Lucky Rush AU

Can't Love An Anchor

Inspired by: Anchor by @hello-eden

While Tim was relieved to have Bruce back in his proper place and everyone safe and exactly where they were supposed to be, it really only served to remind him that they were all horribly unreliable and that he would not be able to trust these people with something so important as his beloved Dani, the daughter of his very soul. She had gone to all the trouble of helping him in his new incarnation to the point of becoming so injured that the only way to save her was to incubate her core and he would not be taking any sort of chances with her safety. Not again, not with them. At least with Bruce back and things relatively back to normal he could trust that Gotham would remain in one piece while he was gone.

Tim sighed, his mortal body heavy and exhausted with the sudden pregnancy and the lack of proper nutrition and sleep as he worked hard to gather together the things he needed to return to the Infinite Realms. He wouldn’t stay for his whole mortal life of course, but he would need an actually safe space to incubate his clone child. He really couldn’t risk Dani on a vigilante mission or getting sucked into some dangerous what-not in Gotham. It would suck and kind of drive him a little crazy but he needed to detach until he could give birth to Dani and get back into the lifestyle again. Though things would have to change a lot after Dani came; she would also be half-mortal after all and he would need to actually raise her himself this time. Their relationship would be much closer than the “cousins” they had settled for in their first lives together.

Tim could admit if only to himself that he was actually looking forward to having a family again. Before his memories had come back he had desperately, to an embarrassing degree really, been hoping that the Wayne's would be that family. But being reunited with Dani he could have his own real family! She would be his daughter this time and though he wasn’t Danny Fenton anymore, with this reincarnation she also wouldn’t be Danielle Phantom anymore! She would be Danielle Drake, he already had it all planned out. He was so excited, not so much about having to go through the nightmare of teen pregnancy, but Dani was back! The only way it would be better would be if Jazz could join him in the mortal world.

Being Tim Drake had been a lot lonelier than being Danny Fenton ever had been. Until he had regained his memories of his life and death as Danny Fenton, Tim hadn’t really realized just how lonely he had been. He missed his best friends, he missed his family, hell he even missed Dan. Which was its own can of worms. But still, Tim had many new plans for this shift in his life. He may not have any support in the mortal world but he would be returning to the Infinite Realms and at least by going to the Infinite for protection and hiding out he could be reunited with Jazz and even Sam and Tucker. He wondered how their Lairs had developed while he was gone. It would be nice to get to talk to them again.

The reality of it was that with Tim’s previous life and death’s memories restored his view of the bat “family” and his own relationships with each of them individually had shifted down to a fundamental level and he just couldn’t view them in the same way he had before he had “woken up”. So when Tim managed to make all his arrangements and gather everything he needed; he hadn’t even thought to inform them of what was going on and where exactly he would be going. In fact, the most he had done was send a company email explaining a sudden leave of absence due to health concerns and a brief letter he was sure that Bruce would eventually come across once he needed help again. It had a list of numbers and resources to contact for assistance and access to one of his better AI systems to help with any cases they happened to get stuck on.

Tim was hoping they wouldn’t actually need him for the next year or so. He wanted to be sure Dani was strong enough for a nanny by the time he needed to start working again. He was on the fence about retiring as a vigilante entirely until Dani was old enough. He wondered if she would want to become his sidekick; that might be fun! Oh, but his heart couldn’t bear it if she got hurt this badly again. Tim put those speculations aside so that he could focus on making a new portal gun so that he could get back into the Infinite, it had been ages since he’d used ectoplasm in his tech. It was quite fun to work on proper ghost tech again! The gun didn’t even take him all that long, so much for all that unnecessary prep work!

Still, as that swirling green sparked into existence in the middle of his safe house living room and the comforting chill of the Infinite Realms spilled into the room and across his very soul Danny…Tim breathed in deeply and felt the first comforting chill of coming home wash over him, his steps firm and steady as he walked into that endless green. The shift from one realm to the next might have disoriented anyone else, but Tim only felt at last like all the weight of his human life had been lifted as vast green skies opened up in his vision and a towering castle like observatory tower welcomed him back.

“Welcome home Danny, you’re early.” A gentle teasing voice greeted him as the green portal collapsed behind him.

Tim Drake-Wayne left behind only a farewell letter, a bare safe house, his resources, and a positive pregnancy test in the trash.

Reblog if you also think Toph shouldn’t have been a cop.

I want to see how “unpopular” this opinion really is outside cop-worshipping Reddit.

Bus to Nowhere by foldingfacets aka @precarious-hermit is very good take on Danny-on-the-run plot

and also im ridiculously in love with the whole Tommy ‘Dumpster’ ‘Snacks’ Kingdan thing

Incubus Phantom

Amazing just amazing

@empyrealart @silvercdeer @caminc91 @swanpit @tammyhybrid21

@vampirebrunoau

DPxDC: Jarro Adopts an Alien

Ok, so Danny has a space obsession and a protection obsession (I headcanon that as a halfa, Danny has two obsessions like all Halfas do which makes them unique to other ghosts.) and so while he can get his fill protecting people in Amity, he struggles with his space obsession. Sure, he can look up everything he can about space and the stars on the internet. He can stay up until 2 am looking at the stars (who needs sleep? He’s a ghost, he can go days, or even weeks without sleep if he wants, same with a lack of air or food.) but it’s just not enough. He craves to learn more, see more. Just as Dani gets that itch to travel, Danny wonders. What would it be like to see the stars up close? Are they really as hot as a dragons fire breath? Hotter!? Or maybe they are so hot they are cold. What does it look like to see plasma dancing across the surface, or touch the gasses of Jupiter? Does Pluto have ice caves like the far frozen? How many planets are actually out there? What about Mars. There’s a whole species living there with a language and culture Danny can’t even fathom! Oh what he wouldn’t give to talk with martian manhunter or Superman. 

And what’s stopping him from exploring this? He can fly. He doesn’t need air. He can go intangible if it gets too hot and he’s practically immune to the cold. He wants to touch a space rock! See if they are smooth because there is no wind or earth to rub against them and erode the surface. He wants to see what planets they come from. What minerals they might have. He wants to know if there are currents in space. All of these things are right there just above the atmosphere. Surely it couldn’t hurt to take a quick peek. So he does. During a particularly bad day Danny flies as fast as he can until the earth’s gravity looses its effects. Until his hair is floating as of it’s in water even more than normal. Until he can feel when breathing no longer became a choice (still not necessary though). And it…was beautiful. To be surrounded by space. To see the earth like this. Pictures just didn’t do it Justice. He flew across the solar system and as he passed planets, he longed to fly through them. To search every crevice and learn their secrets. But he had a bigger prize in mind at the moment. The crown jewel of their universe. The closest star he could find. The sun. 

Danny was mesmerized. The plasma really did dance across the surface. Like a never ending performance of science and beauty. There were sparks that few in arcs. Danny flew down and played in them, making a game to see how many he could fly under. His ghost core purred in delight. His obsession had never been more satisfied. He spent hours out there. Just exploring what his solar system had to offer. So when he returned? He couldn’t just forget. Pictures and online science theories had nothing on the real thing. He wanted to explore some more. So he did. Every night he would go out and explore the cosmos. Flying from planet to planet. (Either the Martians were still around and Danny made friends with them, even learning their language, or he just looks at their ruins to learn as much as he can). And with both obsessions now being filled, Danny is more settled. More confident. And he can focus better. Everyone notices the change, even his teachers. They just think that he’s paying more attention to his education now. He’s even better during his ghost fights. 

But Danny can fly awfully fast. And he soaks up information even faster. Soon his trips take longer and longer as he flies further out. Sometimes he can barely make it back in time for school. And he can't go every night. Sometimes the ghosts won’t wait for daytime so he has to make sure the town will be safe in his absence. Although he’s been able to take more trips ever since Valerie joined the vigilante ranks. But still, he’s getting farther and farther from earth each night. Until one day he’s visited every planet, every star, every comet or debris in their solar system. Which would be fine. He could deal with that if that was all there was. But it wasn’t. Danny saw the stars just out of reach. He saw places the Milky Way was leaning towards. He saw just the barest hints of new solar systems with new planets and stars. And he knew of legends from lanterns that they had posted online. Heard tales from some scientists that have made better telescopes. And his core itches. It aches to know more. See more. Yet he can't go further. And this puts him in a sort of depression. Suddenly he’s back to his old self. Lagging behind. Distracted. Zoning out. Crashing into a few more buildings during ghost attacks. Yet he tries so hard to be satisfied with what he has. He can still fulfill his obsession…it’s just more like chewing on a granola bar rather than eating a decent meal. He’s almost becoming lethargic. 

So one day he goes to Frostbite to see if there’s anything he can do to lessen the effects. But the yeti just takes one look at him and gives him the infimap. And suddenly Danny is in a whole new universe in seconds. The planets are purple. The stars are blue. He’s pretty sure there are furry blob-like creatures living on one of those planets. And suddenly he gets that itch, but holding the infimap, he knows he had time, so he lets himself go. 

And for a while it’s good. great even. Since he can’t keep asking the yetis for the infimap, he goes over to Wulf to see if he’s up for an adventure. Most of the time he is and they go exploring the galaxies together. And then Wulf had the genius idea of teaching Danny how to make portals. It took a long time but soon, he could concentrate the surrounding ectoplasm enough to weaken it and pull. It took a while since Danny didn’t have ecto claws and would have to use his pure will. But this would allow him to follow his obsession anytime, anywhere. So it was only a matter of time. And once he figured it out? It was like something was unlocked. Danny had never before understood how Ellie could travel so much. But now he did. That feeling when you discover something new. When you add to your reservoir of knowledge. When the patterns in the universe just click. There is nothing Danny could compare it to. And to explore that whenever he wanted? It was so freeing. While Wulf sometimes still joined Danny’s adventures, Danny did most of his explorations by himself. 

He meets various planets and aliens. So many different cultures. He learns thousands of languages. Tries all kinds of foods (and it’s a good thing his ghost self has an iron stomach and he’s basically poison resistant.) even found a whole comet where blood blossoms grew. (Which he most definitely avoided). And wasn’t that fascinating? To find out they were from space. 

And then during his travels one day he met a space alien starfish. 

It was actually a funny story. A meteor shower was about to attack a planet of talking blue monkey creatures with 4 arms. Danny immediately started diverting them and was soon joined by some lantern corps (which his inner fanboy wanted to talk to so bad.). And a tiny starfish in a…Robin uniform? Oh and the starfish could apparently do martial arts which was interesting to watch him karate chop a meteor. He could also talk directly into Danny’s head which the halfa found more interesting. So they got to talking and apparently his name was Jarro. He seemed to be helping the lantern corps as a ‘proxy from earth’ to make better use of his skills. 

Danny would run into Jarro a few more times. Sometimes he was with Lanterns and sometimes he would just be exploring the galaxies. They started forming a pretty strong friendship and Danny would start seeking out the starfish alien to travel with him. He knew all kinds of space facts. Apparently he had an eidetic memory. When they explored, sometimes Jarro would just stick to part of Danny. Wrapped around his arm, his waist, sometimes just sticking to his back like a strange backpack. But they always had fun.

So Danny was happy. He could fulfill both obsessions and got a space pal. Everything was great!

Until the GIW caught him. 

It would probably be the worst day of his life.  There was an explosion in the lab. Something set up by them after they realized Danny frequented that place often. So they set a trap and blew it up. Thankfully, Jazz was at college during this but both his parents were home. When the explosion went off, Danny had tried putting a Barrier around them all. It took everything he had to maintain it. That’s how they found out he was phantom. Danny had a few moments where his parents said they accepted him but he couldn’t hold the barrier for long. His parents said that they loved him and then everything went green. He woke up in a lab, tired and injured. His only saving grace being that he remained in phantom form. And he was determined to remain so. 

Danny’s time at the GIW was a haze but eventually, he managed to escape. Bleeding, and tired, and still recovering from the burns in the explosion, Danny made a portal straight to Amity. Only when he got there, it was a ghost town. Streets were empty, buildings were boarded up. Even the Nasty Burger was deserted. As for his house, there was nothing but a crater left and some scattered debris. Danny looked everywhere but there was no one. No Jazz. No Sam. No Tucker. No one. and he was tired. And everything hurt, and he needed a friend. Someone he could trust. So in a daze he made a portal and tried to just project safe. Safe safe safe. Somewhere he knew he would be protected. And so Jarro got a surprise when his space buddy suddenly popped out of a green portal, bleeding green and clearly passed out. He didn't know what to do. He didn’t know how to help him. But Jarro knew someone who would. 

So with a speed never before seen from a tiny starfish, he flew to earth. Bringing his friend straight to his father. Because surely batman could help!

And with his appearance, the green blood, the knowledge of space facts. The lack of wanting to talk about where he came from (and the nightmares crying out for his parents). This is how the bats became convinced that Jarro brought them an injured alien. 

Tumblr we need to band together and draw our favs like this

Oh my God that is hilarious now I'm just imagining

that Danny's babysitting business is called ghostly babysitting and the Gav is now painted like a luminescent Lazarus green with little silver stickers all around it

But it's still in the inside looks entirely like the Gav but now it has the ability to turn into the specter speeder in the infinite realms but still has all the missiles and guns just in case anything happens

The Justice League of fighting some ghosts and don't know how to defeat them so they call up Danny

Danny driving through a green portal with Gav and getting out the weapons and pulling out Damien and John and being like

Danny: all right you brats ( affectionately) we have to help out these heroes cuz they don't know how to fight the villain so which one of y'all want to get the guns and which one of y'all want to shoot the missiles

Damian got put on missile duty in front of everyone and Jonathan got put on duty they captured the villain in 2 minutes and 13 seconds Batman timed it

Now Bruce is trying to offer Danny to live in the Wayne Manor what type of skill needs to be kept from becoming a villain

Superman is kind of impressed but a little scared that Danny has to take Jon with him sometimes on these missions

Danny as a ancient of balance becomes Dr Fate and Klarion supervisor practically

He keeps Dr Fate from pushing too much order and Klarion from too much chaos Danny is also in charge of bringing up their arguments

Also Danny is trying to continue his normal human life and Gotham he is part-time Damian and Jon babysitter

Danny normally takes those two with him when he's recommending Klarion and Doctor Fate along with the two kids he's babysitting a t-shirt that says we must get along

So imagine justice league dark reaction when they see what looks like a 15-year-old teenager yelling at Doctor Fate and Klarion

With Damian Wayne and Jonathan Kent and standing behind him with boba in hand

I truly like the crack idea of Danny being order and chaos's supervisors and being entirely done of their bull crap and we'll be using child techniques of forcing them to hold hands or wearing a large t-shirt until they get along

Yeah this is pure crack hahaha, I love it. I could imagine this as a more serious idea if he also wasn’t babysitting Damian and Jon. How would that even work anyways, Jon doesn’t live Gotham, and why are Batman and Superman just. Letting all that happen? For shits and giggles that’s why.