#thats how the JL find out about the GIW

[vln-vibes]

Amity Park; Clone City ?

It started with a video.

Tim had been scrolling through social media, as one did when procrastinating doing boring paperwork for Wayne Enterprises. He found himself going down the rabbit hole and somehow ended up going down the Unreality/ARG path.

He had to appreciate the dedication to bringing these stories together, some of the stories could actually happen given all the shit he'd seen in his hero career. Anyway this ended in him getting fed back to back Not Real videos. At least that was until he found The Video.

The caption on the screen was the first thing that popped up in front of the face of a latina teen who was trying not to laugh; Imagine getting wrecked by a twink

The camera flipped two buff guys wearing red and white Leatherman jackets, one was on the grass with his head tilted to the side and a basketball next to him, the blonde guy was looking at his friend with tears in his eyes before turning red and turning to the side and yelling out.

"You're dead Weston!"

"I said sorry!"

The camera then did a sharp turn to zoom in on a lanky ginger teen. It looked as though the blonde was about to go beat the shit out of the guy before the ground shook and the sky turned momentarily green.

"Ah shit, must be Skullker"

The audio began to glitch before the cameragirl began to run, the blonde could be seen carrying his companion, the ginger guy running besides them. A sudden cry came from behind as they could hear what seemed to be a girl trip.

"Star!"

The video started to glitch again and the camera fell from the girl's hand. As the girl picked up her phone the video showed that the ground where the blonde fell was now charred. When the girl panned to the side he could see that the ginger guy had tackled her.

"Are you guys okay?" her slightly accented voice could be heard with a weird echo, the ginger guy had his head back to the camera as he helped the girl up.

"Ugh Skullker's the worst, I still can't believe Ember dates him" the girl groaned. She looked up;

Kara?

"At least Phantom's already on it" the ginger guy turned around.

Wally?

The video ended and Tim found himself rewatching it over and over again--- There was no doubt that those two were Kara and Wally. Sure they looked younger but it was them.

There had to be more to this, was this really some sort of ARG? The explosions and the weird glitches, was that just all some part of a gimmick? Also why were there two younger versions of prominent heroes? Were they clones? Was Cadmus involved?

If it was clones then Cadmus was definitely involved.

He clicked on the girl's profile--- PaulinaxPhantom<3

Most of it was blank, not in a 'She doesn't really post much' sort of way, like her photos and video were whited off. He could see a sporadic picture and video here and there but they were divided by blank pictures that never loaded or video that crashed without ever showing anything.

He knew it had nothing to do with his connection so what the hell was going on. Could it be something with the site?

On a recent picture it was a selfie of herself with 'Star'/Kara with a link to 'Star's' profile.

Same thing as Paulina; pictures and videos surrounded by never loading and permanently whited out.

He checked the blonde jock's, Dash, and had the same result. Apparently the guy he’d been carrying was named Kwan—

Was that Garth? Sure he was a lot bulkier but he had an uncanny resemblance to the Atlantean.

Then he found 'Wally' again, or Wes apparently; Wally West and Wes Weston? It wasn't giving him much hope.

Wes was apparently part of Casper High's journalism club given his video about trying to meet the deadline and ranting about how annoying 'Boxie' had been, having trashed their clubroom and making them pick up after him.

"Stop complaining and actually pick up the slack Weston" a female voice spoke up from behind him.

"Yes, yes Chief Editor Manson"

Raven!?

Another video had him in a local food joint where the waitress was taking an order from a black haired customer, scowling as she noted the camera on her and flipped him off as the camera zoomed in on her, which was a dick move on the guy's part (as if service industry workers didn't have to deal with shit customers in the first place). The customer she was helping didn't even look back and also flipped him off.

"Get a life Weston"

Karen?

Oh holy hell bats! Was that Dick!?

Oh crap. Oh motherhecking heck!

This was bad.

Fumbling off of his bed and out of his room with a single drive to get to the Batcave, where he knew Bruce would be at the time and be able to assemble an Emergency Meeting with the League, he only had one thing in mind.

Why the hell would they hide clones in the middle of bumfuck Nowhere Illinois?

[kaidatheghostdragon]

This is all so perfect, how do you add to this?

Well, first thing, when batman is in the lab, before danny passes out, he gets some very overwhelming emotions over the fact that: 1) desiree must have left the bats' memories intact, 2) they rushed over to amity to rescue him literally as fast as they were able to.

Danny is gonna be very teary-eyed and quivering face when he sees batman storm into his field of view. First thing he says before passing out? "Think i could use a hug right about now, B."

Because by the ancients, bruce remembered what danny wished for, he was gonna remember what bruce wished for with his last vestiges of consciousness.

The supers are gonna be so confused until they get the full story, and soon danny's intro to the batfam is gonna be the talk of the superhero community for *months.* did bruce wish a godling meta child into existance? Did danny really play cuckoo so convincingly that the bats were smitten even after the magic wore off? The bats arent telling any more than the bare bones minimum outside of their closest circle (the supers, the flashes, and a couple others.)

And danny's powerset? They're still having arguments, and now it's a challenge. Nobody is allowed to ask danny at this point. It's the principle of the matter. Danny eggs them on, referencing events in the past that never happened (dont you remember? We did the full powerset checklist when you confronted me about being Phantom.), even contradicting himself (y'all might be detectives, but i swear i'd still be hiding my alter ego if i hadnt just straight up told you while you were all trying to train up my "civilian self defense" when i first moved in with you guys.)

Jack and maddie are rotting in justice league custody wondering how phantom managed to summon and brainwash the batfam into rescuing him. Thats some top-tier ghost bullshit from their perspective.

Sam and tucker debriefed the bats on how everything went down in AP during the two months. Im sensing space for a redemption arc for valerie that gets completely erased and negated, but i love valerie too much to do that to her. I just want her on the same team for once, dammit. Either i retcon that she keeps her memories too (maybe she was wearing fenton fones at the time the wish was undone?), or she was friendly with the team before the two months started and is *very upset* that she didnt keep her memories like sam and tuck once she's informed of what happened.

Then again, having a negated redemption arc could be interesting. If fenton fones are immune to ghost magic, the team may have figured out how to make a computer database with the same properties. If tucker checks their ghost files to find that all the security footage and giw intel he collected from the two months was still there, they just have to piece together a timeline of val's redemption arc to show to her. Might still take some convincing, but the batfam and justice league are here validating sam and tuck's story, so they cant be making it up wholesale, right?

Also, the bats are gonna want that tech for themselves. Tucker is basically a shoo in for bat/jl tech support and has just been set up for life. Sam and val arent going to allow themselves to be pushed aside either. Both will make strong cases for each being added to the superhero community. (I so badly want to give sam plant powers here, but even if she does, i think she'd make the argument and ensure her place in the community as a "normal" like the bats before dropping the, "oh btw i have powers.")

Where is jazz for all of this? She has to be out of the house or uncharacteristically oblivious to miss danny in the lab. I believe college tours are a common excuse for her. And what was she doing during the two months? Also, did desiree remove her memories?

From her perspective, she's gone for a few days and when she gets back (for maximum shock/crack value, while the bats are still there treating danny):

Danny is gravely injured

The justice league is securing the town

Fudging *batman* is in her living room, *demasked*, calling danny his son! (Is that bruce wayne?!)

The other bats are making themselves at home, cooking food, destroying the lab, and guarding her parents that are tied up unconscious in their room

Sam and tucker are halfway through a powerpoint detailing the warzone in amity park (that doesnt at all match what she saw driving back into town)

"Danny, what the hell?" She manages to deadpan through her utter bafflement.

Danny, as eloquent as ever, fighting injuries, pain, pain meds, etc, "our parents are assholes, desiree learned her lesson, and batman is our new dad now. Deets later, when im not high off my rocker."

Jazz facepalms. Red robin offers her a mug of coffee. (Is that tim drake-wayne?!)

"Congrats. Its a dad," danny, for some reason, feels the need to tack on.

"Guess im going to gotham u," jazz mutters, falling into a kitchen chair. (She was eyeing it pretty hard for its psychology program, but she thought it's be a hard sell to danny for being in gotham.)

Lastly, vlad masters. If he doesnt remember anything, then he sees the bats swoop in and rescue danny before he even realized danny was in danger. He is baffled and infuriated. Days later, danny's adoption into the wayne family enrages him. I kinda want him to attempt something to get costody, only to get smacked down by tuckers' security footage from the two months that never were, just to try to give him perspective of how royally fucked he was during those two months and an explanation why the bats knew to rescue him.

He is also very plainly informed that he's on the justice league's watchlist by danny's recommendation, so he better behave.

I think thats everything i have to add right now.

The bats have so many folks around, even if they aren't always working together. Enough that folks like to joke/write about Danny just kinda showing up acting like he already lives there. He just kinda blends in.

I'd love to see more magic motivated versions of this. Some kind of spell that affects the bat's perceptions of the past and present, making them actually miss that this boy wasn't with their family too long ago. Maybe it changes their understanding like it's a time line shift, maybe it fogs their mind just a tad and makes them glaze past something like it wasn't even there. I like the second if only because I feel like that would make it more likely for the bats to realize a spell was a foot.

Imagining this from Danny's side, hes terrified this whole time of getting found out. He knows how and when he showed up here and maybe even how flimsy whatever magic is in place is. Imagining a Desiree wish that was either very carefully worded or Not so carefully worded. Maybe he placed himself with the Wayne family with the expectation that he would quietly mooch of some rich idiot until he was ready to be on his own. Or maybe he wished himself to be a part of the batclan, taking up a mask and patroling with them as a bird that Doesn't Exist.

Ofc eventually the spell has to be broken, leaving the bats confused worried scared angry probably even amused, and a billion other things. WHY did this teenager decide to adopt himself into the Wayne/bat family? Who the hell is he and where did he come from. Someone call Zatanna, there is some magic Fuckery going on.