Park, Danny's house is destroyed and Danny blames himself for what happened. Song from Frozen musican and over by Alex Jemphrey

Prom Dress meme | Vlad Masters ( young ) by Bege Tege Idea: It explores Vlad's past, his time in the hospital and how he first turned into Plasmius. Song by Mxmtoon

Mr.Sunfish by Muku GC Idea: It takes place post Phantom Planet. It shows Vlad regretting the way he took Jack's friendship for granted and checking how Jack has been doing (while he remains invisible). Song by YonKaGor

DP AU The Ultimate Enemy (Paint It Black fic) by deathcomes4u Idea: It is an animatic retelling of the events of The Ultimate Enemy with some events changing since it is an AU. It is based on the fic that is ín the same post.

DP AU Clockwork's Apprentice by EP阿佑 (Also here on tumblr) Idea: AU where Danny gets adopted by Clockwork instead of Vlad after the Nasty Burger TUE explosion. Some time passes and Danny finds out about the timeline he turned into Dark Danny. He tries changing the outcome in spite of Clockwork's warning. Audio is from Haoliners and LAN Studio

DP Phantasy AU - Pitchfork Kids animatic by KC Idea: Danny Phantom fantasy AU that reimagines the events of Reign Storm episode. Song by AJR

Danny Phantom Warriors Cat AU-Crystals by Tumbling Darkling Idea: DP Warriors Cats AU, the animation seemed to be part of a bigger project. Song by Monsters and Men

#danny phantom #phandom #dp animatic

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poppy-s-rampage · 5 months ago

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Once a Hero.

Chapter 1: Too late!

Warnings: Blood, Gore and violence. You can't sue me now!

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Prologue| Masterpost| Chapter 2!

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The Master of time leaned over the unmoving form of his young protegee, forceps needle and thread in hands. The old ghost deftly redid the stitches on the youngest torso. Slowly but surely closing the jagged ‘Y’ shaped wound shut.

‘How did it come to this?’

All it took was one minute of inattention for the young Halfa's timeline to be put in jeopardy. In a single moment of inattention, Daniel’s timeline tangled with another stray unstable one and merged. By the time Clockwork noticed, the timelines were already fused to the point of no return. Reality wrapped to fit the new Frankenstein series of events. So he did what he could, snip at some parts, and twist at others to make it so his protegee could have a chance of survival and still having a goodish timeline.

The gaping wound now finally shut, the old ghost went to treat the boy’s muzzle cuts and throat. The apparatus, when destroyed by the wail, had split open the right cheek’s flesh from the corner of the Halfas mouth, carving a morbid half smile. The boy’s tongue was bloody but could still be salvaged with diluted ectoplasm. The real problem was the throat; it was impossible to currently heal to a usable level with the concentration of ectoplasm he could safely use on Danny.

He was no Frostbite, but he was more than capable of putting back together the young ghost in a Time out. Daniel was too unstable to stay in the infinite realms, his core still too raw for pure Ecto. It would be like feeding a 10-year comatose patient a buffet after being kept alive via IV, transfer the concept to a fragilized and forcefully balanced core, and you get the idea. It was also a way to better realize the consequences of his mistake. But not to apologize, nothing would ever be enough to fix what Daniel had endured.

Clockwork stopped believing in apologies an eternity ago.

It all had happened so fast, Phantom had no chance of changing the course of events. Ironically, the current timeline was the best possible outcome after the incident.

While his protegee’s original timeline’s parents would have been accepting of his heritage, the ones of the intruding unstable timeline were not. ‘Monsters’ would have been too kind of a word to describe them. Curiosity plagued individuals who could have given Dan a run for his money. The origin of a world’s collapse, the cause of too many deaths, terrifying geniuses with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and slaves of their obsessions. Even their children didn’t hold enough value for them to spare.

Thankfully, this world didn’t come to that and was still salvageable. Unfortunately, too many people have already lost their lives and existence to his mistake.

It had been like any tranquil day in young Daniel's life. He woke up groggy after a night of patrolling, went to school, hung out with his friends, patrolled a bit, saved a few weaker ghosts, stopped a few accidents and then went back home. The young Halfa had planned to finally reveal his identity to his parents- with no little insistence and encouragement from his sister and the reassurance of the previous Freakshow happenings. (He, of course, delayed the moment as much as he could.)

Of course, Clockwork had already watched and analyzed all the possible futures caused by this decision. He had assured Danny that no harm would befall him.

And since every possible happening was in Daniel’s favor, the ghost of time left the timeline out of his watch in favor of fixing yet another mess the Speedster’s had caused.

Seriously, what kind of mentally challenged troglodyte would erase an entire timeline to enjoy a cheap burger in loop instead of buying another!

*Crack*

The forceps broke in his hand. The Ancient summoned another one. Moving to stitch the lacerations on his king’s arms and legs.

It had, sadly, taken a while for the Master of Time to fix the Flash themed issues. It then took him an even longer while to salvage the tangled mess of timelines. He was far too late to save Danny’s loved ones. Humans, even Liminals, were fragile.

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The reveal had gone well at first, Jack and Maddie had accepted their son’s new nature. But then the timelines merged, the Fenton parents became one with their alternates and the world was set ablaze.

The youngest Fenton was promptly drugged and knocked out, only to wake up on a dissection table. His parents and a few GIW agents circling him, tools in hand. The hours, maybe days, Daniel spent in these creatures’ grasps were a nightmare made real.

His sister and friends tried to free him, only to be captured and fall victim to the same fate. Amity Park’s younger population mutinied against the agency and scientists but quickly got shut down. Brutally. The city was deemed a lost cause and put on lock down. The elder Fentons and the GIW galvanized by their success, went after every single being standing in their way in the name of science and self-defense.

It was too much for the young Halfa. His every waking moment being haunted by monsters wearing the skin of people he used to know and love. To hear the same people who raised and loved him gloating at the harm they caused his fraid. At the harm they caused him, vindictive. Every ounce of strength Danny had went into figuring out a way to save what he had left. But alas, he was too late.

Everything culminated the moment the agents and his parents reentered the room for the how manyth time. Their make believe faces fixed into a cruel smirk, smiles too wide, eyes too bright and too many teeth. Were the ghosts truly the monsters ?

Black opaque bags were dragged into the room next. A dreadful foreboding feeling caressed his spine. It was different. What were they planning?! What did they do?!

Panic seized the Halfa’s heart, hair standing on end. Eyes wide and pupils dilating as he noticed the strong smell of copper permeating from the bags. His restrained limbs shaking at the realization of the truth he oh so wanted to deny.

The monsters kept talking, taunting and accusing him of something. Blaming him. But he didn’t ‘hear’ them over his ever rising dread.

They opened the bags and his world came crashing down.

Three lifeless barely recognizable corpses. Chest opened in a bloody imitation of a butterfly. Missing limbs and organs. An innumerable number of lacerations. All indicators of a painful and slow death. But yet their eyes remained closed into acceptance and welcoming the relief of death.

He wailed.

Despite the muzzle, despite his already severed vocal cords. The wail coming from his very core blasted everything in his surroundings. The muzzle shattered, the monsters vaporized into a red mist and the walls became debris.

The building shook. The creatures in human skin panicked trying desperately to flee the premise but they were too late.

The latest experimental portal meant to be mass produced by the GIW resonated with the Wail and destabilized. The explosion that followed erased the facility and its surroundings and triggered the original Fenton portal which in turn wiped the city above off the maps.

Every single being died. The GIW agents, the Fentons, the citizens and some of the weaker ghosts. The stronger Phantom rogues weren’t even in the range or succeeded in escaping. The Fentons and GIW were still ‘thankfully’ useless when it came to capturing them.

And then there was Phantom.

Unfortunately or fortunately for him.

Forever the exception.

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Prologue| Masterpost| Chapter 2!

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Author note:

Hello! Thank you for reading! This time I didn't write this at 3 am!

I wrote it at 5am! Insomnia says what?

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dannyphantom1234 · 1 year ago

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Reborn as Dan Phantom.

A fan of the show is reborn as Dan, the evil version of Danny just as he was created�� but what no one knew was a fangirl had taken over the body and knew just what to do to help her family that would suffer what she just went through unless she did something to help. So— she creeped towards Clockwork, stole the time medallion, went to the timeline of the original, and immediately took over as big brother figure to help these poor children from suffering the future they would have to endure alone without adult supervision.

She— now he— didn’t care for gender, and just wanted to help and protect his new(ish) family from bad people. What he didn’t know was he was also thrown alongside the dc universe, which was an awesome discovery on his part later on.

Dan— or Dante— as he wished to be called, came to the group with sorrow in his heart as he explained what would happen in the future if Danny cheated on his test, not that it was anyone’s fault but fates. He explained how no one was at fault and it could all be avoided if he could help it.

He took over the ghost fights, and had a long talk with Clockwork about what would happen and his real purpose for being there.

His original timeline was obviously erased, and the only reason he survived was because of the medallion, so later he had to go through ghost magic and make himself his own person, gained a whole butt load of tattoos intertwined with ghost time magic and becomes the next king of the infinite realms after defeating the old guy easily after seeing him beat up his little bro.

Dante became king instead of Danny and took over all the overloaded paperwork along the way.

What he didn’t know, was that he would be summoned because of his status. He really thought the fan fictions were just exaggerating what would happen if he was ever given the position and power. Well, it was all true from what he read.

(I’m making this a Dante/King Phantom x Jason Todd/Red Hood).

He made an actual legal identity for himself with the help of Technus and Tucker, who became better pals after they set aside the fact that they attacked each other at some point or another.

Danny became a little brother to him, Jazz became his little sister who likes to treat him as if he were still Danny at times, and Danielle became his daughter.

Dante legally adopted Dani after they got his papers in order, and made her an identity as well. Elle was much younger than he remembered, but then again, she was deaged recently and just came back into contact with the group, who couldn’t take care of her because they were still children as well.

Vlad was still a little evil but leveled out after a huge diabolical involving Maddie, their so called mother.

Madeline Fenton had thought her son and daughter conspired with the ghosts and attacked them in their own home, Danny was greatly injured with multiple blast wounds and Jazz suffered a concussion while trying to push him out of the target zones.

Jack had football tackled Madeline and the rest was history.

Vlad had fallen out of love with her after seeing what she did to her own children, and instead got his head out of his butt and realized he was in love with Jack all along.

Jack divorced Madeline, took custody of his kids and decided they should move, all while Vlad made plans to take down GIW with Team Phantom.

Jack and Vlad met him and decided to emotionally adopt Dante as well in their messed up family.

Dante got a job as a mechanic and started his own business in Gotham. Very cliche from all the fanfics he read in his past life but he wanted to do something he knew and loved. He loved fixing things and his side job as the king of the infinite realms was basically being like a father to ghost children while scolding those who thought it was a good idea to attack innocent mortals.

He mainly spent his time raising Danielle. Giving her everything she deserves and making her happy now that his family was safe.

He was randomly summoned by the Justice League who were ready to full on attack him until they saw him reading to his child, not realizing he was summoned until someone cleared their throat. He was literally in his own little bubble, reading his two year old daughter a storybook while holding her against his chest as he floated above the ground, laid back in a relaxed position.

How it would go:

I looked up from the book after feeling a sudden shift in my surroundings, seeing multiple very brightly dressed people in front of me. I glared, shifting completely into my ghost king form while holding my daughter close to my chest. The storybook I was reading had disappeared into a pocket dimension for later, as I had to deal with this madness.

“Who in their right minds would summon the Ghost King? I literally burnt all those summoning books to ash.” I grumbled, and looked down to see Elle had slightly woken up at the sound of my deep voice.

“Dada?” She mumbled, rubbing her right eye as she sat up from my chest.

“It’s alright, Elle,” I rumbled, kissing her forehead as she plopped back down to take her nap again at my reassurance. “We can finish reading time later today.” I murmured to her as she went back to snoozing.

“What do you want, mortals?” I asked nonchalantly.

“Why does the ghost king have a child? And how in the hell are you not attacking us as the books state?” Zatanna asked, looking on at me in shock.

“You willingly want to be attacked after summoning me? That’s idiotic. “ I state, looking bored with their conversation. I still held Elle close, not answering their questions about my child just yet.

“No, a bloody idiot summoned you just as we defeated him as a last defense!” Constantine spat out, looking hysterical.

“Well, sorry to break the news, coward, but the last king was defeated by me after trying to take over the world, he is now locked away in forever sleep until we can find a way to get rid of him completely.” I explained to the coward looking at me in shock on the ground, bruises across his face and the usual weird looking villain costume on him.

I looked around for a quick second before stopping at the Batfam. Who were all here in a more relaxed formation seeing a child in my arms. My favorite fandom family in my last life.

I looked them over before spotting the Red Hood, my celebrity crush I had on him was no secret to my family, but they had no room to judge for themselves.

His aura admitted contaminated ectoplasm, and I knew I had to heal him sometime in the future.

“May I ask what your goals are? And who is this child?” Superman spoke up after a moment of digesting my information about my new position.

“I protect both living and the undead. I don’t have a world ending goal in mind, just to raise my daughter and give her the life she deserves.” I said, looking down at my daughter with a small smile that would be unnoticeable to most.

I looked back up to see the large group had softened at my words and I was about to ask a question about Red Hood, when my daughter suddenly decided this was taking too long and too much noise for her to take a nap.

“Dada! Where puppy?” She demanded answers, smacking the side of my face with her chubby hands, as I floated there, unmoving with an emotionless face towards the group.

“Cujo is with the twerp, remember? He will come by later for playtime.” I answered, which was slightly muffled as she squished my cheeks together and smiled at me happily.

“Dada! Fishh—“ she squealed out, looking happy with herself as she giggled at my face.

“You gremlin—“ I muttered out, tickling her sides as she squeaked, her flying out of my arms and turning into her young ghost form, looking ready to play.

“Playtime?” She asked, bouncing a little in the air, clapping her hands a little.

“Not yet, blob ghost. We need to head back home for snack time.” I explained, crossing my arms as she pouted, my arm muscles bulged a bit as I crossed them, and I still always forget the fact that I’m taller than most, alongside bigger. In my past life, I was a stick of a girl that had spaghetti arms, much different for sure.

Her pouting turned into the famous puppy eyes, and I turned back to the group to avoid them, only to see amused faces all around.

“Do you guys need anything before we head back? I’m sure you don’t want to deal with a Princess tantrum.” I rumbled out, looking on in disinterest as Elle decided to hug the side of my face like an octopus. She probably still had the puppy eyes on.

“You have an adorable daughter!” Princess Diana exclaimed soon after I was finished speaking. “How old is she?” She asked, looking at me curiously as I lowered myself to the ground, Elle now floating behind my head as she played with my low ponytail.

“She is now two years old.” I answered, swiftly nabbing Elle from behind me while reaching the back of my head. I lowered my arms to see I had her upside down now, her hanging like a sack of potatoes as she giggled.

“Dada!” Elle exclaimed, waving her arms around her in glee as she looked up at me.

“You don’t feel like a ghost completely… neither does she, what are you exactly?” Constantine asked, waving his hand at me in confusion.

“I don’t know if I can trust you with that information, Constantine.” I growled a little, glaring at him as he stepped forward while Elle hid behind me.

“Hey now! Let’s calm down, no one needs to start anything!” Nightwing stepped in front of the glaring Constantine who looked more and more like a bug the longer I looked at him.

“There isn’t anything to start, really. His soul is in shreds at the moment, not very powerful compared to my kind anyway.” I stated, crossing my arms once again as Elle peaked out from over my shoulder.

“Now, I need to speak with a Mr. Red Hood.” I said, looking on at the Batfam who tensed at my words.

“Why?” Batman growled out, stepping in front of the confused Red Hood.

“To heal him, of course.” I sighed, pinching the bridge of my nose as I heard sounds of confusion from everyone else.

“His ectoplasm is very corrupted. He has the ghost flu, in which case makes my kind very moody and in need of pure ectoplasm to filter it and his emotions.” I briefly explained, unpinching my nose as I looked up from the ground. Willing my headache away for now.

“So his pit madness is basically the ghost flu?” Red Robin murmurs out hysterically, almost giggling in disbelief.

“Yes, I have heard of his haunt, Crime Alley, that being under his protection, I have never stepped foot on his property because I didn’t want to seem like a threat to a sick person who can’t control themselves completely with such a sickness.” I explained myself a bit nervously, rubbing the back of my neck a little with my right hand as Elle now sat on my left shoulder, swinging her legs.

“Wow, the ghost king is a dork…” I heard Spoiler mutter to Orphan, who nodded in agreement.

I huffed, crossing my arms and floated once again. “I can come back another time. I just wished to help a little. My doctor can probably fix him quicker than I, but I know what to do as I have studied under him for more than over a year now.” I informed them.

“So the pit madness can go away…?” Red Hood asked, stepping from around Batman to speak to me clearly.

“I’m unsure of what this “Pit Madness” is, but yes, I can heal you and make sure you properly get the help you need from your emotional roller coaster sickness.” I said, looking down at him as he took a few more steps to me, his family following behind him.

“Well, when can you fix me?” He asked, his voice modifier cutting all emotions from his voice, but I can clearly feel his emotions bursting from his almost formed core. It seems this sickness had stopped him from forming his core completely and left him sick for many years.

I could feel his hope, his rage and especially his bursts of want for some reason.

“I can fix you right now, but I wasn’t sure if you wanted privacy or not. It’s very…. Intimate. I can take you somewhere private if you would like?” I rumbled out, the burst of want came out more clearly, and I could tell Red Hood was clearly not expecting that word choice.

“Take me anytime—“ I could clearly hear his muttered out answer behind his helmet with my enhanced hearing, but I don’t know if I was supposed to hear that.

“Nope! Little Wing— you are not going with the ghost king—“ Nightwing suddenly yelled out, the whites of his mask bigger as Spoiler, Red Robin, and Signal burst into loud laughter. Batman sighed loudly in disappointment. Robin just “Tt” and sighed alongside his father, looking like a mini bat. Orphan just smiled at me.

“By intimate, I mean having a look at your soul, I will essentially have to take a closer look at that and cure you.” I fixed my words, making it seem as if I didn’t hear anything and I could feel a little disappointment coming from Red Hood but he nodded at my explanation.

#dc x dp #danny phantom #danny fenton #dp x dc crossover #Dante Fenton #jason todd #jason todd x danny fenton #danny fenton x jason todd #batman #dc universe #dp x dc prompt #dp x dc fic #random thoughts #please don’t even take this seriously #I had an idea and threw it onto the internet because I’m currently sleep deprived and overworked

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raaorqtpbpdy · 9 months ago

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They Will Be Missed

For the prompt: (Post TUE, Clockwork didn't save his friends & family.) Danny is struggling living with Vlad, drowning in his own grief and pain. It gets to the point where he rarely ever goes ghost hunting anymore. Although, if he did, he may have seen signs of the new ghosts forming in Amity Park, and they look hauntingly familiar. [from @fentoaster]

This takes place in the original TUE timeline, before Clockwork meddled.

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[Warnings for past character death, grief, implied suicidal ideation, and depression]

Danny felt empty. Except for a sharp pain in his chest, there was nothing in him anymore. Nothing mattered anymore.grief

Every since he'd lost all his loved ones in that explosion, he felt as if he had nothing to live for anymore. He spent all his time wandering Vlad's mansion like a ghost—the kind from those old stories, not the real ones. He stared into space and he either cried or tried not to.

He was so pitiful and depressed Vlad didn't even have it in him to gloat about Danny finally being his son.

He tried to keep up his old habits, school, ghost hunting, video games... but he fell off the wagon pretty quickly and took to just sulking around Vlad's place... his new home that felt like a dungeon, even though he wasn't technically being held prisoner except by his own lack of motivation to leave.

Surprisingly, Vlad didn't try to control him, didn't force him to go back to school, or to be normal, or even to train with him as his half-ghost apprentice or whatever it was he'd always planned to do if Danny ever agreed to join him. Danny supposed he must be grieving too, in his own way. After all—or so he claimed—he'd lost the love of his life in that explosion too.

It got to the point where Danny hardly ever left the house and almost never went ghost hunting anymore. Unless the ghost sought him out directly, he simply didn't care. Valerie could handle it. Or the A-Listers—once Phantom stopped showing up as often and the Fenton's were... gone, they all formed their own little ghost hunting team. They weren't bad, actually. They weren't great, but they weren't bad.

Amity Park didn't need him.

He was free to live his sorry excuse of a life, struggling to manage even basic tasks like showering and eating and even sleeping. He was free to ignore everyone and everything around him, shirk his responsibilities, and discard all the things he'd once enjoyed. He could do anything he wanted to but die.

Perhaps if he hadn't chosen to ignore the world around him, he might've seen the signs. The spike of ectoplasmic energy where the Nasty Burger had once been. The chill everyone seemed to get when they walked past the cordoned off site where it used to stand.

If he ever went into the town center, he might've seen the shades start to form, their silhouettes vague but hauntingly familiar. He might have heard it when they started to speak. When they asked after him. When they began to look for him.

He might have heard his parents voices calling after him again. "Danny! Danny! Where are you?"

He might have gotten to see his best friends' smiling faces when they saw him once more.

He might've even felt the warmth of his sister's hugs, hugs he'd often refused before her death, and that he so missed now.

But he didn't. And he hadn't. And he never would.

And after Vlad made good on his promise to remove his humanity... he never would.

#danny phantom #dp #danny fenton #fic #ficlet #things i wrote #depression cw #suicidal ideation cw #grief cw #phic phight #phic phight 24

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mjw-creature · 1 year ago

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Hi! Can you explain the concept of "Ancients" in Danny Phantom? Meaning that these creatures are ancient in age, or like creatures that existed originally in the phantom zone?

Thanks for the ask! I'll try my best to answer, but there's not really one solid answer here.

The only mentions of the "Ancients" in the canon is in the episode Reign Storm. These were a group of powerful ghosts who sealed Pariah Dark (the ghost king) away and stopped his reign of terror. According to this info, the Ancients would have existed back in the time when Pariah was reigning, and while we don't have an actual timeline for this, it's safe to assume it was a long time ago.

That doesn't tell us much about the ages of these ghosts though, considering that we have no idea how long these ghosts existed or if they still exist at all.

Fanon has a lot of different takes on what Ancients actually are and who qualifies as one. Since there's so many different headcanons for this, I'm not gonna be able to outline very much except the ones I know offhand.

The general take I've gathered on what Ancients are, according to fanon, is that they are very powerful ghosts, and probably also very old in terms of age.

Also, when speaking about Ancients in terms of fanon, I don't think it's referring to the specific group of Ancients that took down Pariah, rather a more general group of ghosts that fit similar criteria.

Some of the ghosts that people headcanon as Ancients include: Clockwork, Pandora, Nocturn, Undergrowth, Vortex, and even Frostbite.

These ghosts all are extremely powerful, and while we don't have ages for any of them, it's safe to assume that at least Clockwork and Pandora have existed for a very long time, given that Clockwork maintains the timeline as a 4th dimensional being, and Pandora is literally THE Pandora, who in myth is the first woman on Earth.

The other thing they all have in common, minus Pandora and Frostbite, is that they each represent or are defined by an element. Clockwork=Time, Nocturn=Sleep/Dreams, Undergrowth=Plants, Vortex=Storms.

We don't know the origins of these ghosts either, but the only one who is similar to other ghosts that are implied to be humans (Ember, Johnny, Kitty, Desiree) is Pandora, especially when you consider her myth. The others, well, it's arguable since their backstories are never given. But it would make a lot of sense for these ghosts to have come from the Ghost Zone rather than the real world, given how much their elements define who they are, rather than their personalities.

What's most interesting is that these ghosts have very godlike/mythological qualities. Obviously, Pandora is literally mythological. But these characters' powers, personalities, and motivations, tend to come directly from what they represent. Clockwork is cryptic because time is. Undergrowth wants to grow as much as possible because, well, guess what plants like to do. Vortex is destructive and volatile, because that's how storms are.

So, long answer short, there's not really a solid answer to the fanon concept of "Ancients." But the running theme seems to be ghosts that are extremely powerful, represented by an element, and/or have mythological qualities. These are ghosts who are very similar to mythological gods.

#ask #danny phantom

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hello-im-not-a-possum · 1 year ago

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(Going to fuse as many of these as I can.)

Breaking Into Vlad's house via his ghost portal at the dead of night on a chilly Friday wasn't Danny, Tucker, and Sam's idea of a good time, but the billionaire had been suspiciously quiet since the time he showed up at the house sick with a flare up of Ecto-Acne and they *just* wanted to double check to make sure that it didn't go dormant when 'cured' only to come back full-force and fatal. If it was just Vlad, they probably wouldn't have bothered, but since Sam and Tucker also got infected... It was worth double-checking.

The only light in the area was the faint greenish glow of the still-open portal, but it was all that was needed to show that the older halfa's lab was mostly clean if you ignored the layer of dust starting to settle. Danny used some of his ectoplasm to light up the area a little more, but the only thing shown that seemed noteworthy in the place was a set of files in alphabetical order that rested on the table.

Aster Masters.

Brutus Masters.

Clav Masters.

Danielle & Dan Masters.

Emily Masters.

Flynn Masters.

Gabriel Masters.

Project: The House Always Wins.

The three teens gave each other a look before hesitantly picking up the files and looking through them in reverse-alphabetical order.

Project: The House Always Wins. - After discovering that my condition is both more lethal and chronic than I realized, I went to the doctor for the first time in years for a full check up to see just how badly my body was messed up from that incident.

It was even worse than I thought.

Because of it, I was told that I can't have children of my own and it devastated me. For a period of time, I was even considering just... 'closing the curtains' so to speak and leaving everything to Skulker, Valerie, and the Vultures.

Experience has made it clear that I have no one else truly on my side, even then, their loyalty to me is conditional and I know it.

As I was drafting my will, a starved man in rags with a face identical to my own staggered into my house and raided my fridge. When confronted, he claimed that he WAS me, but from a different timeline. I was skeptical, but then he switched to his ghost form to prove it.

Our ecto-signatures matched.

We sat down over lunch where he further elaborated on his circumstances.

There is a timeline out there where Maddie and I were married, where Jack was the one in my accident, not me. He told me a few other things that didn't make sense given his story but that's not the focus here the main point is that the life they built together was destroyed, she threw him away in favor of that oaf despite the fact that he was half of what she hated the most. I think that made me lose respect for her more than the fact she left her husband of twenty years to die in the ghost zone. Why was she so willing to love and accept a man in my circumstances because he wasn't me? Why does she find me repulsive when I did so much for her?

We unfortunately didn't have a lot of time to talk, Clockwork took him back to his actual timeline before I could ask him further questions and when I protested, he told me he didn't have time for this and that he has more pressing matters like an escaped dangerous prisoner or something. Bologna Sandwiches! He's the TIME ghost, of course he has the time for this! Just freeze it you worm!

...I suspect he has just frozen time specifically to tie my shoelaces together.

But my brief encounter with the alternate me gave me a lot to think about when I tried to return to my original plan. Why should *I* be the one to give up my life when this disease has already taken so much away from me? Why is Jack rewarded with a loving family for how quickly he threw me away while I'm left with the compensation I had to give myself because my so called 'best friend' couldn't even be bothered to do the bare minimum after ruining my life? Why should I be condemned to the worst type of death twice? The longer I thought on it, the more my despair turned into fury. Life stole my lemons, and now I'm going to tear its arms off to get them back.

I'm well aware that fixing fate's mistakes will involve a lot of gambles, however, I have no other options available. It WILL not win. I WILL give myself the family it tries to deny me.

Danny bit his tongue, not sure what to say about what he had just read.

"Oh, thanks Vlad... as if worrying about just the acne being fatal wasn't bad enough..." Sam sneered at the file.

"Well, *we* didn't get ghost powers from it, so maybe we won't have to worry too much about other side effects?" Tucker suggested while looking through the Gabriel file.

Gabriel - Vitals are great, she doesn't seem to possess any unnatural or worrying characteristics outside her breed, and she gets along with the cats nicely. Of all the things that could've happened when Desiree overheard me wishing for a kid, I'm both relieved and thankful that she gave me a baby goat.

"Oh my gosh, he included pictures-" The glasses wearing teen snickered while showing his friends the baby goat in question.

Flynn - Malnourished due to lack of human-safe food in the ghost zone. Covered in various scars, and an X-ray has revealed that his leg was broken. To be honest, I have no clue how he survived this long without my interference. But the good news is that he is recovering at a steady pace and is adjusting to life in the human world.

"I... kinda wanna know that too to be honest. Did he luck out and land in some kind of garden..?"

A DNA test has confirmed my suspicions, he is indeed related to Jack and Maddie...

"I HAVE A BROTHER?!"

Danny gawked at the file. This was completely unbelievable, even when he was looking at the picture of the boy in question. As Vlad's writing described, he was underweight, had scars from what Danny could only assume were claw marks and ectoblasts all over his body, and his leg was in a cast. He looked around Jazz's age and had his mom's purple eyes and auburn hair. But it was still... How did he never know about this before? Why didn't his parents tell him? Hell, did Jazz know?! If not, she deserved to! And why was he finding this out from Vlad's files of all things?!

Looking through the pictures, the three saw the boy- Danny's brother- Flynn wearing normal clothes as well as a green full-body suit that reminded Danny of Valerie's ghost hunting suit, except instead of the visor being tinted black, it was clear, showing him with glowing green eyes.

No matter, if they wanted him, they would've looked hard enough to find him before I did and if they want to take him back from me, they're going to have to fight me in court. They don't know about me having him yet but I will be discussing this situation with my lawyer before they find out and cry 'kidnapper'.

"Okay, this has officially gone from a check-in to a rescue mission."

"...Do you think the other files are kidnapped kids?"

"Only one way to find out..."

Emily - I got a few funny looks throughout the adoption process, a natural part of taking in a haunted doll. Her former "caretakers" were willing to humor me by treating my daughter like a child instead of an object but we both know that they're just happy to be rid of her, not a fan of the 'ghost spider' thing.

"GAH! KILL IT WITH FIRE!"

"Shh! Not so loud! You'll wake up the whole mansion!"

The nerve of some people... She's just a poltergeist, she can't help it!

I have had professional doll makers mend and polish her vessel as well as provide four other porcelain dolls for her to pick and choose at her transgression. As of now, she seems healthy, happy, and has settled in to her new room and house nicely.

"That's... actually kinda cute. ...In a creepy way."

Danielle & Dan - The final result of my chimera/cloning experiments resulted in a set of twins of opposing sexes. ...More research will be done on the gene donor to figure out how this came to be. There were a handful of 'melting scares' during the first few months of their time out of their chambers, but we've figured out how to keep them safe and healthy; a daily injection of ectoplasm stabilizer.

"Holy crap..." Danny frowned looking at the pictures of two kids, one that looked identical to himself at age twelve and one that looked just how he'd look like as a girl, at age twelve. "He cloned me?! What is wrong with him?!"

"Aaaaaaaand we're back to full-on creepy."

On a weird note, Danielle seems to have the same interests and similar personality traits to her gene donor, while Dan's interests and personality traits seem to align more with my own. I wouldn't think twice about that if I didn't know from my experience working on Brutus and Aster that the human halves of artificially made halfas needed their neuron connections manually made in order to properly function. I know for a fact I did not make those connections in their heads. My current hypothesis for Danielle is that those connections were made when her human and ghost halves melted together during one of the scares, but Dan has left me completely stumped. The vultures and Flynn suggest that he just looks up to me, but if he did, why would he try to hide that he has these traits from me?

"...Is it just me or does Dan's ghost form have... red eyes, pointed ears and..." Danny trailed off as he looked at the pictures.

"You don't think..." Sam and Tucker gave Danny a nervous look.

"I'll ask Clockwork when I get the chance."

Clav - After several failed cloning attempts, frustration led me to 'give in' and use my own DNA to fill in the gaps that the donor left despite the danger posed to myself as well as the potential outcome that the resulting Chimera would have to endure the same chronic disease I do. While they unfortunately cannot take a human form, their core is very strong and stable, their mental fortitude is coming along nicely, and so far they've learned a handful of words and phrases. All and all, a promising start to this project.

"Okay, that is... half a skeleton."

"Why are its bones black?"

The skeleton was shrugged off as they looked at the next file.

Brutus - I had accidentally used Jack's DNA to fill in the gaps when I meant to use Maddie's. Luckily, the resulting chimera is far more competent than his other donor despite currently being on the same mental wavelength as a toddler. He doesn't seem to be able to take on a ghost form, but it seems that he can use limited ghost powers.

Danny rolled his eyes at the insult aimed at his dad and put the file back.

Aster - I'm so close to making the perfect clone, I just know it! using Danny's DNA only, I had managed to create a stable clone capable of both a human form and a ghost form. Unlike all that came before him, he hasn't melted into a puddle of biomass tainted ectoplasm, and while it is difficult, we have been navigating his unusual circumstances better than we expected. Skulker has been a huge help in building things that get his needs met, but part of me still wants to do some research into how he came out as only five and a half inches tall.

They were just about to look at the pictures before the lab door opened.

Tucker flinched and dropped the file on accident as a heavy set of footsteps made their way down the stairs.

Danny grabbed Sam and Tucker's hands and turned invisible on reflex. If they were lucky, whoever almost caught them would dismiss it as something that got in or out through the ghost portal, close it, and call it a night.

"Who's down here?" A deep, husky voice rumbled through the dark lab before the light switch flicked on.

From what they could see of the hulking figure, he was wearing a black tank top, pajama pants of the same color, had grayish skin with stitches on his arms and head in a way that reminded the trio of Frankenstein's monster, but unlike said monster, he instead had bluish-greenish eyes, short, charcoal-black hair with a dark gray streak in it, and what appeared to be a mouthful of razor sharp teeth.

He noticed the files on the floor and he picked them up and put them on the table.

"...Those files are pretty outdated, anything you've learned from them won't help you fight us. ...Or whatever it is you want." Brutus tsked as he looked around the room. "I know you're still in here, so why don't you just come out and we can talk..."

Instead, Danny adjusted his grip on Sam and Tucker and phased through the ceiling with them in tow.

The ghost let go of his friends and screamed in pain as three spears pinned him to the wall, two in his arms, and one in his tail.

"Well, well, well..." The hunter in the green suit stepped into the trio's line of sight, his glowing green eyes full of pure, unfiltered malice and his voice filtered by his mask. "I always figured Mr. Golden Boy would come back and pay the rest of the rest of us a visit."

"Flynn?!"

"Oh, so you *do* know my name..." He sneered as he put his hand on the spear in Danny tail and yanked it out of him, making Danny let out a pained yelp while the green hunter cleaned the blood and ectoplasm off the tip. "But I bet you learned it from Uncle Vlad instead of Jack or Maddie."

"Hey! What's your deal?!"

"We came here to save you!"

Sam and Tucker protested against the hunter's treatment of their friend, leading him to roll his eyes at them.

"Save me from What, exactly? Save me from a roof over my head? Save me from a warm, soft bed? Save me from three square meals a day? Clean water? Bandages? Video games? A place where for once in my life, I feel genuinely safe and... and happy?!" his eyes narrowed. "Because if you WANTED to save me from the horrors of the ghost zone, you're a couple of months too late for that..."

Flynn ripped the second spear out.

"Wait! You don't understand! We're brothers!" Danny pleaded with the green-eyed teen. "I don't know what Vlad told you, but it's a lie! It's all a lie!"

With that, Flynn burst out into loud, cackling laughter before taking the third spear out.

"Oh man... that's hilarious! Uncle hasn't even told me anything about you guys yet. He was focusing on you know, healing my injuries and teaching me and my siblings how the human world works? 'Cause that *kinda* takes priority over filling me in on my deadbeat 'family' that had a ghost portal of their own, but never bother going through it to look for me. Everything I learned about the Fentons, I learned through newspaper clippings, Uncle's diaries, and the natural conclusions ANYONE would come to after learning what I did."

"But-"

"You know what, you wanna involve yourself in my family situation so badly?"

Flynn socked Danny in the face with one arm and used the other to pull a vial out of his suit, cracking it open to release a gas which made the trio's eyes and limbs feel like lead.

"Then consider yourselves welcomed to the Masters Family."

---

A few hours later, Danny and his friends stirred awake, their limbs still felt heavy from the effects of the gas.

"Ugh my head.." Sam tried to rub her aching head only to realize that her

"Where are we..?"

Danny looked around and noticed that he and his friends were all tied to chairs in Vlad's dining room, he himself was at the foot of the table with Sam on his left and Tucker on his right, his position giving him the best view of the scene before him. Also sitting in chairs, but not being tied to them were seven figures that ranged from looking similar to extremely different from their pictures.

At the head of the table was Flynn, his hunter suit mostly still on but the mask was removed, showing that he was giving the three a sinister smile.

On Flynn's left was the big clone, the one the file said was Brutus. Despite looking like one of the more stereotypically evil ghosts present in this lineup, he looked very uncomfortable with the situation and like he'd much rather be doing anything else.

On Flynn's right was a bedsheet with red eyes. This ghost also looked like it would rather be anywhere else, but in a bored way instead of a discomforted way. Like he was dragged out of bed for this and just wanted to go back to sleep.

Next to the sheet ghost and Brutus and across from each other were the twins. One of them looked at Danny cautiously yet curiously while the other smirked as if he knew something. Danny could only tell which one was which based on their current expressions and 'reactions to him' as the pictures didn't show him that both had grown their hair out, the curious Danielle keeping her hair in a ponytail while Dan had a mullet. It didn't bode well to him knowing that all Dan needed to do to hide in plain sight was to use a hair tie.

Between Sam and Danielle was a robot/space alien from the 60s. An entity in a silver-chrome suit with glowing cyan buttons and highlights, a plate armor skirt, white gloves and boots, and a jet-black, fishbowl-like helmet with a pair of glowing cyan eyes visible in it. Looking back and forth between him and the bedsheet ghost, Danny knew that one of them was Clav and the other was Aster through process of elimination as there was no tiny ghost or skeleton ghost at the table, but he wasn't entirely sure which was which.

Across from the spaceman and between Tucker and Dan, was a porcelain doll with a light pink, frilly dress, rosy cheeks, big blue eyes, golden fluffy hair, and a pair of big pink bows giving her twin tails. There seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary with her, a stark contrast to the downright horrifying at worst and eerie at best photos in her file, but one that Danny definitely did not mind.

A human-sized blob ghost in a fancy suit (a butler?) came out of the kitchen and set plates of food in front of every person seated, regardless of if they were tied up or not.

The smell of freshly cooked eggs and bacon in front of Tucker stirred him awake.

"Guys, I just had the craziest nightmare!" Tucker exclaimed as he woke up without looking too deeply into his current surroundings. "In it, Vlad cloned Danny a bunch of times and the clones were all super weird-"

Sam cleared her throat audibly and gestured to their hosts of the midnight breakfast with her eyes to clue Tucker in to shut up. Tucker, who didn't pick up on it, continued.

"and he also adopted... idunno, Danny's long-lost cousin or something and this horrifying spider-doll thing that looked like it ate the souls of the innocent for breakfast-"

The 'horrifying spider-doll thing' pinched Tucker's side as hard as she could.

"Ow!"

He looked to where he felt the pinch and his face of irritation melted away to one of fear. He was right next to the rebuilt doll. The technology loving teen screamed in a way where it died in his throat and sounded like air escaping a balloon.

"You are the rudest guest we've ever invited to a midnight brunch." The poltergeist pouted and crossed her arms as she spoke in a sing-song voice. "SO rude in fact that I wanna play with you first..."

"Didn't we agree that the non-supernatural earthlings were off limits?" The spaceman raised a nonexistent eyebrow. "Father cares not for them, but he wouldn't appreciate us ruining the carpets over them."

"Oh shut up, Aster" The twin with a mullet rolled his eyes. "Screw the carpets, 'Daddy' would hate this whole damn thing and everyone here knows it. In fact, Flynn, why bother with the dinner and a show at all? We should've killed them before they even woke up."

"Like a coward?" The twin with a ponytail rested her head on her hand while smirking at her twin. "That's the route you wanna take? Is the donor and his friends too stwong and scawy for you?"

Emily covered her mouth with her hands as she snickered in amusement.

"A coward *and* a simpleton." The sheet ghost nodded in agreement to Danielle's taunts. "While I'm still of the opinion that it's too dang early for this nonsense, if we're going to be the ones to end their stories, we need to give them a spectacular, memorable ending! Not just something as dull as putting them out in their sleep like sick dogs at the vet!"

"No." Dan huffed back. "I'm more like someone who doesn't want to go on a wild goose chase from midnight to six in the dang morning! What's the point of making spectacles that they can find a way to worm out of?! Do you two WANT an endless game of cat and mouse?!"

"You don't??" Emily tilted her head to the side. "The endlessness is half the fun!"

"...Or we can let them go for the night and pretend none of this ever happened..?" Brutus nervously fidgeted as his siblings' gazes turned to him. "Clav's right, it *is* too early for this. Aster and Dan have a point, dad wouldn't want us to be doing this behind his back so if he finds out, we're all gonna get in HUGE trouble. And Flynn, Emily, Danielle, we can always play with them if we want to on a different day, it's not like they're going to disappear into thin air never to be seen again the second we let them out."

"...I second that guy's idea." Danny unhelpfully added.

Flynn clinked a spoon against his glass, getting everyone's attention.

"Okay, now that everyone's fully awake and done making fools of themselves..." He shot a glare at Brutus. "It seems that we're at an impasse on what to do with you three, so the only natural solution is a game of hide and seek: we'll break your bonds and let you hide, we'll seek you out and whoever catches you can do whatever they want to you. Sounds fair, everyone?"

The trio gave each other a look while the Masters children grumbled amongst themselves.

"On your mark..." Flynn readied his spear. "Get set..." He threw it directly at Danny, just narrowly missing the boy himself and hitting the rope between his arm and torso, Danny was quick to take the opportunity to blast the ropes off of his friends and flee with them in tow.

"GO!"

The three didn't dare look back as they heard the roar of an engine, the skittering of thousands of spider legs, and the woosh of speeding ghosts behind them.

His first thought was to flee through the ghost portal downstairs, it was the fastest way out of Wisconsin and back home and the fastest way he could think of to end the Masters' children's game of hide and seek which was closer to a game of seek and destroy.

Unfortunately, Aster seemed to know his thought process well enough to predict that Danny would do that as the trio flew head-first into a net set up in front of the portal, managing to get a few feet into the ghost zone before being pulled back out by the net's cables.

"...Well, that's rather anti-climatic. With everything I heard from Skulker, I was under the impression you would be the most elusive earthlings to hunt." The spaceman tsked. "Now hold still, I hold interest in only one of you..."

As he was rummaging with the net trying to figure out how to let Sam and Tucker out without also letting Danny out, Tucker was breaking his PDA out and breaking through as many firewalls as he could before he finally managed to hack into Aster's suit.

"AURGH!"

The spaceman dropped the net as his arms and legs collapsed into his body, his torso followed suit, leaving the only visible parts of his body being his helmet and the pleated skirt-like strips of metal that started fusing together into a stereotypical UFO form that started hovering as Tucker continued to control it.

"Huh, so that's what the skirt's for." Tucker thought out loud as he sent the ghost off.

"It's a pteruges!" Aster corrected as his suit was speeding into outer space against his will.

"Skulker should've warned you about that!" Sam called after the fleeing Space-ghost.

As soon as the three were free from the net, the ghost portal shut itself closed. At the exact same time, Danny's ghost sense went off.

"You guys don't plan on making this easy, do you?" Danny groaned in irritation as he turned around and faced the next Masters to get in the trio's way; Dan. Who unlike Aster, did not have a mechanical weakness to easily exploit.

"Let's just cut to the chase." He cracked his knuckles and switched to his ghost form, revealing to the trio that their suspicions were correct. "We can do this the easy way or the fun way."

Danny took his friends' hands and flew threw the wall.

"Looks like we're doing this the fun way." Dan flew after them.

The ghost from the ruined future chased his past self through the garden, through the trees on the cusp of the Masters' property, back into the mansion, and as Danny noticed Dan was gaining on him, he decided to take a risky maneuver: intentionally seeking out another Masters to distract Dan with.

He weaved in and out of the mansion's walls, seeking out other seeker and finding nothing but empty rooms. Danny cursed under his breath, it shouldn't be THIS hard to find people who were looking for you!

He was zipping through one of their bedrooms right now for crying out loud! Luckily, said bedroom was full of objects covered with sheets, so Danny managed to pull a fast one on Dan by pretending to leave the room and swapping himself and his friends with three of the statues previously under sheets.

Danny covered his mouth with his hands to muffle his gasps as he caught his breath while Sam and Tucker kept an eye out for the other seekers.

"Even if it's safer than getting caught by Dan, with all these sheets, Clav could be hiding in plain sight..." Sam lamented as she scanned the room. "We don't even know what he looks like under it, for all we know, he could've been one of those statues we uncovered."

She frowned at one of them as she read its label, the abstract mass of human features mashed together in clay form was named 'Self Portrait 8'.

"I think we'd have a worse problem if we were trying this in Emily's room. I bet it looks exactly how your room did when you were five; bright pink with a million stuffed animals and other porcelain dolls. Less hiding spots for us, but more places to hide in plain sight for her." Tucker unhelpfully added.

"Ugh, don't remind me..." Sam cringed as she thought back to how her mother went absolutely overboard on overly girly and cute things before she pushed back and established her identity.

"Well, we're not staying here forever." Danny panted. "We just need to find the others and get them on each other's backs instead of ours.."

Tucker pulled out his PDA thinking he might be able to use Aster's tech to catch the others.

"...Or, we could wake Vlad up and make *him* deal with his nightmare spawn while we escape."

"That... works too." Danny was mentally kicking himself for not thinking of that while Dan was chasing them.

"Found you!"

As the living doll popped out of seemingly nowhere, Danny punted her on reflex, sending her hurling into the wall and breaking her head clean off her neck.

"Y-you...!" The doll's voice turned from cheery to eerie and angry, as she spoke, spider legs taller than a full grown adult squirmed and staggered as they forced their way out of the neck hole of the broken doll. "You broke my face and limbs, RUINED my bows, and dirtied my nice pink dress! I'll make you pay for this!"

The trio fled as the headless doll chased them, but now that they had a goal in mind, they sped off to the Master bedroom, but the closer they got, the more Seekers joined the chase, going from just the spider-doll to the spider, the twins, the sheet ghost, the spaceman, and even Flynn, who was throwing spears at them which Danny was just narrowly dodging. Seeing Flynn attack them must've reminded the others that they had projectiles themselves as Danny soon also found himself dodging an array of ectoblasts.

The closer they got, the more hectic and stronger the group's attacks got until Danny flung the bedroom door open and started shaking the sleeping man.

"Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!" They frantically repeated as the Masters children were on the brink of capturing them.

Out of desperation, Danny yanked Vlad up and hid behind him with the intent to use him as a human shield which was lucky for Danny, but unlucky for Flynn as a spear intended for Danny's head instead found itself lunged in Vlad's torso.

"GAHK!"

"Uncle!" Flynn called out in instantaneous regret.

Disoriented confusion quickly gave way to lividness as Vlad pulled the spear out of his chest. "Aster! Clav! Dan! Danielle! Emily! Flynn! What on earth do you think all of you are doing at this hour?!"

"Wait! Daddy! W-we can explain!" the headless doll stammered "Those cretins behind you broke into the house and we were scared!"

"The invading Earthlings even attacked us!" Aster gestured to his damaged suit and Emily's broken neck. "We felt we had no other option!"

Vlad shot the trio behind him a glare. "I'll deal with you three later." He then turned back to his own hoard of kids and crossed his arms while tapping his foot. "Then why didn't you think of waking me up to deal with it first or when things were getting rough? For all you know, things could've gotten a lot worse! In fact, where's your brother Brutus?! Did something happen to him?!"

The six nervously fidgeted.

"Er.. well..." Aster tapped his index fingers together.

"Uh..." Clav wrung his hands

"Maybe he.." Danielle started before shaking her head.

"hmm..." Flynn bit his lip and held his chin.

"Um..." Emily pulled at her dress's ribbons.

"I think he got lost..?" Dan shrugged while nervously smiling.

Vlad gave the six a tired frown.

To Danny, there was something unnerving yet satisfying about watching his nemesis dragging his evil future self out the room and down the hallway by the ear while carrying the other five horrors under his arm like a football. Aster's expression was unreadable as was Emily's due to one being headless and the other's featureless fishbowl head being damaged, but Danielle and Clav looked like they were dreading an upcoming punishment while Flynn looked completely devastated and racked with guilt.

But the trio couldn't stick around to watch the six get their just desserts, not unless they wanted to be next. So they snuck back to the lab to escape through the ghost portal.

...Only to find it was still closed and locked.

"Darn it!" Danny exclaimed and punched the metal. "All of that and we're all still stuck here?!"

"...Caught ya."

Danny flinched as he felt a large hand on his shoulder. He whipped around in a second with the intent to shoot only for the large guy to put his hands up, gesturing that he wasn't a threat.

"Woah there! I said before that I just want to talk..."

"...About what?" Danny lowered his charging ectoblast.

"How to get you three back home while the portal's on emergency lock-down for starters? I've got a car and a license, it's not the *fastest* method by any means, but it beats walking and it's less exhausting than carrying two people while flying across states."

"Wait, you *want* to help us?" Tucker raised an eyebrow. "Why?"

"I have questions only you guys can answer." Brutus gestured for the three of them to follow him. "So do you wanna ride or wait for my dad to send you guys home?"

"The ride!"

"We definitely want the ride!"

The trio were quick to follow the hulking brute after realizing that their alternatives were far worse options.

The car he led them to was a black crew cab truck with neon green glow-in-the-dark ghosts all over it in patterns that reminded the three of those hot rod flame patterned cars.

"Woah..."

"Cool!"

The boys exclaimed while Sam rolled her eyes.

"I painted it myself." Brutus grinned at the car proudly as he unlocked it.

The trio and the brute got into the car and sped off, while it was a long way to go, the quicker they got home, the better.

"So you said you had questions only *we* can answer, what are they?" Tucker asked the driver as they got to their first stop light.

"What's Jack Fenton like?"

"Wait, Vlad didn't tell you?" Danny raised an eyebrow.

"He hates talking about him in my earshot, in all my siblings' earshots too... And I think he blocked everything mentioning him in his electronic files, so I can't read them." Brutus explained. "Don't get me wrong, I love my family, but I guess I'm curious and I want to learn about the forbidden family, but without meeting them in person. I mean, at best they'll think I'm some kinda outta wedlock lovechild between Jack and Dad, and at worst... I don't wanna think about it."

"Oh.." Danny thought it over for a while "Well, my dad's tall, built like a wall, you probably got it from him, he has black hair, bluish brown eyes, and he's a ghost hunter, both my parents are, really. He's also an inventor, but he mostly makes... ghost hunting gadgets..."

"I take it he doesn't know about...?" Brutus gestured to Danny's ghost form.

"...Neither of my parents do." Danny nodded.

"So it's normal for families to keep secrets..." The outlier Masters thought out loud while noticing that the red light turned green and drove off.

"Well you and I are specific and unusual cases.."

"I didn't mean to phrase it like it's a bad thing!" Brutus clarified. "It's just... I don't really have a good frame of reference for 'normal'. I'm physically and mentally in my... mid twenties I think? but I've only existed for a handful of months and I think that my dad, siblings and I are all pretty unusual. There's the ghost stuff, dad being a billionaire that collects weird artifacts in the Ghost Zone, one of my siblings being a human raised by ghosts before dad found him, another being a poltergeist, me and four of my siblings being grown in capsules like those foam ghosts that you grow in water..." He listed off before realizing he was getting off track. "Anyway, I can look at something and know that just because it's a MASTERS normal doesn't mean it's normal to everyone else, but finding out what *is* really normal is pretty hard for me."

"..So what is your secret, big guy?" Tucker piped up in the back seat. "If it's not this midnight run, I mean."

"Dad and my siblings don't know that I'm actually made with Jack and Vlad's DNA."

"...What?!" the trio exclaimed as they stared wide eyed at the driver.

"How?!"

"How...?" He raised an eyebrow. "Oh! That, well dad had put a temporary pause on project T.H.A.W. because his hands full with Clav and Flynn and their odd circumstances, but when he got back to it and started trying to make me, he grabbed both the wrong human DNA sample and the wrong halfa DNA sample. Unlike Flynn, he didn't get my DNA tested because 'Jack has a very distinctive build' so there wasn't any doubt on who my human gene donor was and unlike Clav, I didn't show any signs or symptoms of ecto-acne so he never saw any reason to double check."

"And how did you figure out you're made with Vlad's DNA if *he* didn't know?"

As Danny asked the question and actually studied the driver's features, Brutus's secret seemed less 'secret' to him. In fact, he was almost kicking himself for needing to be told. The other clones had *his* features, Dan, Danielle, and Aster were literal copies of him, Clav was a skeleton and it still had his face shape, but Brutus? Everything that suggested that he a Fenton in blood came from Danny's Dad's DNA, not Danny's DNA itself. And while he still saw his dad in Brutus, he also started to see the Vlad in him, like the more triangular shape of his body as opposed to Jack's square body type (maybe he would've had Vlad's hourglass body type if he wasn't as beefy or big boned) or the shape of the chimera's head not perfectly matching up with Jack's (although definitely having the Fenton Patriarch's chin), but looking more like Vlad's.

"I compared and contrasted my DNA with the lab samples after I saw a picture of dad back in his college days. He and I had the same gray-ish color stripe." He tapped on said gray streak on his Mohawk for emphasis. "I got rid of the test and put the picture back where I found it after I found out. Dad already worries a lot about Clav getting sick again, I don't want him to worry twice as much, you know? Plus there's also Flynn, Emily, Aster, the twins..." Brutus shrugged. "Plus, I'm a good problem solver, so why bug dad about a problem after I fixed it myself?"

"...Did you ever get Ecto-ance before..?" Sam gave the driver and his suddenly suspicious faint circular scars on his arms, shoulders, and face a quizzical look.

"Yeah, but I scratched it off so no reason to worry."

"...You. Scratched. It. Off."

"Yup, with a cheese grater."

The trio gawked at the brute who refused to elaborate, perhaps sparing their sanity by bringing his ramblings to an end for now. After a handful of songs on the radio, Sam piped up again.

"There's something that's been bugging me about all of this... How come you're the only one of Vlad's kids who's NOT evil when you're one of the most Vlad of them..?"

"The answer I think you're looking for is 'we're more than the sum of our parts'. -Parts in this case being what our parents made us out of. But if you ask me, I think that 'evil' would be too strong of a word for any of us, really..." Brutus rubbed his thumb against the steering wheel. "Flynn's a human raised by ghosts in the ghost zone, that's not evil, that's a wild child trying to adjust to a domesticated world with varying results. Imagine being raised by wolves all your life, then getting brought to human civilization by a werewolf. That's Flynn's situation. Danielle's struggling with identity issues being a twin on top of being a clone and all, while figuring out who she is, she is gonna act out and get mean, it's frustrating being constantly compared to your siblings by others even when you love them. Clav *talks* big villainy stuff but never really tries anything, it just likes making art and being spooky and angsty. Aster has a similar thing going on but with him but instead of art he LARPs as his Space-alien bounty hunter OC 24/7. I don't know about you but only "evil" for the aesthetic doesn't really count as evil in my eyes... Emily's a poltergeist, a ghost that doesn't have a physical form of her own like you and I do so she needs to rely on a vessel and things she is capable of interacting with. I'm sure you'd be really possessive of certain objects too if they were your only way of communicating with the world and you'd get *furious* if someone damaged or broke those things. Dan? There's a lot of unresolved grief and anger that comes with losing everyone you love, your entire emotional support network to the arbitrary decisions of the universe and blaming it on something as dumb as cheating a standardized test and getting a new support group doesn't automatically resolve that, especially when that support group *also* has a ton of issues..."

"Wait, wait, wait... You know about Dan's past?!"

"He had a panic attack when Dad caught him cheating on some kind of brain test to make sure we're sentient and stuff and just kinda... spilled everything. He and dad had a lot of long talks after that, also timeline police showed up but I don't know a lot about what happened after that, but he's getting... less murderous! Occasionally. ...Still really bitter about the time cops though."

"And you and your siblings are all... cool with it..?"

"Yeah, why wouldn't we be? Ghost from another timeline that possessed a stillborn fully human clone to hide from time cops isn't too weird considering everybody else in the Masters clan... Are we a dysfunctional family? Definitely. Unhinged? Some of us more than others... Overenthusiastic Drama Queens? Hell yeah! Some of us never even drop our gimmicks! Dangerous, especially when compared to the average household of regular human beings? Oh yeah." He nodded. "But evil? There's bad, we Masters can fit into the bad category, I'm not arguing against that, and then there's evil..."

"And where do you draw the line between the two?"

"Bad people do things solely for their own benefit or do things out of proportion to hurt those who hurt them. While they do things that are hurtful to themselves and or others, it's not without purpose, there's motives behind why they do what they do and how they act, lines they won't cross, feeling remorse for what they do at times... Evil people? They also do things solely for their own benefit or do things out of proportion to hurt those who hurt them. Sometimes there's motives and explanations but those are optional with evil people, unlike with bad people, evil people have no lines they wont cross to get what they want. Evil people don't feel remorse at all... Some of them even relish in the pain they inflict to others..."

"Okay..." Tucker uncomfortably fidgeted as he thought of how to steer the conversation to something less grim before he noticed the 'A nice place to live' billboard. "We made it back to Amity already!? What type of horsepower do you have under that hood?"

"Standard engine I think, the *real* horsepower comes from ghost power." Brutus chuckled before checking the map. "...Do you guys mind if I drop you off at the Nasty Burger? I don't know where you live."

"Oh yeah, sure."

"Cool." Brutus nodded in acknowledgement as he pulled up to the restaurant, letting the trio out. "Also, can you do me a favor and not tell my dad or siblings I dropped you off..? Getting grounded is easier than being the only sibling *not* grounded."

"Sure thing, and thanks for the ride!" Danny waved the ghost truck off as the only one of his new strange cousins he liked so far started his long drive home.

After Brutus was gone, Danny returned his friends to their perspective homes and made it back to his own, flopping on his bed and ready to spend the dawning Saturday sleeping through the entire weekend.

Write a fic where Vlad has a kid

Biological

Adopted

au where Dani is his half-ghost child he loves,

A full-ghost (lots of room here)

Maybe the other clones survive too so he has 5 kids now

the other clones are intelligent so he has 4 kids and no need to make a prime clone

kidnapping

Wishes for a kid and Desiree grants his wish

maybe he has a pet goat

#danny phantom #danny fenton #sam manson #tucker foley #vlad plasmius #vlad masters #danielle phantom #dan phantom #flynn fenton #failed clones #dp oc #fanfic

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satoshy12 · 2 years ago

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Danny liked it to spent time with Clockwork, and most fun are the missions he is send by the Old Ghost. Few are dangerous but most are pretty fun. He liked to see the other timelines and similiar helping the people and their lifes. Not knowing that he made a huge impact in that life and the hurt when he left.

As he was in this new Dimension the first thing he noticed was he was in his core. The one that finds him was Wonder Woman with the Justice League, they thought it was a Weapon that had fallen out of the Portal. Kind of like a Weaker Mother Box. They took him with them to the Watchtower. It took him not long to get outside the core like a chicken. While a meeting of the Heroes what to do with him.

They chose to let him stay in the tower and had stopped Batman from taking him just with him. Even after his dibs.

Once reborn of his Core, he aged himself up quickly into a child. Danny without a question was the biggest fan of Martian Manhunter. It was for him. Coolest uncle J'onn best Alien, Uncle Kal boring Alien, Cool Aunt Shayera, Granny Diana (she is SUPER OLD!), Batdibs, Funny Uncle Flash and Cool Uncle Lantern. Kal was not happy he was boring alien uncle for his human looks, but he got him over with applecakes. J'onn liked to talk about Mars, Danny loved to listen to it. Batman was the reason his first word was Dibs, but he was a good caretaker Hal Jorden was turned cool uncle as he learned he worked in the Airforce Flash was just funny and brought fast laughs for him Shayera was still cool Aunt, for she was a Alien Soldier even if she talked much about the evil race Gordanians. Maybe he will send a attack against them later. Diana had worked hard to get him to stop calling her Granny. She gave up after a time and gave Flash the Fault, she would have gotten mom but he just had to say she would be more a Granny then mother with her AGE! Yes Flash wasn't in Watch Tower for few weeks after that. And her mother Hippolyta was not happy that the Amazons are now Super Grannies as she visited Lord Hades because of his underworld nature.

After few months Danny noticed that a Portal had open up near him almost 1 feet, he was aged up to his original age and Clockworks hand pulled him out of the dimension as if he was never there in the first place only with the memories and the videos to see what happened.

The Justice League wants their boy back. Clockworks plan worked and they are now much deeper team like a whole family. They would do anything to bring him back to them.

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cowade · 2 years ago

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DP x DC

what if Danny was supposed to be Robin or part of the bat family but was nerfed by clockwork accidentally killing him and fucking up the time line.

Maybe if people come in contact with someone broken away from fate they’ll also become distanced with the original timeline so clockwork had to contain Danny in amity to avoid causing a bigger mess and not anger the fates any more than they were.

So basically what if clockwork set the ghosts after Danny? As like a distraction as he tried to stable the new event with the others and weave out previous events that would’ve taken place with the planned ones. Afterlife can be boring so he took the most rambunctious ghosts he could find and hired them to cause trouble. Like why would ghosts like ember and shulker specifically choose to go here? There infinite places to go throughout the realms like millions of different Dimensions some of which at least have a way to interact with. Each with tons of things they could use to fulfill their obsessions. So why would they choose to go to some random town in Illinois if not for clockwork bribing them with a cool ‘animal’ or tons of ‘pop fans looking for a new idol’

So what if Danny finds out about clockwork sending the ghosts and gets mad at him cause he knowingly allowed these powerful beings to torment him and maybe cause a large accident or what ever like killing some people or somthn. Maybe his family. Anywho he runs on his own cause angst and revenge, wanting to piss the time god off. A time god who was not done fixing the time line and had got some very pissed fate sisters on his tail. So maybe Danny runs into hero’s or the Batfamily and has this wierd feeling around them. Like a deja vu or a ‘I have very faint,wierd memories of you’ type thing. So they kinda click fast (or hate each other, perhaps there was some planned drama that didn’t happen) and become friends. They can kinda tell something is up with each other I.e superheroing/vigalintie-ing. So hero’s wanna help this weird kid they think is a meta hero and Danny wants to learn more about someone who could be a well known hero. But suddenly clockwork comes in or maybe a sent lackey and kidnapped Danny cause he’s now causing major timeline problems. Hero’s or Batfamily notice that the probably meta hero kid is missing and think something bad happened and get worried so they dig deeper. Meanwhile clockworks trying to deal with containing the teenage rage and angst of a kidnapped child while that fates give him pissed looks as he tries to fix the timeline again. Also p.s. the deja vu feelings are leftover memories of the future events clockwork has fixed yet if you didn’t get it

#dc x dp #dp x dc #dp crossover

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angelheartgamer · 2 years ago

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I literally do not know how to use Tumblr in a way that matters, but I am here to scream into the void and beg for someone to take interest in this stupid fucking dp x p5R crossover please

Danny phantom x persona 5 Royal

Danny would be the death confidante for Akechi, since Akechi would have his own set obviously, he actually doesn't have all the major Arcana tho, only

the tower:Shido

Death: Danny

Judgment: sai

The fool: joker

The hermit : futaba ?(much later)

Akechi himself is the justice card still even from his own perspective.

Danny would be the ace of hearts for joker

Futaba being Goro's half-sister is canon here because I said so.

Also, Danny is 16, akechi is 18 here, because,,,,little brother vibes

Akechi enrolls Danny into jokers school, he meets Sumire and they hang out a bit, which is how he meets joker and through joker, Futaba omg Danny Futaba and Sumi cause the most chaos as a trio, perfect

Akechi, Yusuke, and Hifumi all go to the same school, but because akechi is a 3rd year they don't interact pretty much at all.

Danny upon meeting joker for the first time: you should date my dad actually

As a timeline note, Danny shows up when the actual pt are working on Makoto's palace so that I can have my space station time, but also because,,,,hehe plot.

Danny and akechi making each other realize they were victims of extreme abuse

Akechi much later allowing Danny to absolutely fuck his reputation to fuck with Shido, but also because they're teaching each other how to just be kids. God mutual healing for them pls

Danny upon telling akechi he's king of the infinite realms like: so even if you die, you're still stuck with me

A Kechi not knowing why or how this American teenager is speaking fluent Japanese to him

Danny who doesn't know he's speaking Japanese, or even that he's in Japan for like the first MONTH he's there

Ohya is the one that gets the shot of a Kechi and Danny in shibuya, them trying to sell Danny as akechis "son" is so so funny to me because he's literally only 2 years younger than him, so it's not possible, but they sure did run the article

This is not a Danny gets yeeted to a new universe au the metaverse is just a smaller dimension that exists right between the infinite realms and earth, so in a way ghosts are just shadows after death, shadows form from the self within the self, and if they progress for long enough, once that person dies, their shadow becomes a ghost, it's why even though not all ghosts are evil, there's a lot of them that are

Tucker and Futaba would either be absolute best friends who already knew each other through the hacking community or worst enemies and I can't decide what's better

Futaba is the one to tell tucker and sam that Danny is alive and ok, because Danny is stupid and doesn’t think to tell them

Danny and Akechi paint each other's nails as a form of bonding

Ghost king Danny, ghost speak, blacklight ectoplasm, I just think they're neat

A half written first chapter for this stg I am not writing more someone else do it please

Danny ends up yeeted into Japan after the last episode of his original series, except it didn't go as well as canon, his parents had only faked their acceptance, in all truth once they'd gotten home, he'd been subjected to months of experimenting, jazz had left for college soon after and didn't know anything and Danny, poor Danny, was letting this all happen to himself because he had convinced himself it was out of love, for the greater good. Eventually, he was broken out of this cycle by his friends who'd spent this whole time trying to free him, and once they did they beelined it for the ghost portal, to get as far away as they could, they took Danny to clockwork as they assumed he'd know best what to do next, and he did. He sent Danny to akechi and his friends back to their homes.

Danny, now with extreme PTSD and lots of new scars to go with it, is completely out of it when he first bumps into akechi. He just kinda ends up in the middle of Akechi's living room, staring at his hands and silently crying, and akechi, who just got home from school and watched this child fall out out a portal onto his carpet, considers calling the police for a second before realizing if he filed a report like that it would absolutely fuck his image, headlines like "detective prince akechi finally snapped?" "Child star gone crazy!" "Young detective claims child 'fell out of portal' more on this at 9" and ultimately decides that he will deal with this problem himself. Armed with his (fake because it's for the metaverse and legally he can't own one) gun akechi slowly approaches him and nudges the back of his head, and suddenly his problem disappears, quite literally, into thin air.

Danny, who absolutely panicked at being broken out of his meltdown by the feeling of cold metal against the back of his head (hmmmm how many things could this remind him of, so so many) had gone invisible and fuckin booked it to the closest corner, his mind not clear enough to get him any further, and his energy not high enough to sustain the invisibility. He was curled in a ball arms crossed out in front of him in an attempt to shield himself.

Akechi snaps to attention as suddenly the child is back but in a completely different location, seemingly much more afraid than before. Akechi thinks about it for a moment before lowering his gun and kneeling onto one knee from where he stood, raising his hands in a sign of surrender, to try and show he no longer means harm.

"Hey, it's ok, can I get you some water?"

Clearly being on the offensive wasn't going to make progress and now akechi was much more interested in this boy than he had been.

He runs through a list of things he was taught to do to deescalate a situation. Try basic questions, offer reassurance, space, and make sure not to move too quickly or unpredictably, that last one will be a little hard since his guest is in an unknown place so no matter what he does it'll be unpredictable.

Danny lowered his hands which had started shaking, waiting for the hurt, the next step, something, after hearing the older boy in front of him speak, he said something about water? Danny thought for a moment, this is all a trap, or not real, or both, or maybe hey, just maybe he finally actually died. In which case, the actions he was now taking meant nothing anyways. He opened his mouth to speak but only a hoarse impression of an attempt at speech came out, so instead, he nodded. He was so entirely unsure of his situation, and the tears wouldn't stop, god he just wanted to help, he did everything they asked, so why did it never sto- Danny closed his eyes painfully tight and repeated the word no to himself mentally in an attempt to stop his thoughts from going where they were.

Akechi winced at the sound of the boy's voice, could it even be called that, but took note of the small nod and stood to go retrieve water. Once he had the drink in hand he stood about 5 feet away from the boy and spoke again.

"Can I come over and hand this to you?" He needs to make sure not to send him further into whatever sort of attack he was having, so being overly careful about all his actions was the least he could do.

Danny he was just barely starting to regain his ability to actually breathe, shook his head no rapidly, but had no idea how to communicate his wants without his voice.

"I'll just set it on the floor right here then and go back to where I was"

Was this man an angel? How did he know what Danny wanted, when he hadn't spoken a word? Danny gave an agreeing shake to his head this time and waited for the man to go back and sit down before essentially crawling over to the cup. He relished in the feeling of the water running down his throat, of the concept of kindness being shown to him, for the first time in months.

Akechi waited for the boy to calm fully and seem more at ease before saying he was going to get bedding for him, he'd set him up on the couch, and get him some food (not that akechi had much to offer, but he was sure he could find something) and letting him rest for the night.

What a strange fucked up situation this was, akechi wasn't sure how to feel about any of it, but he did have a growing sense of pity for the boy. He'd clearly been through something, and the whole falling out of thin air onto his floor definitely didn't help. Goro didn't exactly want to subject this child to the things he himself had been through when Shido was experimenting with his abilities, so he'd keep him confined to his house for now while he sorted it all out. On the other hand, akechi doesn't trust this unknown at all, so he'd call in sick to school in the morning, and take a few days off, his grades shouldn't suffer too much given his aptitude for memorization, but it wouldn't exactly be pleasant either.

Speaking of unpleasant things, akechi checks his phone for the time, and looks at the news before sighing and softly telling the boy he was going to sleep, and pointing out where his room and the bathroom were in case either was needed. Goro also knew in the back of his mind somewhere that telling this stranger who had literally disappeared and reappeared right in front of his eyes earlier, where he slept wasn't exactly the brightest idea, but he also knew he wouldn't be sleeping tonight, too busy researching and trying to figure anything he could out. He'd even need to be careful of what he looked into though, considering the kind of mistrust and surveillance Shido had of him, wouldn't want to tip him off now would we?

Danny took the bedding given to him and hulled himself up in a corner ready to stay awake the rest of the night on high alert, or he would have if it wasn't suddenly a completely different time of day, Danny swears he only blinked but in that moment his body must have shut down, after such a long period of abuse and lost sleep, it must have deemed this a safe enough environment to sleep. What had woken him up though was the sound of something falling, he assumes it came from the kitchen nearby, but he hadn't been conscious enough on the outside to process anything else that happened, in fact, he'd almost immediately started panicking again.

Goro poked his head into the living room to see the boy wide awake and staring into nothing with a sense of panic. He wanted to apologize, but he felt speaking and startling the kid out of that state would only make it worse. Maybe he himself had needed to sleep more than he'd imagined though, because as bad at cooking as he was, dropping a frying pan was a new one. What was he even doing with the pan to begin with? He couldn't remember now, the pounding sound had rattled his brain too much.

#danny phantom #persona 5 royal #goro akechi #danny fenton #they have a sibling bond #please they both need so kuch therapy #there's only so much jazz can do #danny does spend the entire time trying to set up akechi and joker

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