dp x dc prompt #34
Everyone always says that having a good reaction time is a great thing in a town where ghosts attack daily. Nobody ever warned him that sometimes it’s a bad thing to punch first and ask questions later.
Danny gets startled by Bane while wandering around Gotham, and punts him four blocks into a brick wall. Danny scrambles to get gone before anyone notices, but unfortunately for him, Gotham has eyes everywhere. And one Red Robin cannot believe that a twink of a guy just sent one of their physically strongest rogues flying like it was nothing.
I have done a brief yandere Damian post in the past, it is now time for the next best boy.
Yandere! Tim x Danny
Tim loved watching the sun setting over the skyline of the city buildings. He loved watching the reds, the purples and blues blending until finally the night encased Gotham entirely.
He loved watching the hurried steps of strangers as they maneuvered around packed crowds through worn streets. Or small groups slipping through dirty alleys where clinging shadows whisked them away to disappear into the ever-present smog of Gotham.
He loved pacing across rooftops, quiet feet leading him from ledge to ledge so that he could peer over the edge and see the world from above.
From that point of view he could see everything and anything, the same as he had done when he was younger and chasing a man dressed as a bat and a boy adorned in reds and yellows rushed through the air with gleeful laughter.
Even now as a vigilante, named as Red Robin, the results were the same.
Tim loved people watching.
And Tim loved watching Danny the most.
Danny was different from Gotham and its people.
He was softer and warmer — a flame that crackled and flickered amongst the coldness and wariness of this city that Tim has known all his life.
Danny with skin as pale as moonlight, whose touch was as soft as a feather kiss because all he had ever known were cruel hands and tight grips. Danny with eyes filled to the brim with stars of beautiful blue that shimmered with delight, because he had never been taught to wrap himself up in masks and placid words just to get by. Danny with a smile that barely pulled up on sharp fangs because Danny always felt guilty when people would flinch at the sight of his too animalistic teeth.
Danny, Danny, Danny, Danny Danny DannyDannyDannydannydannydanny —
Tim loved watching Danny as much as he loved Danny himself.
The boy whose heart beat unsteadily, and whose heart ceased functioning when black hair turned white.
This is who he loved.
And Tim hated nothing more than when the things he loved were hurt.
Danny didn’t understand.
He was different.
He was soft.
He was damaged.
He didn’t understand the harm that came with a heart that still pumped blood in sluggish and tired bursts. He didn’t understand the harm that came when his heart fell abruptly still, cold and empty as blue eyes turned green and black hair turned white.
He did not understand the harm that came with pale skin bruised by larger hands, both young and old.
Danny didn’t understand how much harm truly came upon him from the threats within this world. Threats that not only existed in his rogues, but by ordinary, simple humans.
The harm that can exist from fellow students, from neighbors, from the GIW, and his fucking p a r e —
Danny didn’t understand.
He was different.
He was soft.
Even when physical abuse and emotional abuse littered across Danny’s flesh and sensitive ears like poison on open wounds. Even when he became Phantom, a lost soul on the brink between living and dead, who tried so hard to protect.
Even for people who didn’t deserve it.
Tim had never known someone as stubborn as Danny.
But Tim loved that about him too.
Tim loved the sheer determination to be good. To be kind… .
It was heroic. It was Danny.
And just as Tim had done, once upon a time when dogging the steps of Batman whose mourning bled into violence, Tim did what he had to.
He did what he had to.
Back again with Danny being adopted by other batfam members.
But this time I thought of the absolute comedy of Damian, tiny squirt and five apples tall, deciding that he is now a father to a grown ass teenage Danny.
It was an accident and had never been his intention to adopt another being.
But it had been placed into Damian’s head that in order to be a potential Batman he had to have his own Robin. And the only way to have his own Robin was to have a child, similar to the way that Father would pick up the various children and teenagers amongst them.
Damain had a very specific list of requirements for his potential child-Robin. Danny did not meet any of those requirements, and yet here Damian was having forged papers for the now Daniel Al Ghul-Wayne, and beginning the treacherous affair of introducing his son to the family.
Danny twisted his new shirt sleeve with a frown. It was a nice green silk that complimented the little green that resided in his son’s eyes. Damian wished to bring out the many carefully crafted features of Danny that could match to Damian. Having his eyes pop, wild hair brushed and losing the battle to nervous hands, would have to do.
At least until Damian taught Danny his mother tongue and began the care of his culture and soon to be heritage.
It all started when Danny learned he was to be Vlad's heir for VladCo. And he needed to learn how to be a CEO.
But Danny needed help! He needed a way to help the employees and be a good CEO.
So he asked Clockwork who had the best idea. He threw him through a portal and told him he would be a great CEO once he was out.
In Gotham
Danny landed in Gotham came out of Wayne Enterprises as a toddler. And I just followed the employees on their day to see how they were doing it.
The Wayne employees didn't really do anything when they saw the black hair blue eyed toddler. I was just thinking that Bruce Wayne adopted a new child.
Danny had already spent two months helping the people at Wayne Enterprises. Before Tim notices the toddler in the company, and was pretty confused.
And that was how the company learned he wasn't an adoptive child of Bruce. But that changed as the CEO Bruce saw him.
Welcome to the family of Danny Wayne.
BONUS
A FEW YEARS LATER.
Bruce had already been crying for two hours. Jason: " Why is he crying?" Tim:' Danny said he doesn't want to be an icky Hero but a cool CEO. " Bruce:" I didn't do anything wrong this time…"
Bruce was super happy!
For Danny he already had been a hero and was very happy, as he didn't need to be one any more in Amity Park. Forget it; he will be the best CEO in the world!
The Justice League has been tracking the movements of a person or group that's taking any CADMUS cloning tech. They need to track them down and put a stop to whatever plan they have.
When they eventually made it to the hideout they discovered, it was just one scientist who was a former CADMUS scientist, and he had already made clones with the DNA he had collected. The scientist didn't even try to put up a fight or anything. He was just happy to give the Clones to them and be put away (The scientist is one who believes that these clone children be the turning point in the world when they are older, he's happy that the Justice League found him first, and not his former colleagues).
All the clones are children, and they were raised as siblings and actual people by the scientist they apprehended. They even got to choose their own names.
The oldest clone is a girl who is the clone of Nightwing and Flash (Wally). She is smart, and the notes on her by the scientist said that she'll develop the speedster power in her teenage years. She named herself Jasmine, but prefers Jazz
The next clone was a boy who was cloned from Red Robin, Superboy, and their civilian boyfriend Bernard. The notes on him said that he'll get the strengths of a kryptonian that was raised on earth, and the mixture of the Lazarus Waters in his DNA had somehow negated his weakness to Kryptonite. He named himself Danny.
The next is another girl cloned from Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. The notes for her said that she'll have Poison Ivy's ability to control plants when she's a teenager. Her chosen name is Sam.
The next is a black boy cloned from Aqualad and Cyborg. In the notes, the boy is said to develop sand powers, unlike Kaldur, who has water and electricity related powers. His chosen name is Tucker.
The next is yet another girl cloned from John Stewart Green Lantern and Wonder Woman. The notes on her said that she's chosen to train in martial arts and is expected to be a good fighter by her teenage years. She chose Valerie as her name.
Amd finally, a boy who was cloned from Red Hood and Arsenal. While the notes on him said that he won't develop any powers, he is smart and has sharp eyes. He chose Wesley as his name.
Elsewhere, the Ghost of Time looks at the world his King and his fraid have been put in for their rebirth. They had all perished at the hands of the GIW and the Fentons, Dani was the only one to be saved, the GIW and the Fentons had her contained and were about to end her like the others, but Vlad, Dan, and the other Ghosts had overwhelmed them to save the Princess. Vlad will be the Regent for a while, with Dan as his personal guard. Fright Knight is always following his king by being in his shadow, intending to keep his oath to the Crown. While his King and his fraid will not remember their past lives, they will most definitely return to the Infinite Realms, but on much better terms than their first time.
You already know Danny absolutely takes every chance he can to embarrass Vlad. Every single one.
They’re attending a Gala and Danny does everything in his power to ensure everybody thinks they’re vampires. Hisses at people, loudly talks about 1800’s events as if he were there, and recoils when he sees a woman’s cross necklace. Everything he can to perpetuate rumors. Vlad is exasperated. His name and pale skin, along with the fact nobody in high society has ever seen him in the day, does not help this rumor.
They’re visiting metropolis to take a tour of LexCorp because Vlad has to sign some type of business agreement. Danny is there because Maddie thought it would be nice for him to get out of Amity every once in a while. The business agreement is out the window the moment Danny walks in the room and loudly proclaims, “oh! So you’re the ‘bald idiot’ my godfather keeps mentioning.”
Vlad knows no peace, even in amity park. He has to give a speech as its mayor? Danny is either in the crowd, asking him the stupidest questions, or he’s trying to convince the town, as phantom, that Vlad was his killer when he was alive.
Just everything he can to make this man’s life more difficult.
So basically, Dick makes a group chat for the minorities in the family because sometimes Bruce just doesn’t get it you know?
And Danny? Started going to school in Gotham. That’s it.
Dick created a group chat.
Dick renamed the group chat “The Minority Chat”
Dick: Okay everyone, if you don’t have a reason to stay, leave.
Dick: Nobody left.
Tim: Well yeah, Dick. All of us are minorities.
Damian: Yes, I have to agree with Drake. For example, I am half Arabic.
Duke: I’m black.
Cass: …
Babs: I’m disabled.
Steph: Teen pregnancy.
Tim: RAMCOA
Dick: Well what about you Jason?
Jason: I fucking died bro.
Dick renamed the group chat “Sib Chat”
This group chat went on to become the best way for them to vent to each other about Bruce and share memes to each other. They also sometimes randomly kick someone out so the others can stalk them. This time it was Damian’s turn.
Duke has removed Damian from “Sib Chat”
Duke: Guys I just saw the weirdest shit on patrol today.
Cass: ?
Babs: With Damian? He’s meant to be at school today.
Tim: He’s there, his tracker hasn’t moved locations.
Steph: When did you sneak a tracker onto Damian?
Tim: Don’t worry about it.
Duke: Don’t worry he is at school. But get this. I saw him eating his lunch outside. And he was talking to someone. AND SMILING.
Cass: 😮
Tim: Was it his “I’m gonna kill this guy while he’s sleeping” smile?
Duke: NO
Tim: Oh shit
Babs: Did you see who it was? I can run a background check.
Duke: No. But I will keep you posted. Where are Jason and Dick btw?
Babs: Dick is sleeping and Jason got shot.
Duke: Oh okay. Don’t let him administer his own Dilaudid.
Babs: Trust me, I won’t.
A few weeks later
Duke has removed Damian from “Sib Chat”
Babs: Please tell me you got info
Duke: I do. And it’s weird
Jason: Don’t tell me Dami got a SO and didn’t tell me?!
Duke: God I hope not.
Cass: ???
Steph: Spill the tea macho man
Duke: Recognized the backpack from last time. I saw the kid Dami was all smiley with at a coffee shop and I shit you not, he looks like if Damian was white.
Jason: The fuck does that mean?
Duke: IM TELLING YOU! He was Damian but white!
Steph: What would that even look like?
Cass: 🤔
Jason: I’ll believe it when I see it.
6 hours later after dark
Jason: Holy shit you were right.
Duke: YOU SAW HIM TOO?!
Jason: That was terrifying.
Dick: Wait this isn’t a joke? I thought Duke was pulling our leg-
Damian: What are you two rambling on about?
Tim: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Damian: I do not believe you.
Cass: …
Damian: Fine. I will not interrogate you all. I am going to get ready for patrol anyways.
Dick has removed Damian from “Sib Chat”
Dick: I wasn’t paying attention until now so you all better tell me everything.
The Observants keep saying that, per the "rules", Superman has to stay there unless he can find a way to break out on his own.
The problem is that Danny doesn't think he's gonna do that, because Superman found a boy that he apparently adopted at some point during a previous breakout attempt and isn't gonna let that kid go any time soon. And the kid is bound to the Ghost Zone.
Clockwork isn't saying anything, just looking at Danny expectantly.
Danny...
Danny has a crazy idea.
"I'm formally adopting Superman. I'm Superman's dad now, and that kid's grandpa."
"...You do not even know 'that kids' name."
"Irrelevant, my main objective here is adopting Superman. If that kid is his kid then I guess he's in for the ride too."
"To what point and purpose is this circus act, Phantom?" One of the Observants asks, sounding tired.
"I have permission to leave whenever I want, cuz I'm a denizen. If Superman is my son, and by extension that other kid is my grandson, then they have the same rights. Cuz they're denizens now."
The 'suck my dick' part of that explanation was greatly implied, and by the glares being sent his way the Observants had sensed the implication.
"You cannot adopt someone in the Infinite Realms without a higher being blessing the..."
"I approve."
Everyone turned to stare at Clockwork, who just sat there.
Smugly.
"...Very well. Superman, also known as Clark Kent, and his adoptive son, Christopher Kent, are hereby formally acknowledged as the son and grandson of Phantom, also known as Daniel James Fenton."
"Why you gotta doxx us like that?" Danny asked, voice smaller than he would have liked.
He had NOT intended to find out Superman's super secret identity.
~~~~~~
Clark had gotten sucked into the Phantom Zone, and actually managed to find Chris. But he couldn't get out, and he had to go back; his family was counting on him, the world was counting on him, and he missed everyone.
Enter, Phantom; a newer hero, a ghost that looks like a child.
Phantom adopts him and Chris both, and gets them out.
Jon is, of course, thrilled to have a little brother. Chris is cautiously happy to have a big brother.
Clark's just happy they're trying to get along.
He'd been worried Jon would be defensive or angry, but it seems to be working out.
There are other things to worry about.
For instance; Clark has, ever since the adoption, been able to see ghosts. Not a big deal, and a trade off he's willing to accept if it means getting out of the Phantom Zone and keeping Chris.
No, seeing ghosts isn't a big deal at all. (Maybe a little, he did get to see Pa again, after all. But it isn't a bad thing, is what he more means.)
What is a big deal, Clark thinks, is searching the name the eyeball people had given and finding out that Daniel James Fenton is very fucking much alive.
He really is only fifteen. It's not a ghost that looks fifteen, he is fifteen. He is a kid.
This kid lives in Amity Park, his parents are ghost hunters, and Clark would really like to know how a fifteen year old got separated from his soul and still manages to function.
Rumpelstiltskin, a fairytale that many have heard at least some point in their lives, but if you haven’t, here’s a brief summary: a girl is confined to a castle to weave gold string from straw with nothing but a spindle. She has any normal human being cannot do that, so an imp named a Rumpelstiltskin offered to do it for her in exchange for her future, first born child.
That’s what the JL believes Marvel is.
As for why? Well…
Marvel: *watching tv in a rec room while on a spinning wheel, weaving gold*
Flash: *walks in* “Woah… Dude how are you doing that?”
Marvel: “Huh?”
Flash: “How’re you doing that?” *points to a couple rolls of gold string*
Marvel: “Oh. Y’know, magic. Wanna learn?” *stands up*
Flash: “I can?” *gets in his seat immediately* “I thought you said it needed magic?”
Marvel: “Yes, but there are ways for normal humans to do it.”
With that, Marvel started teaching him how to do it. Barry and gave up an hour in. It was just too difficult.
Marvel and Flash: *now chilling on the couch together*
Flash: “By the way, where do you get this whole ass spinning wheel from?”
Marvel: “I stole it back from a sorcereress I loaned it to a couple hundred years ago.”
Flash: “Oh ew. Was she one of those people that pretended to borrow stuff only to keep it?”
Marvel: “I guess. Honestly, I’m just more mad at what she did with it. I had to undo the enchantments on it because they were extremely dangerous.”
Flash: “What enchantments?”
Marvel: “She made it so that if you were to prick your finger on the needle, you’d fall asleep forever.”
Flash: “Huh. You know, that sounds a little familiar.”
or
Marvel: *walks into a meeting, looking grim, holding a newborn baby*
JL: *looking between him and the baby*
Supes: “Cap…? What’s with the baby?”
Marvel: “Uh… I think she’s mine now?”
Supes: “You thi—”
GL: “Who’s the mom?! You didn’t tell us you had a wife or a girlfriend??”
Marvel: “I don’t.”
*silence*
GL: “Is she your niece then?”
Marvel: “No.”
GL: “Cousin?”
Marvel: “No.”
GL: “Second cousin?”
Marvel: “Nope.”
*more silence*
Batman: “Captain, did you take someone’s baby?”
Marvel: “Wha— no. Well, actually now that I think about it kind of.”
Batman: “Pardon?”
Marvel: “See, I was joking around with the lady. I did something for her and I jokingly, emphasis on jokingly, told her that in return, I’d take her firstborn child. I didn’t think she’d actually give it to me, let alone so willingly.” *looking at the baby all sad*
JL: *horrified and disturbed*
Marvel: “She also wouldn’t take it back, no matter how hard I asked or told her it was a joke.”
That’s how the entire meeting got derailed and they all started focusing on the baby and who would take care of it. Marvel, because he was the one who got himself into the situation, opted to do it. So, that’s how Baby Marvel was introduced to all of them. It was such a cutie, and Barry was a ecstatic that it was a ginger.
Billy doesn’t even know of these allegations by the way.
Dick was asked to pick up Damian from the dog park on his way home from Blud. When he wasn’t standing at the entrance Dick went in to go find him, stretch his legs and all. The last place he expected to find his baby brother was unconscious in the bushes. He had dark fresh bruises on his face, and Titus was nowhere in sight.
Whoever did this to his little brother will have hell to pay. That would have to come later though, the most important thing right now is getting Damian home.
Once he had the boy settled in the car he immediately calls Bruce as he starts to drive.
“Hello-“
“Bruce! Something happened at the park! I found Damian unconscious, bloody, and bruised in the bushes!” Dick struggled to hide the anger he was feeling right now. “Prep the medbay!”
Not even waiting to hear Bruce’s response he hangs up the call. Dick can’t handle a productive conversation right now, not when his brother lays silently in the backseat of his car.
It only took him a few more minutes to finally reach the manor, and when he did Bruce was already standing outside waiting for them. As soon as the car was stopped the back door was being thrown open, and Damian was being carried inside before being brought down to the cave.
Alfred, already down there, immediately went to work on patching the little boy up. At the same time Dick and Bruce discussed what the next steps will be.
About ten or so minutes pass, and in the middle of them talking another figure—and a dog—angrily enters the cave.
“Grayson!” Damian snarled, “because of you I had to call Drake to get me! What do you have to say for yourself!”
Dick was flabbergasted with what he saw in front of him, but it also provided clarity to the situation.
The boy in the bush looked exactly like Damian, yes. But the clothes he was wearing was nothing his brother would ever wear. He had old scars that didn’t match up.
Looking towards the med bay he had only one thought.
Who was the boy he found, and why did he look like Damian?