#Team Phantom believes him because he figured out Danny didn't he?

[boopjuice]

They all break their rules. Within about 6 weeks.

Wes, obviously, meets Red Robin and charms him with his word vomit. He's also charmed by Red Robin because damn, that suit does wonders for him, and because Red Robin is intentionally flirting at the adorable idiot he just saved.

Next is Tuck. They haven't been able to find the book in the private library but they know Tim has the book. They know because Tucker found signs of hidden doors. And, well, they really need to get Danny back in Amity Park, so he figures Sam will forgive him for a little hacking.

Que then using Wes to distract Tim, who gets an alert halfway through the conversation that someone's hacking into his home security system to try and gain access to his Nest. And unfortunately, he can't find a way to excuse himself to defend his own system.

Tuck gets to duke it out with Oracle. He loses, and hightails it back to where they were staying. With the laptop he was just hacking with.

That Oracle is definitely tracking now.

Then Danny. Sam find out about Tuck breaking his rule and goes on a very long rant before they realize the laptop Tuck was using? Yeah, that's probably compromised. Good thing it didn't have any personal information on it, we'll just leave it here and go find another spot to stay!

Cut to four teens dragging luggage behind them in the middle of Gotham, all trying to find a place to stay. They looks like tourists. They look like easy targets.

So a gang jumps them, and while none of the team are slouches in a fight, there's just too many to reasonably take on. So Danny, while Sam is screaming about "Not you too!", becomes Phantom just long enough to knock out and tie up the gang.

Sam gives him the biggest earful when he's done. AND they still need to find a hotel while they look for another apartment.

The Bats are searching. They find the first apartment, trace it back to the teens, and are now actively hunting them down because why are four teens trying to hack into the Bat systems?

They manage to track them back to their hotel, which was pretty hard with Tucker covering their tracks, but not impossible. They find them right as Ivy decides to attack this block because it was originally contracted to be a green space for the city for at least another 50 years, but someone did some shady shit and broke the contract.

Sam? Is so tired. Wes broke his rule. Tucker broke his rule. Even Danny, who was the one to suggest having rules in the first place, broke his rule. AND HE'D COME UP WITH THAT ONE!

So Sam figures it's about time that she gets to break her rule too.

And in the middle of a fight between Poison Ivy, Batman, Red Hood, Red Robin, and Orphan, Sam Manson marches out onto the battlefield and rips Ivy a new one. What good is she doing, harming innocent people and reducing the amount of places they could stay? Fixing the coral reefs would have significantly more positive impact on the world, so would fighting deforestation, which seems much more up Ivy's alley. But no, she's actively harming her cause by destroying people's lives, in the process making activism harder for other people, like Sam, who also want a greener planet.

Ivy tries to attack Sam, but she's Undergrowth's student. That's not about to happen. The plants can like Ivy all they want for her ties with the Green, they aren't going to attack someone personally tied to the Grey (I saw a head canon somewhere that instead of Sam being associated with plants, she should be associated with the Grey, which feeds into decay and reintroducing nutrients through that decay and I'm sticking with it).

Once the fight is over and the dust settles, all four Bats corner the teens, ignoring the stars in their eyes, because they really need to know why four high school juniors decided to try and break into their systems.

To which Tucker says, very helpfully, "We weren't? We just needed to get into Tim Drake's private library so we could find a ritual to help our friend."

The Bats have many, many more questions.

DCxDP Fic idea: What's the Rule again?

It starts with Wes Weston accidentally banishing Danny from his haunt. He didn't mean to, and he panicked along side Sam and Tucker when Danny was effectively evicted Danny from Amity Park.

See the four have become tight-knited friends every since the trio started talking to Wes back during the summer between freshman and sophomore year.

During that time, Wes's other friends had drifted apart once Wes' attention moved from basketball to ghosts- specifically Phantom. Danny had felt at fault that he was left a loner because of his secret identity and had invited Wes to sit with them at the Nasty Burger the second week of Summer break.

Wes was suprise to find out that Sam, Tucker and Danny were much better friends then the ones he hanged out with since third grade. He was used to people only speaking to him in class or the few times they hang out on breaks but the trio would message him about every single thought or meme they had. They could laugh togther until tears fell from thier eyes and they couldn't breath over the silliest of topics.

Wes also found out that the trio was supportive of all their interests. Sure, his old teammates and friends didn't make fun of him for crocheting or painting, but they wouldn't accompany him to an art market. Nor would they actually wear the scarves and gloves he made them.

They sure as hell didn't volunteer to help him run a booth to sell his own crocheting pieces after encouraging him to get a table. And they wouldn't cheer loudly when he made his first sale.

Wes also wouldn't have happily gone with them to an observatory, a Dark Poem Night, or even a tech expo. But he found that he had the time of his life watching Danny, Sam, and Tucker nerd out at the events much as much as he did at his own.

He also never had anyone he knew would be down to do him favors or even take notes for him when he was out sick.

So he became close friends with them, passing sophomore year with far more enjoyment than any other grade, then Junior year came and went just as fast and as fun. It was their last summer as high school students, so Wes wanted to do as many new activities as the four could together before Senior year.

Who knew what would happen to their little group after graduation? He wants to think they would all remain best friends but he's heard so many stories of people drifting apart that Wes was afraid of risking it.

That's why he researched urban myths and legends around the world regarding ghosts- more then any research paper he's ever done- and jokingly asked Danny to partake in some of them as a halfa.

They joked and laughed- throwing salt in a circle around Danny, lighting a candle for him to use Morse code with- but it wasn't until Wes got to the one where he tried smoking Danny out with a banishing spell he found in an old book that things turned from funny to horrible.

It worked

Danny was flung from his haunt- effectively banishing him from the area he was haunting. Dann just happens to be haunting all of Amity Park, so he ends up on the outskirts of town, unable to cross the invisible line.

Wes practically choked on his tears as he apologized for Danny not being able to cross back in, but the other three quickly informed him that they, too, took part in it, and it was no one's fault. Danny just had to find a way to reverse the banishing spell.

The only problem was that the book pages Wes found online were only on the banish spell itself and nothing else. He couldn't even find the whole book since it belonged in a private family library.

The family library was located in the most dangerous city in America. Gotham.

The library also belongs to a very wealthy family that had recently all but perished except for their lone heir- Timothy Drake.

Now Wes attempted to contact Timothy Drake in hopes of having the other teenager send him copies of the book, but he never got a reply. He thinks it was due to not explaining why he needed the book and ending up sounding like a bot or a scam.

With each passing day of Drake not responding Danny's situation grew worse. Jazz luckily covered for them, claiming to have signed Danny up for some camp so his parents wouldn't think he was missing.

That would only work until school started, which was a time limit that was weighing on all their shoulders as they tried to find a counterspell.

Jazz, Tucker, Sam, and Wes each took turns driving out of town to bring him food and a change of clothes so Danny could figure out his situation, having to do it in shifts to not alert any of their parents.

However, without his haunt to pick up natural exoplasm, Danny was growing weaker and weaker by the day, looking half stave out in the little motel room Sam rented for him as they tried to get him back into the town.

Danny needed to either make his way back to his haunt or go somewhere that was so infected with ectoplasm that it actually felt cursed.

Tucker found the solution to all their problems with a few hacking skills that he learned to fight off Technus' invasive attempts of his personal tech.

"A full ride to Gotham Academy?" Wes' mom gasped staring at the acceptance letter her son eagerly showed her. "With a promised full ride to any university in America?!"

"Yeah, Tucker, Sam, Danny, and I all got accepted for our work on clean energy generators. We sent it in for the Wayne scholarship, and we won! The only thing is that it's a requirement to graduate from high school in Gotham. I have to go!" Wes gasped, eyeing both his dad's and Kyle's doubtful frowns. He couldn't afford for them to say no when Tucker had worked so hard to bump them up as Winners. Bruce Wayne's computer security is no joke. "This is the once in a life time opportunity!"

"But where would you live?" His dad asks, shaking the letter. "Wes, this is clear across states, and it only covers school expenses."

"Sam's parents bought her a house. She's going to rent us some of the extra rooms." It was a lie; her parents would never let four boys- especially these boys- rent from their daughter. She told them that the school provided co-dorm rooms "I can get a job at the local library- I already sent them my resume and got a call for a interview."

"What will you do for food?" Kyle asks. "We both know you can't cook."

"I can't, but Danny does. He's amazing in the kitchen."

Here, his parents share a loaded look. "So you'll be living with the Fenton boy....."

"Well. Yeah? I already said that?" He returns, confused, and Kuule coughs to cover a laugh. Confused he stares at his older brother, who quirks a grin at him.

"Don't worry about it." Kyle laughs, but his wiggling eyebrows tell Wes he should worry a lot about it. He would inisit a little more to find out what Kyle knew, but he needed to convince his parents more.

Eventually, after five days of attempting, Wes got their permission and could tell his friends, who all shared the same results. The remainder of the summer is spent preparing for their move- finding the house, getting it furnished, packing their things, transferring schools- it's a lot, and he's never been so grateful for Sam's wealth.

She hires people to get it all done for her-including hiring a trailer to take their four cars-, so he only has to worry about his packing. The four meet up at the airport on the day they live, flying first class thanks to Sam's grandmother.

Tearful goodbyes and good luck from their families leave them all a bit down but they board the plane and take off without too much trouble.

While on the plane, Sam turns to the boys. "Does everyone remember the phases of the plan?"

"Phase one: Blend into Gotham until we find Timothy Drake" Tucker states, pushing up his glasses

"Phase two: Get Drake to invite us over to his house and find the book," Danny tacks on, tapping his foot on the ground.

"Phase three: Find all the pieces for the counterspell- usually scattered around the magical family's ancestral home- and get Danny home!" Wes shouts, raising a fist in the air.

Sam nods, looking satisfied. "And what are we not allowed to do? Danny?"

"Become a vigilante when my ectoplasm is on a limited intake" Danny grumbles, sinking into his chair. "Let it to the Bats and keep my head low."

"Good. Tucker?"

"I'm not allowed to hack into anything because it can gain the attention of the Bats or Mr.Wayne, and then we'll be on a wanted list" Tucker sighs "No matter how much fun it would be to battle it out with the legendary Oracle."

"That's right. I'm not allowed to go anywhere near Poison Ivy no matter how much I want to yell at her to go fix the coal riffs and cut down forests instead of wasting her powers on the stupid heist." Same all but bites, and then she turns her attention to Wes, who startles.

"Wes?"

"Wait, I have a rule?"

"Course, man," Tucker laughs. "We all have rules."

"But I'm not interesrted in anything in Gotham besides the Drake grimoire!"

"Wes," Danny says gently, his soft baby blue eyes making him a little hot under the collar as they stare into his soul. "You're not allowed to fall in love with any of the Bats."

Wes mind blanks, then reboots, "Excuse me!?"

"We know you had a crush on all of us here Wes and Val" Sam laughs when he turns wide eyes at her. "It's cute but you really shouldn't try for the Bats. They're the violent sort"

"What?!"

"Yeah, you have a type, and it's a hero or hero adjacent." Tucker shrugs "It's cool."

Wes can only gape at them, no matter how much he tries to convince them; otherwise, the three refuse to remove his rule. He is highly offended by it.

Yes, he's never really gone out with Team Phantom, just because when he joined the group, most of Danny's rouges were long gone leaving behind the tiny ones that he could handle on his own, but he wasn't into heroes!

And okay- maybe, maybe at one point or another he may have had slight crushes on his friends but they were quick and gone before the first school year together!

So the rule is utterly ridiculous!

At least, he thinks so until five days later when he's trying to find his way around the new neighborhood and gets caught up in a mugging. He could have quickly taken the mugger- humans had nothing on ghosts- but he attempted to talk the young adult out of it when Red Robin swooped in like a knight in shining armor.

He may have just stared at the hero's tight-skin outfit instead of letting the hero know that he could handle it, and he may have made a fool of himself when Red Robin asked if he was right.

"Yeah tots fine" He babbles. Ugh, who says tots?! He wants to stop talking but when Wes gets nervous he tends to just word vomit and he could hear himself doing it now. "You know who else is fine?"

Red Robbin raises a brow, likely knowing the pickup line. Cowering, Wes changes the answer in a panic. "Timothy Drake!"

Red Robin stills. "Come again?"

"Timothy Drake, a boy in my class! He's fine that you think he was part siren or something. You've seen him, right? I mean you have eyes!" He repeats with a squeal "I want to get into his private liberty!"

"Do you?" Red Robin tilts his head, a slight smirk forming on his mouth. "You should try flirting with him then. Maybe he can give you a tour."

"Oh, I want more than a tour!"

Why did he say that?!

At least the hero in front of him laughs until a shout has them both looking away.

Danny is running down the street screaming his name, thank the Ancients. When Wes turns around to wave at him, Red Robin vanishes without a sound or trace.

Like a ghost.

Oh no, that's hot.

"Danny, I broke the rule"

"For Ancient's sake, it hasn't even been a month."

[aikoiya]

DP - The Bell Tolls For Amity

I'd like to see a fic where Phantom is captured due to the combined efforts of Valerie, the Fentons, the GiW, & Vlad's funding along with what is essentially Master's Blasters.

He's taken in & experimented on for months. Vlad provided a collar that kept Danny from both using his powers & turning back. (This, however, proves to have physical health issues for him.) But during that time, the town & everyone who helped to get him captured, become intimately aware of just how much Danny Phantom did for them.

The ghost attacks are relentless. They come even in the middle of the night. None of them had realized just how devastatingly powerful some ghosts were. Even Vlad is taken aback by the reality of his little badger's workload. Turns out, only a fraction of the baddies that Daniel fought on a daily basis were on the businessman's payroll.

Again, he underestimated the boy & again it'll be his undoing. He's gonna have to figure out that Danny doesn't 'play hero' just for funsies, but because if he didn't, his town would be a fucking crater. Some people have these things called responsibilities & if they don't perform them, bad things happen. It's like plumbers; it's a shitty job, but if someone didn't do it, there'd be piles of the stuff everywhere. Vlad's just gonna have to come to terms with this fact.

The hunters are only able to contain the weaker ghosts & it usually takes multiple hunter teams working together to capture the stronger ones. Red Huntress is the best at containing them, but even she's having great difficulty.

The attacks are brutal & unforgiving. There's much more property damage & an uncomfortable amount of human deaths, but now THE HUNTERS are the ones being blamed for it rather than Phantom, because *gasp* he's not there.

Worse yet, the ghosts (minus Skulker) are actually thanking them for getting rid of the nuisance & mocking them for vilifying their Tutelary Psychopomp, which Maddie scoff at, being convinced that such classifications were just part of superstitious ghost myth. Jack, though, seemed to go pale because he had grown up in a hunter family that often did a lot of research on that type of thing, so he knew that Tutelaries & Psychopomps were real, but didn't say anything due to his wife not believing him when he spoke of such things. Spectra & Bertrand especially enjoyed tormenting them. Always mocking the GiW for their uselessness & being just as much of a hazard to humanity as any ghost. Always hinting at something to the Fenton's that they're never able to fully pinpoint consciously, but subconsciously, shutter to even contemplate. The fact that they keep pointing out just how terrible & neglectful they are as parents really pisses them off too.

Not to mention the fact that Danny Fenton disappeared around the same time as Phantom was taken, convincing the Fentons that he's behind their son's absence. They frequently utilize their deal with the GiW of being allowed to run their own experiments on Phantom to also demand where Danny is & take out their growing worry-fueled frustration & stress on him. I figure the things they discover about Phantom would be similar to the story 'Phantom of Truth.' Very grim, but would absolutely recommend.

The townspeople rally against the hunters & Vlad, even more so than before. They demand that they return Phantom, stating that he was a better protector. Sure, he wasn't perfect, but he at least did better than them. Even many of those who had originally opposed his existence in their town, raged for the ghost boy's return. Though, many of them did so for selfish reasons, stating that he had a responsibility to save them.

Stress & fatigue mounts. Vlad wanted to wait until Daniel was broken from his rebellious stage before rescuing him as Plasmius, in hopes that the boy would be more susceptible, but now he's loosing money by the bucket-full trying to contain the problem. People are suing him for endangerment because he had a hand in having Phantom taken away. Sure, he has enough money, power, & lawyers to not have to pay a dime to them, but it's a headache to have to appear in court every few days.

Also, the ghosts were getting to be unmanageable to the point where if Daniel didn't get out soon, Vlad would have to start saving the town himself & we all saw how he fled from Vortex without really even trying to fight him. He didn't even show up to fight Undergrowth or Nocturn. He could possibly negotiate with ghosts like Aragon, but I feel like Vlad doesn't fight battles he doesn't know for sure that he can win & likely prefers fights where he can outright overpower the enemy.

As for Spectra, I hc that she had taken the place of one of Vlad's primary doctors or nurses back when he was in the hospital for ecto-acne & is, at least somewhat, responsible for his extreme decline in mental health. Also, while I do think that Jack & Maddie likely didn't try to visit him as often as they should've because they're oblivious & might be neurodivergent & have object permanence issues like that, I don't think they outright abandoned him like Vlad thinks they did. I figure, they tried to see him maybe once or twice a year or sent him letters, but every time they did, Spectra was there to turn them away or destroy the letters.

Anyway, sure, against lower-powered ghosts like the Box Ghost, Lunch Lady, Klemper, ectopi, & other ghostly animals, the hunters did just fine. They could even manage when under attack from Skulker, Ember, Technus, Desiree, & such provided at least 2 hunter teams were working together.

Though, they usually needed specific aid for the latter. With Ember, the Fentons are able to use their Fenton Phones to negate her sound-based hypnotism. Against Desiree, Jack was able to figure out that he could simply wish her into the thermos, though not before a lot of damage was done. But in situations like Skulker & Technus, they often needed to recruit Tucker Foley to defeat them. Even despite this, every battle was hard won & typically left the hunters gravely injured.

Youngblood just ran free for the most part because none of the hunters could see him. It wasn't until Jazz Fenton mentioned that only kids could see him & the Fentons reinstated the Ghost-kateers that they gained headway.

Even still, most of the hunters were rarely able to capture the stronger ghosts & actually maintain their grip on them. Red Huntress & the Master's Blasters had the most success. The others could only seem to manage to capture ghostly animals when working as individual teams. One time, the GiW caught the Box Ghost & proceeded to experiment on him, but then the Lunch Lady broke in & saved him. This traumatizes the Box Ghost & eventually leads to a version of him more like the one from Ultimate Enemy.

There was also a time when the Fentons caught Ember & did the same to her. Similarly to with the Box Ghost, Skulker saved Ember, but by that point she was in really rough shape. It took a long time for her to fully repair the damage done. Now, Skulker has a personal grudge against the Fentons & he comes specifically for them now. Not because he wants to add them to his collection, but because they fucked up.

Then, the more heavy-hitting ghosts began to show up: Fright Knight, Undergrowth, Vortex, Nocturn & Aragon.

When those more powerful ghosts started to terrorize the town, it was devastating. It was practically a ghost town of crumbling buildings. Luckily, Vortex didn't care for Amity, specifically. Anywhere he could do his art was good for him, so he just left the town for the larger world once he got sufficiently bored enough.

Undergrowth had only been defeated weeks after he appeared. The hunters had all been beaten on the first day & the plant ghost had specifically targeted Sam again, turning her into his plants' mother again. He'd only lost when Sam had snapped out of his mind control & turned the tides on him, discovering that she could control the Blood Blossoms that the Fentons had been experimenting with without trouble. It's possible that getting too close to the flowers caused the mind control to wear off faster. Afterwards, Sam realized that she had retained some control over plants & ghostliness even after Undergrowth's defeat, but it wasn't enough yet to be an effective replacement for Danny. None of the hunters knew why they were suddenly freed because Sam specifically hid her new powers from them so they wouldn't take her away like they did Danny.

Fright Knight only wrecked havock on Halloween & could be contained in a pumpkin. Though, none knew until Sam Manson informed them of such under the guise of goth lore & even then, most of the hunters scoffed at the idea of using a magic spell. Especially Maddie with how scientifically & empirically her mind works. But as 3-4 AM approached, when Fright Knight would be at his most powerful, & the hunters' numbers dwindled; Team Phantom minus Phantom himself came in & proved the incantation's worth, absolutely stunning the hunters. Team Phantom had been waiting for the knightly ghost to get cocky & let his guard down enough for them to make their move.

Only Valerie, Maddie, & Agent O had managed to escape the Soul Shredder's edge that night. It was only good fortune that Jack survived because a few Ghost-kateers, all-but one of the Master's Blasters, & a large portion of the GiW agents that had come to fight had been so seriously injured before getting cut, by either Nightmare or Fright Knight's other powers, that they died afterward.

The Fentons tried to induct the team into the Ghost-kateers & the GiW tried to offer them a spot as official junior GiW, but none accepted. The last remaining Master's Blaster quit, stating that it was bullshit having to deal with all this. He'd been promised an easy job & lots of easy money. Well, it was neither, so he outtie!

Also, there's no way the hunters have any earthly idea how to fight a freaking dragon. Not without a hint as to his power source at least & Team Phantom couldn't allow the amulet into their hands. So, instead, they handled it with the Red Huntess' help.

Also keep in mind that Danny actually had some mixture of help when dealing with Aragon, Fright Knight, & Vortex. He didn't beat them outright, so how could a handfull of mediocre at best hunters hope to do it even all together & with help when Danny couldn't on his own?

Though, it turns out that it wasn't just the regular rogue's gallery causing problems. Due to, as they call it, the residant Tutelary/Psychopomp not being there to guard the Gate, quite a large amount of new enemies have turned up to try their hand. Because of this, Team Phantom doesn't even have any idea how to take them out other than the basics.

And not even just enemies, many non-violent ghosts were appearing in an attempt to satiate their unfinished business to try & finally move on. Whether it has to do with some work they couldn't finish in the Zone or they simply wanted to say goodbye to their loved ones or just see them one last time to be sure they're okay.

As per @lilmia-casand's suggestion, many followers of Duul Aman come to try & take back their pharaoh one way or another & it results in Tucker obtaining some small amount of power himself. However, instead of electrical abilities, he gets dunemancy or sand magic. As well as experiencing flashbacks of his previoius life which is where he learns said dunemancy. This also results in a bit of identity crisis & eventual maturing of his character as he tries to figure out what this means for him as a person. He even learns that the talent for archery that he discovered when helping to usurp Aragon from the throne of Mattingly might've been something left over from when he was Duul Aman.

Anyway, eventually, the team gets desperate & brings in Ellie who helps them bring in Valerie, who takes a whole week to get over the fact that she'd tortured her ex.

Yes, she's traumatized & feels so guilty, but she's also now officially part of Team Phantom.

Afterwards, the team officially becomes a hunter team publically & makes their own suits to fight ghosts in.

Sam wears a purple tunic with black racing stripes down the sides & black tights, black gloves, & a black, bat-shaped domino mask. Finally, she had black combat boots with buckles, spikes, & steel, skull-shaped toes. The black detailing around the neck & at the ends of her gloves & boots have a triangular shape to them. Her belt is black & has a lot of guns because she's the marksman of the group. She & Jazz also have these newly-invented retractable Fenton whips that they're learning to use.

Tucker wears a white hazmat with an orange 'Y' covering his chest, reaching up to his shoulders, which are covered with blue shoulder pads, & down to his belt. The branches of the 'Y' disappear under the shoulder pads that have Danny's DP symbol on them, then reappear to become a pair of racing stripes down the length of the arms before disappearing again under the gloves. The 'Y' on his front is mirrored on his back by an 'X'. He also wears blue elbow pads. He wears a white helmet with a blue visor that covers most of his head except his mouth & chin. His visor provides statistics, can wirelessly access his PDA & Danny's Ghost Files, & has built in Fenton Phones, night vision, infrared & thermographic vision, & a Fenton ectogram so he can see an outline of ghosts when they're invisible. (He learns that as he becomes more liminal, he'll get better at seeing in the dark on his own until he no longer needs his helmet to have a night vision built in, so he takes it out.) His gloves & boots are black with blue spots on his ankles, toes, & fingertips, as well as blue bands for the hems & his pants are orange, camo cargos full of pockets where he keeps his ghost hunting equipment. While Tuck is usually the Software Guy of the group with Danny being the Hardware Guy, he does often assist Danny, so he has enough knowledge to know what he's doing.

Jazz has a tunic the same color as her mom's suit, black tights like Sam's & black boots & gloves. She also wears a basic black domino mask. Her weapons of choice are the Fenton Peeler, the Jack-o-Ninetails, the Boo-Staff which is just an ecto-treated bo staff.

On all of their shoulders is Danny's symbol, showing everyone who they were aligned with.

As they work on finding a way to save Danny, they look into an idea that Sam had. Jazz has more knowledge of biology than the others having originally wanted to be a brain surgeon like her Aunt Ann. And recently, she'd been studying ectology & ectobiology out of necessity to help Danny whenever he gets really hurt &, as much as she hated to admit it, she was pretty good at it.

She tested it & found out that their plan could work, but only on herself. She would say Sam & Tucker too but, she'd get to that later. Anyway, because they had been exposed to & adapted to ectoplasm being present in their bodies enough over the years for it to work.

Jazz had been close to it her whole life & adapted due to proximity much like Danny had. Meanwhile, Sam & Tucker had also started adapting to it since being friends with Danny & spending time at his house, but much more slowly due to not living there. Their adaptation got even quicker after Danny became Phantom. Now, normally, they still wouldn't have been adapted to it enough yet, but Jazz discovered that they still had ecto-acne (though it was mostly dormant, thus making it less ecto-acne & more ecto-herpies). Which Tucker & Sam were both appalled at the thought that Vlad gave them both ecto-herpies.

Ellie looked forward to telling Vlad that Jack had given him ecto-herpies with every fiber of her being & couldn't wait to tell Danny.

Anyway, after Ellie had recovered from falling face-first onto the floor, laughing until her sides hurt & tears ran down her cheeks, Jazz relayed that due to the ecto-herpies (which brought on another chuckle from Ellie) they were now not only compatible, but slowly being turned into Halfas like Vlad had, Sam & Tucker's were happening even more quickly due to their recent repossession by Undergrowth & the encounter with Tucker's subjects of a past life. Because of this, there was no need for either Sam or Tucker to go through with the process because it'd already started for them. They just had to wait for it to crop up again. Thing is, it would be painful & slow, but because they had the soda contamination neutralized, it wouldn't be quite as painful as it had been for Vlad.

Valerie would be unable to go through with the process because she hadn't had any contact with ectoplasm until after her dad lost her job.

Jazz informed her that her new suit was actually slowly making her more compatible, but that it'd still take years for it to get there, which was just fine with Valerie, who was still struggling with her ectophobia. But, she wouldn't become a Halfa like Sam & Tucker would because she didn't contract ecto-herpies. Instead, she was becoming fully Ecto-Liminal.

(Now, this is all just based on Jazz's limited understanding of ectoplasm & how it works in relation to organic material.

The reality is that 99% of the population wouldn't survive the process. Jack & his kids could due to not only being a Legacy to a death diety, as well as a dhampir, & his ancestors getting into regular contact with ghosts as well as living in slightly ecto-contaminated places over the course of at least a century & it's just built up in their system over that long amount of time. Add to that, he & Maddie making ghosts their business, it makes their kids 100% compatible. Meanwhile, Sam similarly is a death diety Legacy & her family has lived in Amity for several generations where there's a thin spot in the Veil as well as a Lazarus Pit hidden somewhere & it mixes with the local water. This is enough for her to become a True Halfa eventually with the help of ecto-herpies. Tucker might also be able to, being descended from a Pharaoh, who are known to be descended from Horus, who, himself, was the son of Osiris, who was a death deity. Valerie, however, was not so lucky. She is not descended from a death diety in any respect, so she will not get the benefits of her body being perfectly adapted to ectoplasm. As such, Valerie won't ever be able to become a perfect 100/100 Halfa, but Sam & Tucker will, though it'll take several years to do so.)

Either way, it took them all a while to set everything up, Jazz being grumpy about having to make a new hazmat tunic so that when she went through with it, it actually looked good.

Sam changed Jazz's tunic to be orange & put a stylized JP in the center of her chest.

Then, they turned off the portal & Jazz stepped into it before turning it back on.

Jazz's eyes turned the same shade of purple as her mother's (who's eyes had originally been the same color as Jazz's but had changed due to ecto-contamination early in her career before the Fenton's wore hazmats; this is actually the reason why they began to wear them at all), her hair became an electric blue, & her skin turned the same shade of tan as Danny as a ghost.

Now there was a new Halfa & though it would take some time to get used to her new powers, they now had an advantage against the oncoming hoard.

After the ecto-herpies resurfaces, Sam & Tucker would slowly become more contaminated over time before dying. At which point, Jazz would bring out a defibrillator & revive them & the final stage of the process would begin.

Either way, they're in a better place than before.

Anyway, while Sam & Tucker were waiting for their ecto-herpies to reappear & advance, Danny had previously been working on streamlining the Fenton Ghost Gloves so they weren't quite so bulky & his team could use them more casually. Tucker completed the design, working the circuitry into the fabric itself. Along with that, he put anti-ecto studs on the knuckles. He also then made a few pairs of boots that would do the same as the gloves.

Sam & Tucker both wore a pair, plus wrist rays. Sam & Jazz also had Fenton Phones. Tucker planned to build them into their masks later.

As you can guess, they are set to start working.

There is shock at the reveal of the new, now public "Team Phantom" as well as these 2 new Phantoms & the fact that the Red Huntress had teamed up with them.

The Fentons expressed pity that the ghosts had managed to take in such young minds, especially the Red Huntess who they thought had had a very promising future as a hunter, while the GiW became suspicious of them.

Jazz Phantom makes it public that they will be taking over while her brother is out of commission. This causes a stir as no one had known that Phantom had had a family.

The Fentons, especially Maddie, rejected this idea, saying ghosts were post-humous impressions & not really people. As such, they had no family even provided the two Phantoms had been related in life, that wouldn't matter now because such relations are determined by biology which is something unique to physical organic bodies. Which ghosts didn't have.

To which, Sam goes on a spiel about how ghosts are as sapient as anyone & deserved as many rights as them.

It quickly becomes apparent who the best hunters are though. Team Phantom is at the top & while many adults, especially parents, are against the idea of kids fighting, they are unable to deny how well they do.

Jazz's powers mainly center around the more psychic aspect. Things like telekinesis, telepathy, clairvoyance, limited future sight, psychokinesis, small-scale mind-reading, & psychic empathy. She's actually much like Miss Martian from DC.

She develops a cold core & her element turns out to be water eventually, but that's years down the line & the story will have mostly ended by then.

What happens after all this, I'm not yet sure.

I think that, in the end, Danny will end up saving Amity one final time, but then just never become Phantom again unless it was absolutely necessary.

He'll teach Jazz & Ellie everything he knows about being a halfa & protecting Amity, but after that, he quits.

He's just... so bone tired...

When his parents try to hug him, he refuses to let them touch him. He asks why they were so certain the Phantom took him.

Their answers are less than stellar & he explodes. He tells them everything, showing off all the scars that THEY gave him. This isn't about being accepted anymore, this is about telling them exactly how he feels.

His sister is 18 now, so he asks her if she has the paperwork they filled out for him to get emancipated & when she says yes, he asks her to do it & to adopt him, because he's done.

By the time this happens, the portal is destroyed & Danny is able to blackmail Vlad into making it a law that would make it illegal for anyone to open a permanent portal in Amity or for the Fentons to practice ectology in any capacity, so if the Fentons ever try to do it again, their asses would be in jail.

This doesn't do much as the Veil is so weak in Amity now that temporary portals are now commonplace, so they will likely have to deal with ghosts forever until they figure out how to fix it.

Either way, this isn't about his parents getting justice, it's about them suffering. Ghosts & ectology were what brought them the greatest joy, now that is barred from them forever. Not only that, but his family was Jack's other greatest joy & now he can't even go near his kids due to the restraining order.

That isn't all, Danny tells Jack & Maddie exactly who Vlad is & reveals to Jack that Vlad wants Maddie & had asked her to leave Jack & run away with him. Make it clear that it was also their fault that Vlad was the way he was & then emphasis the fact that Maddie never told Jack about what happened in Colorado.

So, now they will be alone, ostracized, unable to do what gave them greatest joy, & they're marriage is crumbling.

From then on, Danny suffers from intense depression, but he's slowly getting better.

Ellie begins to destabilize again, but Danny then recreates the machine Vlad used on him, but puts Ellie inside & freely gives the mid-morph DNA. She becomes much more stable, but appears to still need something to fully cement herself as a true halfa.

As an adult, he marries Sam, who later dies of ecto-herpies, (so does Tucker) after which she & Tucker are revived via defib, thus becoming halfas. Danny & Sam have kids, Andy & Misty. Then, they take in Ellie who is renamed to Eleanor in order to give her more autonomy over her life.

Sam, as a halfa, has yellow irises, a middle-eastern-type tan, (silvery hair? I'm not sure about this one yet...), & after reaching halfa puberty, her tongue becomes forked (though, it's got the same general human shape, just with a fork, so not long or thin or prehensile; not genguinely snake-like), & grows vampiric fangs. By then, she's married to Danny, so takes the name Phantom. Had she not been at the time, she would've gone with either Manes or Mourner. (Neither of which were originally thought up by me, but they were both good ideas, so here they are.)

Her core is a basic temperature, which is to say, a bit lower than the typical humans body temp. Her primary core element is wood or plant & her secondary is darkness or shadow. She also has a degree of connection to poison & her psyche reacted to her electric revival in a way that allowed her core to form a sort of null reaction to the element. Not only does she have a plant's electroreception which allows her to feel electricity in the air, but she is able to grow vines from her body & she can let one vine become a sort of lightning rod, allow the electricuty to flow down it, into her stomach, then up & out into another vine, which shoots the lightning back out through the end & away much like Iroh's lightning redirection technique, but with vines. She's sorta like if Poison Ivy & Raven from Teen Titans had a clone.

Something about her nature as a ghost makes her anti-gravity core only work half as well & the rest of the team are unsure why as of yet. (A/N: It's specifically because she is an Earth based halfa. Halfas, by default, have anti-gravity cores that only work half as well as true ghosts; however, if their core element is something connected to the sky or weather, then they are allowed 100% anti-grav efficiency. Every other halfa so far has some connection to air, what with Vlad having an electric secondary element, Danny having an ice/starlight primary & wind secondary [thus having an above-average anti-grav control], Ellie having an ice secondary, Jazz having a wind/electric secondary, & Tucker having an electric primary, they all naturally have a higher capacity for anti-grav than Sam, who has a plant/wood primary & a darkness/shadow secondary with some poison alignment.) As a result, Sam can mostly only glide, hover, & slow her falls without assistance. Because of this, she tends to sprout large, leaf-like wings from her back & this allows her true flight. The girlier part of her which she tries her hardest to suppress gets a little giddy at this, her mind telling her she's like a woodland fairy.

However, due to her nature as being specifically a plant-powered halfa, she has immunity to Blood Blossoms & other anti-ghost plants such as Rowan wood. She is also able to control them. It's also of note that she personally adapted to the ecto-herpies in a way that gives her a greater immunity to most poisons & venoms. Not anywhere near to the same degree as Vlad, but still. She also develops venom sacks in her cheeks, but they only activate when frustrated, aggrivated, or in danger, so if she were to bite someone in these situations, she would inject them with a deadly poison. For ghosts, it won't make them fade unless it's severe & they aren't treated. Basic toxicology methods are effective enough to get a ghost to recover within a week. It is, however, very deadly to humans & without a specific antivenom & proper toxicological recovery methods, will result in the individual dying within a few hours of injection.

Because of this, she takes up toxinology, clinical toxinology, & toxicology in order to create an antivenom. She will never forget the time when she was backed into a corner as a human & bit the man who attacked her, despite the fact that he attacked her, she'd never intended to kill him as she believes that all things deserve to live. So, learning that he died because of her was a hard pill to swallow.

Tucker, as a halfa, will get ginger or blood-orange colored irises with really nice espresso/dark, dark chocolate colored skin, like almost 100% raw cocoa dark chocolate, platinum hair with a very metallic sheen, then after reaching halfa puberty, he gets a canid tongue & wolfish/jackal-like teeth. Like, a full-on set, not just canines.

He has a hot core with an electric primary element, a technology secondary, & latent talent for dunemancy with some basic alignment to earth (specifically metal) & poison due to ecto-herpies being what killed him. His psyche reacted to being defibed by interpretting the electricity as being what saved him, this plus his technophilic tendencies leads to him welcoming the electricity as part of him & therefore, he has a much stronger alignment to it than Sam. The poison comes out in a way that allows him to sort of create a computer virus by connecting with technology & willing it.

Tucker is capable of ferrokinesis, but when it's a non-technology sort of metal like pipes or crowbars or manhole covers or hubcaps, it acts as more of an extention of his pre-existing electrokinesis like with Static Shock.

Power-wise, he's much like a clone of Static Shock, Technus, & the Sandbenders from Avatar. He also gets the same power that Danny has that allows him to possess machines & enter games or the internet physically.

Tucker goes by either Tucker Ghouly or Cyber-Tuck. Again, not originally my idea. I don't recall who thought up Tucker Ghouly, but I know that @thesoulspulse came up with Cyber-Tuck & her design for him is fire, so go tell her how smart & creative she is, please.

Anyway, Ellie begins to destabilize again, but much, much slower this time. So, Danny with the help of Dash who has actually really cleaned up his act after going to boot camp & being part of the military as a war medic. He hears about the issue & really begins to buckle into biochemistry, bioengineering, cloning technology, ect.

He discovers that one way to fully stabilize Ellie, not to mention the easiest & most straightforward way, would be to give her a female secondary donor. Sure, another male donor could work, but it's not as viable & would require more scientific fuckery & a whole hell of a lot more money.

Sam volunteers immediately.

With his help, he & Danny build a machine that will house Ellie, take in Sam's DNA, & once Ellie destabilizes, the machine will rebuild her from the ground up with Sam's DNA to help stabilize her around her core. However, due to a lack of quick-aging agent, Ellie will come out as 3-8 years old & will have to grow up the long way.

Interesting, she comes out with more indigo eyes & her ghost form will have more yellow-ish green eyes than Danny's straight Peridot green or Sam's outright yellow.

[ghostly-penumbra]

DannyMay 2021. Day Twenty-four

"Power"

Continuation to this.

FFN Ao3

Of all the excuses thrown at Lancer by one Daniel Fenton, "A Dream Lord's gonna pick his stuff from my house!" was an unexpected one.

"American Gods!" Lancer exclaimed as not one, but three of his students launched themselves out of their seats and out the door after suddenly coming out of a heat-wave induced stupor. "You three," he hollered as he reached the door and saw them speed through the hallway, "come back here!" He didn't know what had gotten into them this day, but they better pray for mercy the moment they came back.

Which, he realized after five minutes of waiting, was not today.

"If I retire early, it's on them."

- - -

Team Phantom walked along the sidewalk approaching Fenton Works, enjoying the fresh breeze and the tall buildings' shadows.

"Why don't we always skip class?" Tucker asked as they stopped with a street vendor, and got two ice-cream cones and a pop-sickle.

"Not enough good excuses."

"Need to study for adult life."

"Angry parents."

"Yeah…" The three of them said at the same time, just as they reached Danny's home.

"Hold up, I'll check where my parents are and make a diversion if necessary."

"That won't be necessary."

They spun around to find the Dream Lord standing behind them with a small bag on his hip.

Instead of showing any sign of the surprise they felt at his presence, they stared at him with curiosity. "Did ya do something?" Danny asked.

"They are just taking a mid-morning nap."

The Fenton boy stared blankly at him. "Something not lethal that will only last enough for us to finish here and get back to Casper, right?"

Dream gave him an amused huff and an honest answer. "Exactly that."

- - -

"I can't believe it, there is a Dream God in your house, and we have to subject him to your bedroom!" Sam exclaimed, checking Danny's closet while Tucker went through his desk and Danny himself rummaged through his dirty laundry. "Is it this one?" She asked, holding up the thermos she found.

Dream, who assured them he would know when they found the right container with his wayward dream in it, shook his head no.

"Is it this one?"

In his defence, Danny didn't like making powerful ghosts share a thermos, they may escape when he opened the thermos to suck the other one in, or they may band together and break out. But returning the Big Ones back to the Zone, at least immediately after capturing them, was a no go, because they could easily geo out then, as shown by Cujo and freaking Boxy. So, different thermoses.

Dream shook his head once again, and the halfa's shoulders slumped.

"Is this your card?" Tucker asked, showing yet another thermos with a flourish.

"Yes, it is."

Tucker jumped in triumph and Team Phantom once again converged.

"Thank you, Duulaman." The Dream King said.

"I, um, I'm Tucker now." The former pharaoh mumbled.

"I will remember that." Dream said, and proceeded to uncap the Fenton thermos.

But where they expected a burst of light and an angry ghost that turned out to be a dream to come out, nothing happened.

"Come now, Nocturne, you know this is not your place." When nothing happened still, the Endless insisted. "You are not a ghost." And with a flick of a finger, a dense but small cloud of darkness came out of the thermos, twisting in itself and moving the stars that adorned its body, as if reflecting its master's eyes "It's time for you to return home." With a last hand gesture of the being at Danny's doorway, the ghost that had put the whole city to sleep returned to the Dreaming.

- - -

Daniel Hall needs more friends his age, tbh.

I had a lot of fun writing this!

If Team Phantom seemed a little careless around a freaking Endless, it's because here they can perceive Dream is around their age, even if they can't quite tell. It would be like having a young teacher: you know they are an authority figure, but still seem approachable.

Also, for what I saw of Daniel, he doesn't hava that much of Morpheus imposing aura, imo.

[menolly5600]

Just some thoughts.

The Justice League believe that 'evil' Phantom had killed Danny Fenton, Vlad's beloved godson, and replaced him as an evil plot against Vlad the hero. Batman especially is furious with Phantom and feeling unforgiving because he thinks Phantom murdered a civilian child, a member of Vlad's family by choice, and puppeted his body to pretend to be the Fentons' son, toying with the family just to torment Vlad. The tragedy reminds all the heroes of what would happen if their villains knew their secret identities and went after their families. For Bruce, the boy looked like he could have been one of his own kids. Like Jason had been as a child. At least JLD had been able to spare Vlad the trauma of having to fight Phantom while he was wearing his godson's corpse.

The GIW and Fenton parents confirmed to the JL that Phantom is Amity Park's #1 enemy. They still don't like Plasmius, but they can't do anything against a Justice League member. And Plasmius doesn't really operate inside Amity Park anymore. Vlad's too busy being dragged around to deal with hero missions and saving people on a global or big city scale to pay attention to Amity much. Vlad figures Danny is dealing with Amity like usual.

The Justice League had been vague in telling Vlad what they'd done to his nemesis, not wanting to tear open the man's grief again. They'd just told him he didn't have to worry about Phantom anymore, they'd take care of him. Vlad isn't the best at registering vocal tone (he's always so smarmy but thinks he sounds perfectly sincere and is fooling everyone), so figured they were inducting Danny as a hero and didn't want the rehab villain involved.

Meanwhile, the Fenton parents are grieving and manic about hunting the other evil ghosts. The Justice League had shown up and revealed Danny had been replaced by Phantom and captured the villain. They said Danny had been killed by Phantom and replaced, but they couldn't figure out exactly when their baby had been replaced. The JL said they had to seal away the body with Phantom to be certain of containing him. The Fentons are working on finding a way to separate the ghost from their son's body so they can put their baby to rest. But between that manic project and the grieving, they forgot to tell Vlad. Well, Jack forgot. Maddie doesn't like Vlad and wouldn't have wanted him intruding on their grief to hit on her, so hadn't planned on telling him.

Jazz found out the JL captured Danny when she got back from touring colleges. She's the one that told Sam and Tucker what happened to him, because they hadn't been informed. They had already hacked the GIW, broke into the Fenton lab, hacked Vlad's labs, and checked with the Far Frozen. Then Dani had shown up demanding to know why her dadbrocuz wasn't responding to her texts or calls. She convinced them to get help from Valerie to see if she knew anything. They convinced Val to agree to protect the town when Dani, with Sam and Tucker as occult and tech support, tried to rescue Danny from wherever the Justice League was holding him.

The Justice League is horrified to realize they fucked up so badly on recruitment that they missed an entire un-mentored and unsupported child hero team. And then pushed them into going Rogue to rescue the actual heroic halfa protector spirit/child hero they'd falsely imprisoned and basically kidnapped. And his parents still thought he was dead. And somehow his parents had no idea he was Phantom, because they'd hated Phantom long before they thought he'd replaced their son.

And they'd accidentally managed to rehabilitate the actual 'unforgiveably evil and needs to be sealed away forever' halfa villain? Somehow? By treating him as a valued ally and comrade? By treating him as a good person and being friendly? And... It worked? He hadn't betrayed them or done anything evil, and he even thought he was in villain rehab?

DP x DC Writing Prompt: Justice League's Totally Real Redemption Program

It has been a few months now since Vlad became a member of the Justice League.

...Alright rewind, it started after he instinctively used his powers a bit in human form during one of the Wayne's Galas. It was subtle but Masters moved someone out of the way and they "barely" avoided it (no thanks to a hint of intangibility of course) if only to continue talking business with them or coursem

Of course he should have known being technically a Metahuman in Gotham would get him on the Bat's radar. It was only a matter of time before the big bad bat himself burst into his office.

But... It happened while he was asleep and only left a business card to contact the Justice League??? They apparently wanted to recruit him???

Vlad was unsure but based on them being friendly they seemed to act like they were trying some bizarre rehabilitation program? Like they're trying to make villains into heroes by treating them well having them use their powers or skills for their side? Well based on his data on the Flashes, they seem to treat their Rogues well... Probably his idea.

Weird that they chose him first instead of one of their own rogues, but Vlad went along with it. Writing it off Danny was also being recruited by the Justice League and he suggested using him as a Guinea Pig first? Honestly he wouldn't put it past the boy.

Over time though Vlad began to see the positive effects he was having as the heroes seemed to look happy he was learning good with proud stares. It felt.... Refreshing to use his powers for good, something he remembers his past self had mocked Daniel for when they met.

...Speaking of Phantom, where was he anyway? It's been a while since he pestered Vlad?

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Batman, on a rare occasion like this, was happy all things considered. Constantine was right about the rumors regarding a Halfa helping people and ghosts alike. A hero in his own right.

He didn't expect to find Vladimir Masters as the one he was looking for, and by chance when he saved someone with a subtle use of powers. At first suspecting Metahuman abilities he was keeping under wraps, but Constantine came by not long after asking about the feeling of the "Infinite Realms" in the area. Once he was told about ghosts, it didn't take long to find a connection back to Vlad.

After some digging they found according to legends he has been seen across history having fought what was believed to have been another like him... The only other Halfa and one appeared evil to the bone.

Batman hadn't pressed Plasmius about his past but he did make a list of the rogues in Amity Park, a town protected by the Halfa.

Including the suspected evil Halfa, he was easy enough to track down as hiding as a ghost hunter's own son and seal away into a little artifact for now. One less threat to deal with...

Even if he recognizes not all ghosts are evil, some do not deserve second chances for their crimes.

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(Or... Justice League fucks up a teeny bit in research and recruitment, so through misunderstandings they believe Plasmius was the hero and Phantom was the villain based on past stories of their appearances and legends passed through the Ghost Zone to other mythical creatures but the story and detail become warped and faded as centuries past by.)

Meanwhile Vlad thinks this is some weird rehabilitation project and seems to be working for him as he feels good about doing good. Danny in turn may not be stuck in absolute suffering but isn't exactly having a good time due to being mistaken for the bad guy and now currently sealed away.)

[1001aus]

The Ghost Hunters guys and the haunted objects people (Greg and Dana Newkirk, I checked) working together determine that the ghost known as "Phantom" is actually haunting the ghost portal, but can't figure out why.

Danny hadn't actually known objects could be haunted. Sure, he knew a ghost's obsession could cause them to fixate on an object, but not that they could be tied to the object itself. (Quite frankly, his ability to be so far from the portal baffles both teams. The only reason he can do that is because of his halfa status which they aren't aware is possible.)

There's a lot of things Danny doesn't know about ghosts, as it turns out. His parents are scientists. Even with evidence that ghosts exist, it's never occurred to him to look into occultists, mediums, or whatever is considered common knowledge about ghosts by people who believe in them. Even Sam disregards these things as sources of factual information more than she realizes.

And, of course, even once he gains ghost allies Danny does not have time for that kind of research if it doesn't seem immediately relevant. If he had time for a personal research project he'd have time to finish his homework or take a nap. That is not a priority.

But now Danny knows that one of the reasons he's so up in arms about ghosts coming to Amity Park is because they're using his Haunt (the portal) to do it. And maybe his death is what made the portal work! Maybe the one his parents made in college failed because it didn't instantly kill Vlad.

Danny might be having an existential crisis.

Their tourist trap tourism ads for "the world's most haunted town" finally resulted in the inevitable: TV ghost hunters come to Amity Park. The ones with a van full of expensive equipment. The "psychics." The ones with half a dozen tools that plug into their iphone.

Danny didn't think he could learn new things about ghosts from reality TV hacks, but apparently they're getting all surprised this month.

[capricedhusara]

Phandom loves making Clockwork, Frostbite, and/or Pandora (with a side of redeemed Vlad aka Dad Masters/ Plasmius) Danny's ghost mentors/ adoptive parents, but consider this:

Technus, believing he owes it to Phantom (on the basis that Danny's joking suggestion of using technology to take over the world actually saved Technus's afterlife by giving him a new obsession since the world moved on without him and he couldn't even haunt his old rivals since they died and moved on) decides to adopt and mentor him before anyone else can make a claim on the younger halfa. This is actually mutually beneficial, because Technus teaches Danny ghost powers and culture that he would otherwise have to figure out by himself or learn about much later from Vlad/ Frostbite/ Pandora/ Clockwork (and/or Princess Dora), and Danny/ Team Phantom would help Technus learn about the modern world by proximity and exposure (which would make him more powerful since he would be able to account for weaknesses in technology he's controlling ahead of time instead of only finding out about the vulnerability when someone is already taking advantage of it and he can't stop them).

TUE/ Dan would also be averted since Technus acting as a mentor would take some of the stress off of Danny in school (by tutoring him to keep his grades up despite leaving partway through or just completely skipping classes to fight ghosts) and as Phantom (since Technus is both an actual fighter that doesn't need to be protected like the rest of Team Phantom, and a full ghost who can patrol at night without needing to rest and go to school/ work in the morning), so Danny wouldn't have a reason to cheat. Plus the fact that Technus is an adult ghost who seems to have his own lair in the Realms means that Danny would have someone other than Vlad to turn to if he gets orphaned some other way (given the fact that Maddie's sister apparently couldn't or wouldn't take custody of Danny as next of kin in canon) since he didn't have a whole lot of incentive to continue his human life as Fenton by that point anyway.

That would also improve Danielle's situation since Technus can act as her caretaker/ guardian and even arrange for any allied ghosts to watch over her instead of leaving her on her own to fend for herself. Someone could immediately bring her back to Danny for help if she starts destabilizing (or has any other health problems that require human assistance to treat) instead of her racing the clock to reach him in time without help, and she'd get an actual education (both ghostly from Technus and other allies, and human via homeschooling or Technus forging documents to enroll her in public school as his ward).

Danny: Technus! whatever you do don't run through all nft servers with a powerful magnet!

Technus: I! Technus! Can Turn My Energy Field Into A Very Powerful Magnet Ghost Child! I Don't Need To Carry One!

Danny: ok-

Technus: what's an ennefftie?