#since Jack and maddie would have opened the portal anyway

[five-rivers]

A Page from the Diary of Sam Manson

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@aggressivelyclueless

July 21st, 20XX

Thanks to our ~wonderful~ mayor, I now know that some plants do… things.  To ghosts.  Even if they weren’t grown by ghosts.  Between that and Undergrowth…

I’m going to start a log of different plants and their effects on ghosts.  I’ll be using ethical and scientific methods, unlike some people.  I won’t say their names.  

Jack and Maddie Fenton.  

Oh, no~ Did someone hear that?  Someone said some names, oh, no~

I’m never going to be able to let Danny see this.  

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July 23rd, 20XX

I did some research and I have some simple things that are supposed to affect ghosts.  Evil spirits.  Whatever.  I don’t actually believe this stuff changes what it does based on the morality of the ghost it’s being waved near, but who knows?  Ghost stuff is crazy, sometimes. 

I’ll make a list of what each thing is supposed to do, and then once I’ve tested it I’ll come back and make a new list.  Also going to count stuff that’s supposed to ward off fairies or witches, because why not.

Rosemary - Supposed to ward off evil spirits, the evil eye, and witches, sometimes dropped into graves to keep loved ones from being forgotten.  

Sage - Wards off spirits.  <- Apparently this is only white sage and it’s usually misused.  Hold off on this.  

Mountain-Ash (Rowan) - Keeps you from getting lost, wards off witches, fairies, or other supernatural things.  Works as a ‘portal’ between this world and the next.  Definitely check this out.

Wormwood - Wakes the dead.  Also in absinthe.  Hallucinogenic, maybe.  Ew.

So much crazy poisonous stuff.  I’m 99% convinced they only thought this had anything to do with ghosts or spirits because it would kill you dead.  

Also hallucinogenics.  

I’m not feeding Danny anything I know is hallucinogenic.  

Actually, I shouldn’t feed him anything at all.  

Elder - Makes ghosts angry if you burn it.  Apparently because witches live in it.  

I don’t know.  A lot of this sounds really stupid, now that I have it all written out.  

Ugh.  I’ll try it anyway.  

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July 24th, 20XX

Got Danny to cooperate.  

Rosemary - No effect on Danny either way.  Did not help him remember his English vocab.  Actually, he got worse.  Also, he ate it on a dare from Tucker.  

Mountain-Ash (Rowan) - Gave Danny a branch, which initially seemed to do nothing, until he started waving it around like a wand and said ‘open sesame.’  Then he passed out and a huge natural portal opened and didn’t close for an hour.  

I’m exhausted.  

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July 31st, 20XX

Convinced Danny to help again.  Bribery always works eventually.  Even if they say ‘never again’ at the top of their lungs a hundred times.  

It’s for his own good, anyway.  

Wormwood - Got Danny to go to sleep and then threw some on him.  He stayed asleep.  Even when Tucker squished some up and held it under his nose.  

Now I feel bad.  He doesn’t sleep very much.  

Shoot.  

I’ll leave elder for tomorrow.  

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August 1st, 20XX

Elder - Danny just stared at me like he was really tired.  His ghost sense went off like a second later, but I’m not sure that’s related.  

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August 2nd, 20XX

Rosemary - Handed some to the Box Ghost after asking if he wanted some.  No change.  Brought it home to his ‘wife.’

Since when is he married?  And why is Danny making that face every time we bring it up?

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August 7th, 20XX

Had a wonderful talk with Dora!  Got a few new things to try.  She said that funeral flowers make ghosts sleepy.  It might be a little hard to test this with Danny, seeing as he’s always sleepy.  

There are a lot of different funeral flowers, though.  I’m thinking I’ll get a bouquet of one each and see if that makes Danny fall asleep faster or slower.  I should probably test a few different times, too, to get an average.  

I want to test: lilies, carnations, mums, glads, roses, hydrangeas, and forget-me-nots.  

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August 8th, 20XX

Lilies - 10 minutes to naptime.

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August 9th, 20XX

Lilies - 30 minutes to naptime.  

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August 10th, 20XX

Lilies - 25 minutes to naptime.

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August 11th, 20XX

Danny has pointed out that we should measure how long it takes him to get to sleep without the flowers, first.  He has a point.  

Tucker’s going to set something up on his PDA to monitor things better.  I’ll still write the results in here.   

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August 27th, 20XX

THERE WAS NO DIFFERENCE I HATE THIS.

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August 28th, 20XX

Danny thinks the funeral flowers have to be ones from an actual funeral.  How do flowers know they were in a funeral?  That doesn’t make any sense.  

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September 3rd, 20XX

Apparently the funeral flowers from actual funerals do work as advertised.  Just.  Why.  

At least I got this before school started again.  

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September 29th, 20XX

Dora sent me a book on ghost herb lore.  She says she’ll try to get me some ghost plants, too.  

I really like some of these.  But others just freak me out.  

Ghost-nip - Induces euphoria in ghosts when they eat the stamens.  This somehow makes the ghost start producing pollen????  For the plant????

Tattoo rose - Grows under the ghost’s skin and bursts out when it blooms.  At least it’s not a perennial?  The heck?

Blood poppies - Blood blossoms, but they put the ghosts to sleep instead of torturing them.  Doesn’t sound completely horrible, but ghosts exposed to them don’t wake up until they’re removed.  Keep Danny away.  

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October 1st, 20XX

Turns out tattoo roses come in many different shapes, sizes, and colors.  In related news, guess who’s going to the Far Frozen for emergency surgery?  It isn’t me.  

We might be here a while, because he got really stabbed by that one guy, so the seeds are deep. 

Borrowing some books from the Far Frozen library.  

Winterbloom - Kind of like snowballs in the real world, but bluer.  Only grows when it’s freezing.  

Iceflower - Kind of flower that only grows around ice-core ghosts.  Apparently it is a flower and not just a type of ice formation.  Frostbite gave me some seeds.

Snow strawberries - Also called blood-on-the-snow which I like way better, honestly.  The yetis use it for deserts but also food dye.  They’re vegetarians.  All their meat is fake.  

Take that, Tucker.  Maybe I’ll eat some just to freak him out.  

Extra note: Tucker successfully freaked out.

#danny phantom #phic phight #phic phight 2023

[raaorqtpbpdy]

Father-Son Bonding (1)

With Maddie and Jazz off attending a women in STEM conference over the weekend, Jack decides to take Danny out for the best father-son bonding activity there is—ghost hunting! They're going to catch that elusive Danny Phantom or die trying! Metaphorically, of course. Jack would never let his son die hunting ghosts, or at least... that's what he thinks.

Written for the prompts:

Jack and Danny spend quality time together hunting that damn ghost boy! Danny is being such a help! Bonus points for if they're both enjoying the endeavor. [from @pricklenettle], Jack Fenton finds out. [from @underforeversgrace], and Jack is excited to hunt ghosts alongside his ghost-powered son, and Danny is enjoying the time with his dad way more than he thought he would. Maddie, however, is deeply troubled by all the ways her son could get hurt, and her overprotectiveness causes a heaviness to fall over the Fenton family home. [from @astatia-ghast]

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Chapter 1: Danny Phantom Doesn't Know What's Coming (Ch.2; Ch.3)

[Warning for violence]

Jack Fenton was excited.

He was often excited, so that wasn't really noteworthy, but the reason he was excited this time, as opposed to all the other times was.

Jazzy had talked Maddie into going to a Women in STEM conference together during Presidents Day weekend, and that meant that it would just be him and Danny for four whole days, and he was excited. It was rare that the two of them had a boys' weekend together where they didn't have to be the ones getting out of the house. As much as Jack loved fishing, he had other plans for this weekend.

"Rise and shine, Danny boy!" Jack shouted boisterously into his son's room. "The early bird catches the ghost."

Danny groaned and sat up in his bed. He glanced at his alarm clock. "What early bird?" He asked. "Dad, it's almost ten."

"Well... it's just a metaphor," Jack said.

Danny shook his head and chuckled.

"Are you excited for our boys' weekend Danny? I've got big plans!"

"Oh yeah? What are they?"

"It's a surprise!" Jack shouted, absolutely giddy. "Now put this on and meet me in the lab downstairs!" He threw one of Danny's white Fenton jumpsuits at him.

"Let me guess, does it have something to do with ghost hunting?" Danny asked, holding up the jumpsuit and ripping off the picture of his dad's face.

Jack tried not to be too offended. He probably just wanted to match his father, since Jack's own jumpsuit didn't have any sort of logo on it.

"That's just the half of it," Jack started to say, then cut himself off. "Ah! You won't get any spoilers from me! And don't worry about about breakfast! I packed plenty of beef jerky, cereal bars, and fudge in the Fenton GAV."

"Alright Dad, I'll meet you downstairs in a few minutes," Danny said.

"The hunt is on!" Jack shouted, before leaving and closing Danny's door behind him.

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Danny chuckled as his Dad left his room. Most of the time, their father-son activities were more... fishing and catch. You know, standard things like that. As much as mom wanted her kids to be capable of fighting ghosts, training them in martial arts and marksmanship, she was a lot more hesitant to let them actually fight ghosts. She thought that they should be older before they entered the dangerous world of ghost hunting.

But when mom was away, well, that was when their dad would take the kids out on ghost hunts so they could have some real-world experience. Jazz had always hated them, but Danny had absolutely loved them when he was little. They never actually found anything back then, of course, so it was kind of like going camping and saying that you were hunting for Bigfoot.

Once the portal opened, and there actually were ghosts around—not to mention the Danny was one of them—Danny had been dreading he next time Mom went away and Dad would take him 'ghost hunting' again, but now that it was actually happening, that childish glee of being able to do something 'grown up' with his dad was coming back anyway. That illicit excitement of his father taking him to do something that his mom wouldn't approve of, something they'd have to keep a secret.

Besides, there may have been actual ghosts now, but that didn't make his dad a more competent ghost hunter. And even if they did catch something, Danny could pretend to fall or fumble and let the poor ghost loose. He knew Dad might be a little disappointed at losing the ghost, but it wouldn't get him down for long—and with how often he fumbled things himself, there was no way he'd hold it against Danny.

So Danny pulled on his jumpsuit, brushed his teeth, ran a comb through his hair, and then headed downstairs to the lab with a smile on his face.

"Danny-boy! What took you so long?" His father greeted when he entered the lab.

"It's only been five minutes," Danny pointed out. "So what's the big surprise?"

"Oh, you're gonna love this!" Jack said. He grabbed the Fenton Finder and held it up in front of Danny, who instantly tensed. "Fenton Finder, locate ghost."

The small dish on the device swiveled and the radar beeped, and Danny held his breath.

"No ghost detected," came the Fenton Finder's cold, robotic voice.

"What?" Danny asked, surprised.

His dad was practically jumping up and down. "It's the new jumpsuit!" he explained, beaming. "Ever since your accident, you've been pinging on all our devices, and your mother finally figured out that you were probably contaminated with ectoplasm during that incident. I knew I couldn't take you out ghost hunting if you were just gonna throw off all our instruments, so I designed a new jumpsuit for you and sewed it myself.

"It's a new type of fabric I invented, completely ecto-insulated, I call it Fenton Fabric!"

"Catchy," Danny said. He couldn't help the slight, incredulous shake of his head. "Dad, this is... amazing. I can't believe you did this.... Thank you."

"Oh, don't mention it, son!" he declared. "It had to be done for you to be able to join me on the hunt for the most elusive ghost we Fentons have ever tried to capture! That's right!" He wrapped a massive arm around his son's narrow shoulders. "While the girls are away, you and me are gonna be hunting Danny Phantom." Conspiratorily, he leaned down and added, "That's the second part of the surprise."

"Awesome," Danny said, and much to his own surprise, he didn't even mean that sarcastically.

Any other day, if Danny had heard his dad proudly declaring that he was going to catch Danny Phantom, he would have felt nothing but dread. Not today, though. Today, he would be right by his dad's side the whole time, and he even had a brand new jumpsuit that would prevent the ghost hunting tech from locking onto him. Today would be a father-son ghost hunt with absolutely no chance of success, just the way it should be.

Step one, as always, was to arm themselves.

"So, what kind of weapons are you thinking?" Danny asked. "Fenton Bazooka?"

"No!" Dad shouted, then he slouched and rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly. "No that one is... uh... prone to overloading and electrocuting the user. Your mom was okay with it, but I don't think we should bring it along."

"Oh."

Yeah... Danny could definitely agree with that call. He had no idea there were still such dangerous kinks to work out of Fenton Bazooka. That was good to know.

"Besides, we don't want to send that spook straight back to the Ghost Zone," his father added, waving a hand as he went to his workbench full of gizmos. "We want to capture him, and study him. That's why I propose we bring the Fenton Ghost Weasel! I caught him in it once before, you know, so I know it works."

"Yeah, you've told me the story."

"You'll bring your Fenton Thermos, too, as a back-up, of course, just in case it breaks, or something. You never can know what will go wrong on a ghost hunt, so it pays to be prepared," Jack continued. "Then there's the Fenton Finder, and the Fenton Foamer, in case he brings his buddies. What do you think, anything else?"

"Definitely the Ghost Fisher," Danny said. "If he's flying and out of range, we'll need a way to pull him in closer. Oh! And a portable ghost shield. 'Cause we're not gonna be in the RV the whole time."

"Good thinking, Dann-o," Dad agreed. "But it's not just an RV today. Today, it is the Fenton Ghost Assault Vehicle, just as it should be."

Danny smiled.

"Now, let's talk weapons."

The two of them armed themselves with the usual ecto-blasters to start with. Danny grabbed a Fenton Wrist-Ray as a back-up, and his Dad grabbed a pair of ghost gloves, since he was more of a brawler than a marksman. Danny also grabbed one of his mom's plasma-staffs, just because she wasn't here to tell him he couldn't, and he'd always wanted to try using the lightsaber-esque ghost hunting bo-staff, ever since he'd seen her use it to beat the crap out of Vlad's ghostly animal minions.

Finally, they were fully stocked and setting up a mobile HQ in the GAV, and Danny finally got a cereal bar for breakfast while his father flipped switched to fully arm and activate all the ghost hunting features in the vehicle that were usually turned off for the sake of safety. Once all that was done, the GAV pealed out of the garage and tore down the road, Fenton Finder and Spectral Sub-sonar both scanning the area for any signs of ghost activity.

The most dangerous part of ghost hunting with Dad wasn't the potentially deadly homemade ghost hunting weapons and tech, and it definitely wasn't the ghosts. No, the most dangerous part was Jack Fenton's infamous driving. He was such a menace that the local news did their best to warn the people of the town when he'd be on the roads. Danny made a point of calling Channel 4 to let them know of his father's likely plans to go ghost hunting tomorrow—and thanks the that, the roads were almost completely clear, and the pedestrians were keeping a wary eye out.

Danny, for his part, was clinging to his seat for dear life, strongly suspecting that it would be this that finally drove him into a grave. He may have been half dead already, but he was also half alive, and that half was on a roller-coaster with no safety restraints hurtling down the road—both having fun, and utterly terrified.

"Keep an eye out for any ghosts!" his father shouted over the whine of the engine and the squeal of the tires. "Even if they're not our target, any ghost we find might be able to lead us right to Phantom!"

"Roger that, Dad!" Danny shouted back, and he looked out his window, scanning the skies for any signs of that telltale green glow.

Since they weren't out to destroy any ghosts today, just capture them, Danny wasn't too worried about what would happen if they actually found some. They'd all just be put in the ghost containment cell in the lab, where Danny could 'accidentally' flush them all back into the Ghost Zone before anything bad could happen to them. He didn't see any ghosts in the sky, and his ghost sense didn't go off either, but there was a blip on the Spectral Sub-sonar.

The Spectral Sub-sonar worked by sending out periodic waves of a unique sound frequency that only occurred naturally in the Ghost Zone. It was an intangible sound, inaudible to humans because it couldn't interact with human eardrums. Danny could hear it though. It was kind of a low, resonant sound, like one of those massive orchestra drums, but quiet, and easy to ignore. It could pass right through solid objects, but bounced off anything made of ectoplasm, so it could be used to find ghosts and ghostly objects in the human world.

"I'm seeing a bogey, 9.3 klicks northwest, near the water park," Danny said.

"Well spotted, Danny!" his dad commended. "Man, we make a great team!"

The tires screeched as Dad made a sharp U-turn in that direction, and Danny tensed all his muscles to avoid getting whiplash. Then they were careening down the road toward the local Water Park. The closer they got, the more apparent it became that whatever was pinging on the sonar wasn't just near the park, it was in the water park. The parking lot was mostly empty, and Dad practically sling-shotted the GAV into an empty space... well, two empty spaces, since it was too wide for just one.

The second they stepped out of the GAV, Danny's ghost sense went off, alerting him to a ghost near by. He glanced over to make sure his dad hadn't noticed, but the bulky man was busying himself turning on the safety features before locking up so the GAV wouldn't activate against any innocent bystanders, so Danny was in the clear.

"Do you think it's that Danny Phantom?" Dad asked.

"Only one way to find out," Danny replied.

Floody Waters was still open, but this late in the autumn, there were few people there, even on a Saturday. A few families, with sopping wet little kids shivering whenever a cold breeze blew by. A couple of teenagers, the kind who didn't care if it was cold or not, and were probably planning to cause as much of a ruckus as they could manage before they were kicked out. More noteworthy than who was there was what most of them were doing, and that was screaming at the top of their lungs.

They hadn't been planning to go to the water park today, and it seemed Dad had even left his wallet (and his driver's license) at home. Still, they figured they could at least go up to the entrance and see if the park wouldn't make an exception for two ghost hunters. Much to Danny's surprise, the employee checking tickets at the entrance took one look at their jumpsuits and equipment and ushered them through.

"Oh, thank god you guys are here," the greasy-haired young man said. "It's pandemonium in there! You gotta get rid of that ghost!"

"GHOST?" Dad shouted, and tromped forward with purpose. "Have no fear! The Fenton boys are on the case!"

Danny stifled a laugh as he watched his father squeezing himself through the turnstile with absolutely no dignity whatsoever in his rush to get inside.

Danny didn't know what ghost to expect inside the water park. He'd fought ghosts there before, namely Klemper, and Johnny 13's Shadow. If it was either of them, there wouldn't be a problem. But it was a common misconception that ghosts always tended to haunt the same place, so Danny doubted it would be either of them, this time.

He was right.

The ghost terrorizing Floody Waters wasn't Klemper, or Shadow, or any of Danny's standard rogues. It was a ghost Danny had never seen before. He couldn't tell if the ghost was a man, woman, or a genderless Zone-born ghost. All he could see was a swirling vortex of water rising into the sky, casting a shadow over the park. When they spoke, their voice sounded like waves crashing against a cliff during a storm.

"Fear me, for I am Mariner!" the ghost shouted. "I am the stormy, indifferent seas, sinker of ships, drowner of sailors! This land-locked amusement center, this domesticated sea, this farce is an insult to the vast, uncontrollable ocean! I will free it, so that it may roil and churn like the true ocean, so that it may swallow its captors like a riptide, and never spit them out!"

Danny nearly transformed on instinct, before he remembered who he was with. He glanced nervously over at his dad, but the man showed no fear on his face. He stood his ground and stared up at the swirling pillar of water, sizing up the ghost.

"What do we do, Dad?" Danny asked.

Actually fighting a real ghost was not typically a part of the father-son ghost hunting adventure itinerary. Let alone a ghost this powerful whom Danny had never seen before. They were supposed to drive wildly around town, set some traps, set up a tent in the park for an overnight stake out, go out for sympathy burger the next day after finding nothing, and go home.

"Danny, the Fenton Foamer!" Dad ordered.

Danny slung the weapon off his back and tossed it over.

His dad caught it and took aim, not at the ghost, but at the water. Right before Danny's eyes, the toxic green foam mixed with the water, swirling upward until the entire waterspout took on an eerie green color, and then it collapsed, falling all at once and landing in the pools and rivers of the water park with a massive splash that soaked everyone around.

For a split second, Danny just stared at his father, shocked and impressed.

"Shoot, Danny!" his Dad ordered, snapping him out of it.

In a single motion, Danny drew his ecto-gun, took aim, and fired at Mariner.

The ghost howled in pain as they were hit right in the middle of the back, and whipped around, glowing red eyes wide with rage and fixed upon Danny and his father.

"Stand your ground, son!"

"Right!"

Reaching behind his back, Dad equipped the ghost gloves, and clenched his fists, preparing for a melee.

Mariner raised their arms, and the water churned, but it didn't do more than churn. While it was still mixed so thoroughly with the neutralizing foam from the Fenton Foamer, Mariner couldn't exert as much control over it as they had before.

"Very well," the said lowly, though their voice carried all the way to the ground. "If you dare to contaminate the tides, then I shall drag you under myself."

The ghost dove toward Danny and his father with murderous intent, and Danny, Ecto-gun still in hand, fired upon them, trying to slow them down or stop them before they reached the ghost hunters.

Mariner swerved and dodged. Now that they could see where the shots were coming from, they were a lot harder to hit, though Danny did still manage to get a couple more good hits in to the ghost's shoulder and spectral tail.

Unfortunately, he wasn't able to stop them before they reached the ground. All he'd managed to do was piss them off, and now they were flying straight at Danny. Danny threw his hands up to defend, and braced for impact, but it never came.

He heard his dad shout, and opened his eyes just in time to see an orange blob slam into Mariner, grabbing the ghost with a pair of glowing Ghost Gloves.

It was a brawl. Dad was strong, but he could only touch the ghost with his ecto-charged gloves, which put him at a disadvantage. Still, he held on for a solid minute before Mariner grabbed him and pulled him into the water.

Danny ran to the edge of the pool, looking down, desperately hoping that maybe the foam in the water would be enough to weaken the ghost and make them let go. It wasn't. It had been diluted when it mixed with all the water. At worst, Mariner only felt a slight sting. Meanwhile, Dad was thrashing and struggling, and he couldn't breathe.

Danny had to help him, but how could he? The ray from his ecto-gun or wrist ray wasn't a fully formed ghost; it would become inert the second it hit the foam-infused water, and the Fenton Thermos would have a majorly reduced range. The plasma staff didn't have enough reach, and if Danny jumped in with it, he didn't think he would have enough control or momentum underwater. He only had one option left if he wanted to save his dad.

"I'm going ghost!"

#dp #danny phantom #danny fenton #jack fenton #fic #things i wrote #phic phight 24 #phic phight #reveal fic #ghost oc #violence #Father-son bonding

[one-thousand-and-one-fandoms]

[Part 1]

Vlad tensed up with his hand up to knock. There was a ghost around his people. His hackles rose. How dared they?! Who dared?!

In a move that was instinct than choice, Vlad turned himself invisible and walked the perimeter. He couldn't find whoever or whatever it was that triggered his ghost sense, but he still felt uneasy.

He returned to the door, fixed his hair and knocked. Jazz opened the door with a smile and gave him a hug. From the basement came loud, indistinguishable sounds, but those were indication enough that Maddie and Jack were down there. Vlad looked around for his little badger, but didn't find him.

"Where's your brother?" Vlad asked. Jazz stiffened at the question and looked uncomfortable, and Vlad's uneaseness grew, "Jasmine, where is he?"

"He's in his bedroom," Jazz said and looked nervous, "he's not feeling well today."

Vlad raised an eyebrow and asked, "Is he sick? Does need to go to the doctor?"

Jazz huffed, exasperated, "I've been trying to convince him to go for days, but he won't listen! The only people he talks to now are Sam and Tucker ever since-"

Jazz stopped herself and looked at Vlad with wide eyes. Clearly, she didn't intend to say something that had slipped out.

"Since when, Jazz?" Vlad asked, concerned.

"Mom and dad said we didn't need to worry you," Jazz replied, instead.

"Let me decide if whatever happened is worth worrying about by myself," Vlad snapped, losing patience. Jazz seemed taken aback by it, but cowed enough to spill the beans.

"Danny had an accident down in the lab a few days ago," Jazz confessed. Vlad froze. Of course Danny would have an accident the week he couldn't be there. Worry gnawed at him.

"What kind of accident?" He asked.

"We don't know!"

"What do you mean you don't know?"

"No one was home when it happened. My parents finished their stupid portal but it didn't work. Or so we thought. When we came back it was working but Danny wouldn't come out of his room. It wasn't even him who told us something happened, but Sam," Jazz ranted and her worry was evident.

"And what did your parents do?"

"Nothing! Said he must be fine if he was able to walk up to his room! I tried to talk to him but he won't talk to me," Jazz replied and tears formed in the corner of her eyes. Vlad hugged her briefly, hoping to comfort her. He didn't know what was going on. The portal shouldn't be working at all, so he'd have to threaten Technus again, but that was after he found out what really happened to Danny. Vlad was hoping for a laceration that could be stitched up.

"I'll go see him. Maybe he'll talk to me."

Jazz huffed, but agreed, "Maybe."

Vlad walked up the stairs and stood in front of Danny's door. The hairs on his arm stood on end, and his ghost core flared up. Something was wrong, it screamed at him. He knocked. No answer.

"Little badger?" Vlad asked as he knocked again. This time he heard a rustling sound, but the door didn't open and Danny didn't call out. "Jazz told me what happened. I'm worried about you. Can I see you?"

"Uncle Vlad..." Danny's voice came from the other side, muffled, but Vlad was happy to get any verbal response, "go away."

"No can do, Little Badger. I want to make sure you're ok."

"I'm fine."

"You don't sound fine."

The door was yanked open, and Vlad had to stop himself from reacting outwardly. Danny was most definitely not fine. He had deep, purple bags under his eyes, which were bloodshot, and his hair was disheveled as if he hadn't bothered with it for days. And he probably hadn't. Not when he had more pressing matters to attend to; matters that now Vlad knew because his core resonated and told him that there was another ghost in front if him.

"See?" Danny said with a glare, "I'm fine. Now leave me alone."

Danny went to close the door but Vlad wasn't above using his extra strength to push through anyway. Danny yelped, clearly surprised. Vlad rounded on him, seeing red. His core didn't like a strange ghost near his people, but it didn't seem to realize that the ghost was one of his people, yet.

"Uncle Vlad?" Danny asked and he sounded scared. It echoed some long buried memory of waking up in the hospital, afraid and alone, forgotten and abandoned.

"What have they done?!" Vlad exploded, unable to help himself. Danny closed the door quickly, as if that could muffle Vlad's voice, or as if Jack and Maddie could hear all the way down to the lab and give a fucking damn.

"What are you talking about, Uncle Vlad?" Danny asked and Vlad couldn't decide if the boy was trying to play dumb or if he was genuinely confused.

"Don't lie to me, Daniel. What happened in the lab?" Vlad demanded, though he already had an idea.

Danny flinched. If Vlad was calling him Daniel it meant trouble.

"Nothing!"

"Don't lie to me," Vlad repeated.

"What makes you think it's their fault anyway?" Danny deflected.

Because it always is, Vlad thought, but said, "Because this wouldn't be the first time something like this has happened!"

"And what does 'this' mean, exactly?" Danny replied, crossing his arms and attempting a glare. But Vlad recognized the bait for information for what it was and felt a vein pulse on his forehead.

"That's not how it works, little badger. You want information? Then tell me the truth. All of it. And then I'll tell you what I know," Vlad said. Danny clammed up. Vlad noticed his fists clenching where they were crossed. Vlad pinched the bridge of his nose and forced himself to take a deep, long breath. Then another one. And another one. Until he felt he wouldn't blast Jack and Maddie Fenton to Mars if they knocked on the door right then.

Then he looked at Danny, who seemed to have realized that while Vlad was angry, furious really, it wasn't at him. Now, Danny just looked scared, and a bit lost.

"Danny, I want to help you," Vlad said, struggling to push his anger away to be dealt with later, "and I know you must be scared. However, I also know something happened to you, something that changed you, so lying is only wasting both of our times."

Danny met Vlad's eyes, only to turn away. The crossed arms in front of him turned from a shield to a hug to himself as Danny drew in on himself. For the first time, Vlad was seeing how Danny really felt and his heart went out to the teen.

"You're going to hate me," Danny said, and turned away from Vlad.

"Oh, little badger," Vlad said and took a step towards Danny with the intention of doing... something: a hug, a comforting pat on the shoulder, something, but Danny recoiled and flinched and Vlad stopped with his hand still hovering in the air, "I could never hate you."

"Your best friends are ghost hunters," Danny spat, and then paled, as if he had said something he shouldn't. If Vlad was someone else, perhaps, but as it was, Vlad thought he knew exactly what was wrong.

Vlad realized that demanding answers would get him nowhere with Danny. Neither would intimidation. Danny was scared and probably wanted to feel safe. If Vlad wanted Danny to trust him, Vlad had to show Danny that he could.

Vlad sat on Danny's bed and tried to make himself look as unthreatening as possible.

"Do you want to know why I stopped ghost hunting?" Vlad asked. The question took Danny by surprised and intrigued him.

"Why?"

"Twenty years ago your parents and I went to college together," Vlad answered, "we began working then on a prototype for the ghost portal your parents are so obsessed with today."

"Twenty years ago?" Danny asked, flabbergasted.

"Twenty years ago."

"But they didn't succeed."

"They kind of did," Vlad reluctantly admitted, "I want to clarify that I'm not saying this so you'll think bad of your parents Danny, but so that you understand. What happened then was an accident that could have and should have been prevented with the right safety measures, and it makes me furious that in the twenty years since they haven't improved in that regard."

Danny uncrossed his arms and sat down next to Vlad. Vlad could tell he was listening intently.

"There was an accident," Vlad continued, "and I received a lot of ectoplasm and radiation to my face. I spent the following months in the hospital, but I had... changed."

Danny kept his eyes on Vlad when he asked, "Changed how?"

"I became this," Vlad said and transformed into Plasmius in front of Danny. Immediately, Danny transformed into a ghost, too. Whether it was the resonance of their core or a voluntary transformation was unclear.

"You're a ghost, too?" Danny asked, his voice whispy and small.

"Half ghost," Vlad clarified, "what happened little badger?"

Danny's eyes teared up and he looked away, but he answered this time, "It was a dare."

"A dare?"

"The portal wasn't working. It was supposed to have failed! Sam dared me to go inside and I thought it would be okay because their inventions never work but..."

"But this time it did, didn't it?"

"It was so stupid! Who even puts the on switch on the inside of the machine?! I tripped over something and turned it on and then... and then..."

"Oh, Danny," Vlad said and brought Danny close. This time Danny allowed himself to be held as he began to cry and sob.

"It hurt, Uncle Vlad," Danny said, "it hurt so bad, but I couldn't tell my friends, or Jazz, or my parents. My friends already felt so guilty, and Jazz would only worry, and my parents... they would want to... to... I'm scared, Uncle Vlad."

"You are allowed to be scared, upset and angry. Just know that you don't have to do this alone, okay?"

Danny was quiet for a moment, sniffled, and then quietly said, "Okay."

"Can you change back, now?"

"I-I'll try..."

"Focus on your core, Danny, and will it to hide," Vlad said and tried to be encouraging.

"I don't know what that means."

"Close your eyes," Vlad said and Danny did so, "is there a part of you that feels hotter or colder than the rest of you?"

Danny's brow furrowed as he focused, and then he nodded.

"You're going to give it a little push, just enough so that it hides and lets you revert back to human," Vlad continued.

Danny's face scrunched up, and soon the familiar rings of light washed over Danny and he was human again. Danny opened his eyes in awe.

"I did it!"

"You did," Vlad agreed, feeling pride welling up in his core, "for the record, I am sorry this happened to you, Danny. This is in no way your fault, and I'll help you through this."

"Can I go live with you?" Danny blurted out.

"I wish you could, but I believe that would arouse more suspicions than we want at the moment."

"But my parents..."

"They won't touch you, okay? I promise you that I'll do everything in my power to keep you safe," Vlad interrupted.

"But you aren't here half the time... you were gone one week and now look at me!"

"I know, and I'm sorry Danny. I'll try to come by more often, but even if I'm not here, I'll make sure you have the means to get away if you feel in danger, okay? I'll also give you a key to my house, so you know you always have a safe place to land on," Vlad insisted.

"Okay."

"Okay?"

"Okay."

"Good. How about we go out for dinner, then? I think we deserve it," Vlad said with a grin.

"Burgers?" Danny asked in return with small smile of his own.

"Deal."

@akikoyuii @aikoiya

#danny phantom #danny fenton #jazz fenton #more like morally grey vlad plasmius because his bussinesses are still shade af but he doesn't try to murder teenagers now #vlad masters #not!evil vlad plasmius #cool uncle vlad #neglectful maddie and jack #maddie fenton #jack fenton #phandom #part 2 #fanfiction #phanfiction

[half-deadmagicperson]

Angstfest Day 2:

Title: I'll be in Denial

AO3

Rating: Teen

Words: 748

Summary: Danny is loosing his grip on humanity

Warnings: mild blood and tooth loss

Also not all of this fits as 'Nobody Knows AU', but most of it is.

    SMASH.

    Another case of beakers shattered. Danny sighed as he walked over to get the lab broom. It's been a few days since he died, and he's already having issues. He randomly goes intangibile. Sometimes he'll find himself sinking through the floor or having stuff drop through his hands, like a case of lab beakers for example. 

    Two weeks later, and it only got worse. He almost got exposed when his eyes started glowing after Dash had shoved him into a locker. Thankfully he noticed and calmed down before Sam or Tucker saw. He wanted to tell them, but he thought against it. They didn't need the weight of their friend's death on their conscience.

    One month later, it was getting harder to hide. His ghostliness leaked out at any given chance. It was harder to walk without floating. His eyes glow in the dark like a dog's. He woke up one day to blood on his pillow and a pile of teeth. His regular human teeth were replaced with unnaturally sharp fangs. 

    So he did what any person would do and tried to ignore his problems. He put on make-up and filed his teeth. Looking in the mirror, he tried everything to look human, to be in control.

    It wasn't enough.

    He threw on sweatshirts to cover how cold he was. Hair dye was used by the boxes to cover the strands of white that were leaking through. Sam and Tucker had asked him if he was okay when the changes first started happening, but now they don't pay him much mind.

     His aura causes people to pass him by. Their minds are too horrified to look. His parents, even his sister, don't notice his coming and going. Hell, they might not even remember he exists. 

    Danny packed his bags. He looked over at the pictures of before. Sam and Tucker are smiling with him at Nasty Burger. Jazz is teaching him how to bake a pie. His dad is teaching him how to fish. He sighs. His old life is dead.

    Soundless steps walk down the stairs. Make-up and dye have been long since forgotten. They don't notice him anyways. Danny places five pieces of paper on the coffee table, each adorned with the names of loved ones.

     Tired legs lead him to the kitchen. Jazz is sitting with Mom talking about her AP class. Danny smiles solemnly. He watches as Jack bursts through the door and shows them his newest invention. They looked happy. Danny sighed and turned towards the lab door. He could only hope to have happiness like that again.

     Green light greeted him from the other end of the lab. The portal's imposing structure dared him to go in. He grabbed his backpack and breathed a heavy sigh. He can't remain on Earth any longer. He needs to gain control. He needs to move on. The young boy took a weightless step into the abyss.

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   Maddie Fenton was cleaning the house when she noticed something on the coffee table. There were five notes each adorned with five different names. Maddie picked up the folded paper that read 'Mom'. Gently, she peeled the edges of the page and opened it to read.

   "Dear Mom,

   If you're reading this, I am dead. I've actually been dead for a while now, but I didn't want to accept it. It's been hard, not gonna lie. At first it was just little things like dropping beakers, but now -some scribbles- now I can't. I haven't been able to control it. It's been so hard, Mom. I've tried to pretend that I was still human, same old Danny, but I'm not. I've been so lonely, Mom. Seeing you, Dad and Jazz enjoying life while I was stuck watching. It's been hard. All this to say I've decided to move on with my life, or I guess afterlife. And maybe one day I'll be able to see you again, and maybe you'll be able to see me. Don't be sad for me, Mom, I'm trying my best. I'll come back when I'm in control!

-Danny"

    Maddie sobbed. Danny, her little boy, was dead! She didn't even notice. She ran up to his room. He's just messing with her, Right? She opened the door to find the bed was made and unoccupied. The woman flung herself onto the sheets.

  "Oh Danny, my precious boy," her voice croaked into his blankets.

   Maddie spent her night grieving the loss of her child.

#tw mild blood #tw tooth #danny phantom #dp #dp angst fest #angstfest2023 #nobody knows au

[pocketramblr]

5 ask game: Danny Phantom au where, as someone who is both alive and dead, Danny is now a vampire vs a human-ghost hybrid

1- the portal flashes and Danny collapses, pale as a corpse. Sam and Tucker try to get him upstairs to rest on the couch, and panic when they can't feel a pulse. Jazz hears and enters and is concerned, but tells them they are checking wrong anyway and does so herself. She can't get a pulse from his wrist, or his neck, but she can feel his breathing, so she opens his mouth to see if he's choking on something. That's when he wakes up and bites her.

2- Jazz yells at him for biting her finger, Danny yells at her for jamming her finger in his mouth, and gets up to rinse and spit the blood out. Since he's fine now, Jazz leaves to go back to her homework, and Sam and Tucker stick close to see what's going on. Danny doesn't come out of the bathroom for a while, and doesn't answer when they call, so Tucker goes in to make sure he didn't fall, and Sam follows when the other boy just stops and gapes. Danny is staring at the mirror, and Sam goes "huh your teeth look... Really sharp. Cool." And Tucker goes "yeah his reflection is also missing, what the heck"

3- they move to Danny's room quickly and promise to keep it a secret. Sam thinks it's cool as hell, until Tucker asks if he's going to bed to drink blood, and Sam has to consider how to make it vegetarian. Tucker thinks rare steaks and the like would work, Sam says it would be better to just drink a little from willing humans, without killing like eating animals. Danny is only half listening to this conversation because he is realizing he can walk on walls and ceilings, in lizard fashion you know.

4- Vlad is also a vampire who has figured out way more powers than Danny. (Who has a bat form, but doesn't know about wolves or fog form initially) He wants to bite and transform Maddie, and get Danny to bite Jazz, so they can be a little vampire family together. Without Jack. This obviously does not work, and a running theme ends up becoming that Danny figures out new parts of his vampire powers slowly each time he has to fight Vlad

5- Jazz figures out Danny's secret without being told, so when he asks how she knew she's like "bro. You don't have a reflection and suddenly I didn't have to tell you put on sunscreen. I figured it out." ("Mom and Dad haven't figured it out." "Yeah they're ghost experts, not vampire experts.") Wes is the only other person at their school who figures it out, but he assumes that Sam is a vampire who bit Danny to make him one recently.

#pocket talks to people #anon #ask game

[aikoiya]

DP AU - PT AU - Teen Rivals

AU where Vlad is the same age as Danny & Dina. Instead of Vlad going to college with Jack & Maddie, his father, Manfred Masters, did. Manfred didn't get into an accident, instead stealing the Fenton's work. It earns him both their enmity.

Let me just say something; Manfred has severe NPD, meaning Vlad has it in him to become NPD too. Physically, Manfred is the mirror image of canon Vlad if his hair never turned grey & he had a mustache. He's also just like Vlad in how he interacts with others, but worse. So much worse.

He's a conniving, manipulative slimeball. He's power hungry & a sleaze. He's not necessarily crazy, but he is unhinged & simply a rotten person. Admittedly, this is also a result of his own childhood trauma. However, instead of growing to crave closeness like canon Vlad did, Manfred gave up on such things, even beginning to scorn it. He feels that since he never got a good childhood, no one else should be happy either & is much like Spectra in many ways. Unlike Vlad, who craves the love & affection of others but goes about getting it the wrong way, Manfred cares nothing for relationships & views people as tools to be used to his own ends whether via honeyed words from a silver tongue or outright blackmail. He doesn't seek love in any manner, not even truly believing in it due to his own experiences in life & finding those who do to be weak-minded & overly sentimental.

Despite Vlad growing to become an engineering prodigy with a real interest in ectology, it never seemed to be enough for his father, who always demanded more & better.

Again, Manfred is much like canon Vlad, but if he were competent as a villain & patient. He's got a bit of David Xanatos in him if Xanatos was an absolute trash person.

Manfred, being old money, used his power & influence to have his own portal built. Much like the Fentons, his didn't work at first, so a 10 year old Vlad, hoping to gain his father's love, tried to fix it. Much like with the proto-portal, it infects him with ecto-herpies &, after 4 years, this results in him becoming a halfa. Though, this time around, there was no cola contaminant. The transition was painful & slow & he spent those years in the hospital with only his mother coming to visit him. A year into his hospitalization, the ecto-herpies reached his heart & it gave out. When they used the defibrillators on him, he was revived & his transition to halfa began. (Half-a ghost, half-a Lugat. He became a Lugat because his desire for someone who would love & understand him was such that it brought him back to life.) It was only after he'd been revived that his father's portal sputtered to life.

Now, Vlad doesn't come out of it looking like canon Plasmius. His hair isn't in horns (he actually gels his hair to look like that later in the au until Dina confesses that it looks dumb), his skin is flesh-colored, if paler than in human form, & his eyes are the same, but with glowing magenta irises. His ears won't become pointed, nor will he gain claws until he reaches Halfa Puberty. Vlad's canon appearance is due to a severe decline in mental stability & loss of morals. He does have retractable fangs though, but that's because he's half-lugat.

He looks a bit like this:

Not my art.

At the same time, I think he'd wear a little hooded capelet. Like this:

But white.

I've seen a picture of teen Vlad wearing one before, but haven't been able to find it again yet.

This Vlad is just a kid, but not even a bad kid, though snobbish, a brat, can be petty, & even a bit of a bully in school at times. A little like Draco Malfoy in a way. However, it's because of his father's mistreatment of him.

Anyway, his father came in when Vlad first transformed. The man now manipulates his son to his own ends much the same way that canon Vlad manipulated Ellie. With honeyed words, hollow praise, & conditionary affection.

The reunion was Manfred's attempt to shove it in the Fentons' faces that he opened a portal first only to find out that they also figured it out. Without his money or resources.

That was the first time that Vlad met the twins. Vlad learns that the twins are like him & doesn't tell his father. Manfred eventually begins to get an inkling that the Fenton twins were also the Phantom twins, but initially dismisses it. Though, the coincidences begin to stack up over time.

Vlad initially appears to be a cocky, arrogant little imp, but eventually turns out to be suffering from neglect, subconscious insecurity, emotional abuse, & manipulation by his father. Before this, if his father wasn't being dismissive, insulting him, or demanding perfection from him, he simply didn't have anything to do with Vlad. Now, his father actually payed attention to him & spoke (somewhat) kindly to him, but it was in an effort to manipulate him. Despite being aware of this, Vlad's deep-seated desire for his father's approval tends to make him crave even that small amount of semi-positive attention from the man & it puts him on the opposite side of the twins.

On the other hand, Vlad's mother, Katerina Romanov-Masters, is the exact opposite. She was the sister to the now dead Dairy King, coming from a generations-long Wisconsin dairy fortune. She is a skilled dairy maid & has a way with cows.

Her hair is chestnut brown, her eyes hazel, & she has a slight tan from working outside with the cows.

Katerina is very sweet & loving, demure, maternal to a fault, emulating a picture perfect housewife & is not even remotely ashamed of it. She adores her son & dotes on him. She is proud of her femininity in a way that not many other women are these days.

She is Catholic & very devoted while Manfred is only Catholic by inheritance, truly being an aethiest & nihilistic, scorning religion of any kind, believing such people who believe in any higher power to be delusional & that Jung's study of religion's effect on psychology to have been a scam. As such, Vlad is very torn theologically.

Katerina's marriage to Manfred was an arranged one. She had hoped that they could learn to love each other, & in some ways, she did love the man, but he neglected, dismissed, & emotionally abused her as well. He wasn't normally physically abusive, but when he was in an especially bad mood & she did something wrong in his eyes, he would hurt her. If it were just her he mistreated, she'd simply endure it, but she did not abide by how he treated her son. Whenever she could, she would try to deflect Manfred's attention from their son, but she wasn't always there to prevent it.

She loves being a mother & it is quite obvious that she was born for the role. More than anything, she wished for a whole hoard of children of her own, but she miscarried her second child & it caused complications that left her all but barren. She developed depression as a result & ever since, she had a tendency to drink her sorrows away at her lowest points.

She loves to bake with Vlad & he loves it back. Katerina was the one who taught him to play the piano. He's the light of her life & she wants him to grow up happy & healthy & to find the loving family that he couldn't with her & his father.

While she was never told by Vlad of his condition, she figures it out on her own & while she had a bit of a mental breakdown at the fact that her son had died & been brought back to life as a half-ghost being, she loves him nonetheless. He was still her little boy.

As is probably obvious, Vlad develops a crush on Dina, but honestly doesn't know what to do about it. He's never really been genuine or shown vulnerability to anyone but his mother, so the idea of doing so with someone else, even a girl he likes, is daunting to him & causes anxiety.

Despite this, he's actually super jealous of the twins. They are like him, but their parents obviously love both them & each other, their mother is happy & adores their father, they have a sister that frets over them, & friends that support them. He wants that. More than anything.

Even still, Dina steadily becomes his first & only real friend.

Part of Vlad's struggle will be in watching his ghost half become more & more ghostly as he does more terrible things for his father. Even beginning to enjoy it to a degree, then feeling guilty for it.

At some point, his skin begins to take on a teal tinge, the tips of his fingers & toes blacken as if burned or frostbitten, it crawls up his fingers the less he cares about right & wrong. Finally, his irises turn burgundy, like wine, before sometimes briefly changing to blood red when he does something particularly wretched for his own benefit & without his father's input. Typically, he feels pretty rotten afterwards which returns them to burgundy. If it ever gets to the point where he no longer cares, does it anyway, & doesn't feel bad about it afterwards, his eyes will remain red. If he ever loses control of his Obsession or loses his mind, the red will consume his eyes entirely like in canon.

When Halfa Puberty hits, it gets even worse with his claws coming in, his tongue reshaping into that of a snake's (making it difficult to speak & he has a bit of a lisp in ghost form for a while), his ears stretching into points (making him more sensitive to sound by enhancing his hearing), & his pupils slit (enhancing his vision, but also forcing him to adjust to bright lights).

He also struggles with feeding his vampiric cravings, both for human blood & core-plasm. It scares him & he worries that he's become a monster.

Manfred builds spybots to, ya know... spy on the Fentons. After the events of the first Freakshow encounter, which he saw through the bots, he is able to recover a shard of red obsidian from the broken staff & has it fastened to a gothic, black steel ring with a bat design. He keeps it on him in case his son ever gets out of line.

It has a much more limited use than the staff did. Only able to control one ghost at a time & via his experimentations, he learns that it's best used subtly.

If he tried to take full control of a ghost all at once, they'd notice & if their will/sense of self-identity was strong enough, they'd be able to break free of it. As such, it was best used slowly over time & little by little, starting with small & simple commands.

He wishes that he had managed to recover a larger piece so that he could try & take control of those meddlesome twins, but alas.

---

While this Vlad has as much potential to become bi as all my other interpretations of him, it's unlikely that he will ever experience a man in any capacity whether romantic or sexual as he'll have found his match early in life. See, no matter what, I see him as heteroromantic even when he is bisexual.

For one, he's only 14 & only knows that he's 'supposed' to be attracted to girls, which he is. In this way, he hasn't even registered guys as a possibility. See the only reason any of my other Vlads had begun to percieve men in a sexual light was due to workplace corruption where his superiors had him service them for promotions.

Once he does get into business, he'll already be in a steady, married relationship with Dina & he'd be appalled at the very idea of so much as touching anyone else in such a manner.

See, Vlad is extremely monogamous in nature & he gets very invested in any relationship he persues. So, he'd never do anything to jeopardize what he has with Dina.

Even if he did develop an awareness of men in such a capacity, it wouldn't matter because he'd never want to persue them. It'd simply be in the way that one admires someone who is attractive. An acknowledgement that they are physically appealing, but no more.

---

By Kindred Spirits, Manfred knows about the twins being halfas & though Vlad swears that he didn't know, Manny is suspicious. Being a scientist himself, though one that has a tendency to take credit for other people's work, he knows just enough to copy Lex Luthor's work with Superboy & make the technology compatible with ectoplasm. (I'm thinking of making him a member of either The Light or the Illuminati, albeit a low-level member. Either way, it's through a twisted sense of thinking himself superior to others & the belief that the masses can't be trusted to think for themselves. He's a huge effing fascist.)

It isn't until Ellie that Manny figures that going about things at least somewhat naturally would make for the greatest success. So, he uses the pod to mix Dina's DNA with Vlad's. This makes her 100% stable.

However, Manfred does not name any of the clones. Instead, he numbers them; VD-001 through VD-004.

Instead of treating them like his children, he vivisects them each to try & learn what makes them tick. He figures that he can't experiment on either Vlad or the twins as that'd draw too much attention.

However, there's no reason to look for someone that doesn't exist.

Vlad is completely unaware of all this until, one night, he finds the cloning room & sees VD-003 & VD-004, Ellie, being made in the pod. At first, he thinks, or at least hopes, that his father is making him siblings because his mother had wanted more children for a long, long time.

All during their incubation, Vlad would come in every night to talk to their sleeping forms. He never really pays any mind to the many jars full of body parts & organs around the room.

Then, one night, he walks in to find VD-003 gone & even more jars than normal. He realizes what's happening & looses his shit. Vlad falls on the floor & begins to hyperventilate until he processes what's happened & when he does, he realizes that he can't be the one to save Eleanor, which was what he'd been calling VD-004. Panicking, he makes a decision & for the first time in his life, he does something to directly sabotage his father; he leaves his home to go to Amity Park & beg the twins to save her.

At first, Danny doesn't believe anyone could be quite so disgusting & is very suspicious of Vlad, but Dina knows that he would never make something like this up.

They fly there & the twins save a 3 year old looking VD-004 who is very confused by everything & doesn't even know how to speak yet. When asked what her name was, Vlad replied Eleanor.

Now, by this point, Ultimate Enemy has happened & the rest of the Fentons know about the twins being halfas. So, when the twins told them what happened, they immediately welcome her into their family.

I'll expand on this later.

Phantom Twins AU Masterlist

#danny phantom #dp #danny fenton #fem!danny phantom #fem!danny fenton #vlad masters #vlad plasmius #phantom twins au #teen rivals au #endangered species #pompous pep #diana 'dina' fenton #diana 'dina' phantom #writing prompt

[galactic-aesir]

Thinking about ghosts attacking the town or something and Maddie looking at Danny holding an ectogun, fighting with them but with none of their cheery enthusiasm for ghost hunting and instead with tired eyes and grim determination, and seeing a child soldier she help make in the place of her son.

Just idk something about Maddie and Jack’s naive and irresponsible gung ho violence vs Danny’s reluctant grit and not seeing the cost of innocence before it’s too late. You wanted your kids to follow in the family business didn’t you? Are you happy now?

#Danny phantom #Danny (fanon) would be an excellent shot #since he’s used to dogfight style air maneuvers and ecto beams #even if he was depowered #someone posted about the Fenton parents acting like ghost hunting was a game #and I can’t stop thinking about it #and how it /isn’t/ for Danny #who’s stuck facing the consequences #and technically the whole town too #since Jack and maddie would have opened the portal anyway #without a half dead ghost boy to help out #what would have happened then #how many people would have gotten hurt? #Anyways back to bed now zzzzzzzzzzzz #my ramblings

[obsidiancreates]

No Pain No Gain (Of Harrowing Experiences And Knowledge)

(4:30 am. Work in morning. Wrote this anyway. TW for convulsions, seizure-like symptoms, mentions of extreme pain, and parents not believing their kids when they most absolutely should.)

Danny groans, resting his head in his hand. "My head is killing me," he complains.

Jazz taps his plate with her fork. "Eat, it'll help!"

"Thanks, Mini-Mom." Danny shakes his head. "My stomach feels all tight, I can't get anything down."

Maddie pokes her head into the kitchen. "Danny, sweetie? Are you sick?"

"I dunno."

She walks over, and puts a hand on his forehead. Danny's breath hitches as a stab of pain goes into his head! He shuts his eyes, tearing his head away. "Ah, no, no touching!"

"Well, that's odd."

"Maybe he's allergic to that pollen on your hands."

Danny can't peel his eyes open quite yet. Pollen? Since when does his Mom garden.

"Oh, that can't be it, sweetie. Well, he'll just have to stay home today, he's pale as a sheet."

"Or a ghost," Jazz mumbles under her breath. Danny would glare at her little hint-joke, if it weren't for the fact that the lack of light coming through his eyelids was helping with his headache.

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Sam and Tucker knock on the door. Jack opens it up, grinning. "Hiya, kids!"

"Hi, Mr. Fenton. We're here with Danny's homework." Tucker holds up the very stuffed backpack.

"All eight missed days of it," Sam says, arms crossed. "Has he been to the hospital yet?"

"We can take care of him just fine," Jack assures. "Come on in, he's resting in bed!"

Very chipper, for someone who's son has been bedridden for over a week now.

They head up and slowly open the door. "Danny?" Sam calls softly.

They get a groan from his bed. They walk over, finding Danny curled up in fetal position under his covers.

They sit on his bed. "How're you feeling?" Sam asks, rubbing his back. He seems to relax a little at that.

"Like I would rather get caught in the Portal again," he grumbles. "Everything hurts."

"Well, I brought you a Nasty Burger Meal." Tucker pulls it out. "And Sam and I left one or two assignments at school by 'accident'. They can't blame you for those ones missing!"

"Thanks, guys."

They hang out for a little while longer (Danny doesn't want the burger, so Tucker eats it and Sam gets the fries). But Danny isn't in a very social mood, so they head downstairs.

"Hey guys," Jazz says without looking up from her studies, waving at Danny's friends.

"Hey Jazz," they say in unison.

"Hi, kids!" Maddie walks in, dusting her hands off. "Come over to visit Danny?"

"We just left his room," Tucker says.

"Good, he needs the pick-me-up. I don't know what has him so under the weather."

"I'm telling you, it's that pollen," Jazz says, shaking her head.

"Pollen? What kind?" Sam can't remember Danny ever having an allergic reaction in her greenhouse.

Maddie grins. "Jack, sweetie, grab a sample! You kids will love this."

Jack comes up the stairs, covering something in his hand.

"We won an auction for some old ghost-hunting books, Maddie says, "And found something amazing! This-"

Jack opens his hands. Sam and Tucker feel the blood drain out of their faces.

"-is a Blood Blossom!"

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Danny hugs himself, random parts of him twitching and jerking. Again. This is getting unbearable.

He looks at his mirror, taking in his paled skin and deep eye bags. He grits his teeth as another headache hits him.

Maybe this is... more, than a Human Sickness.

... Maybe he should go see Frostbite.

He chokes back a cry of pain as his Core pulses with discomfort.

Yeah. Frostbite it is.

He slides out of bed and turns intangible, laying down as he drifts down into the lab.

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"You have to get rid of those!"

"No, don't worry, they're not as scary as the name implies," Maddie assures. "They only hurt ghosts!"

"Hurt 'em real good, according to the book," Jack says proudly. "And there was a pouch of seeds inside of it!"

"And we developed a growing method that allowed them to fully mature in just a few hours." Maddie looks lovingly at the flower. "A beautiful way to ghost-proof a home."

"They're toxic!" Sam exclaims.

"To ghosts," Maddie repeats.

"Which Dan-! Uh, I mean, which damages, we don't... know... the extent of!" Tucker says slowly. "... Yeah, how do we know there's no, uh, long-lasting effects on humans?!"

"We've been testing them, don't worry. They're perfectly harmle-"

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Everyone freezes.

And then all at once, they rush down to the lab!

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Danny is six feet underground before he realizes he overshot the basement.

With effort, he rises back up. Turning tangible again once he's actually above ground and not inside of it, he lays on the floor for a second longer.

His head is pounding, and his vision has gone blurry. He can just barely make out vague shapes and colors... he needs to get to Frostbite fast.

So where's the portal?

He crawls along the floor over to a desk, and hoists himself up Leaning heavily, he tries to focus his eyes.

Okay... it's closed right now, so no glow to guide him. Maybe he can pick something familiar, and find his way from there.

He starts slowly making his way through the room, trying to pinpoint landmarks.

And then steps on a discarded invention, slipping.

He tumbles into a patch of something red-

Agony.

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Sam and Tucker are the first ones down, and it's just as bad as they'd feared.

Danny is laying in a small patch of growing Blood Blossoms, screaming his lungs out. A red glow completely surrounds him as he convulses and twists, jerking and curling, completely poisoned.

They rush to drag him out of the flowers, The Fentons getting down right as they lift Danny up.

"What on earth?!" Maddie runs over. "What's happening, how did he get here when he was just in his room-"

Danny screams again, the sound raw and painful. He curls up tightly, but then his body jerks. His eyes are shut tight, tears pouring out.

"Danny? Danny, speak to us!" Jack kneels next to him. "Danny, what's wrong?"

"Those things are what's wrong!" Sam and Tucker are rifling through the inventions scattered around the room. "Your stupid flowers!"

"And I can't eat this many 'of them at once, so you better hope we find a flamethrower!"

"Jazz, sweetie, talk Danny's friends down while Mommy and Daddy help-"

"I think there's a flamethrower in this closet!" Jazz rushes over, ignoring her parents. "But we need something to power it, it's kind of old!"

"Jazz, no! You can't burn those, they're going to be incredibly useful against gho-"

Danny's hand grips her jumpsuit, and Maddie looks down as Danny lets out a sob, coughing up blood.

"LOOK AT WHAT THEY'RE DOING TO HIM!" Sam throws a piece of junk at Maddie, barely missing her head.

"But they don't harm humans!" Jack insists, grabbing the first-aid kit. "Maddie, how's his pulse?"

"... Slow, Jack it-it's slow and-and faint-"

Jack pales, pulling out a penlight. "Okay, okay, we can solve this, Maddie open his eye-"

She gets Danny's eye open before Jack finishes his sentence, and they both get the wind knocked out of them by the sight.

Danny's eyes are glowing bright green, unfocused and glassy and decidedly inhuman.

"He's possessed," Jack spits, standing up. "That's why it's hurting him!"

"NO YOU IDIOTS." If tones could kill, Sam would have knocked them dead right then and there. "OH MY GOD, YOU'RE OBLIVIOUS!"

"MOM, DAD, LET US HANDLE THIS!" Jazz snaps. "Okay, okay, I found the battery!"

"Got the flamethrower!" Tucker holds it up, and Jazz puts in the battery. "Powering up?! You've got to be kidding me!"

"Danny!" Jack is shaking his son. "Danny, come on, look at us! You-you're not being hurt by these, what happened? Danny, tell us!"

Another bloodcurdling shriek of pain. Something sparks at Danny's midsection, only for a second. His eyes roll back, and he goes limp before seemingly getting shocked again.

"Get a blood sample," Maddie says, and her husband goes fumbling for the equipment. "It must be some kind of ecto-contamination, maybe-"

"HA!" Tucker aims the flamethrower. "The only good veggies are ones barbecued to ashes!"

"NO!" Maddie grabs something, she's not sure what, off a counter and throws it. It hits the flamethrower, knocking it out of Tucker's hands!

Danny jerks, and then stiffens, and then twitches in Maddie's lap. He lets out another scream, and another spark by his midsection, and she must be imagining it but his hair looks white and why are his eyes glowing green-

Jazz grabs the flamethrower. "MOM, WE'RE TRYING TO SAVE HIM!" She aims it. "WE KNOW BETTER RIGHT NOW!"

"We just have to-"

"BURN THEM!" Sam screams.

Jazz lets loose, yelling in rage as she burns all the flowers to ashes, and then burns them some more!

But Danny is still convulsing, the red aura still there! Jack draws blood, quickly, and starts trying to find anomalies that could explain this.

"We burned them all!" Sam looks around frantically. "Where could-"

Her eyes fall on Jack's shirt pocket, the Blossom he'd shown them peeking out.

Maddie points at her. "Don't you dare! You've already ruined what could have been a wealth of innovations in ghost hunting and containment-"

"DANNY IS DYING!"

"THEY ONLY HARM GHOSTS!"

"LOOK AT HIM!!!"

Maddie looks down at her baby boy, her sobbing, screaming baby boy, as he twitches and flails and wails and-

... And glows. His eyes, his slowly-whitening hair, the sparking at his midsection that seems to be slowly changing into something else, a jumpsuit, a-a familiar jumpsuit-

"He's a human boy!"

"HE'S DYING!" Sam looks ready to throw herself at Jack and take that flower by force.

But Jazz snatches up a Fenton Extendo-Grabber, and snatches the flower away before Sam can do anything! Jack tries to grab it, but gets shocked when Jazz pushes a button!

"Jasmine!"

"Not now, Mom!"

She puts the flower on the floor, and burns it.

And finally... Danny stops screaming. he goes limp in Maddie's arms, breathing shallowly. His clothes start returning to normal. His hair starts darkening again.

His eyes dim, back to baby blue. And then flutter shut.

"... What just happened?" Maddie asks softly, brushing Danny's hair out of his face. She feels his pulse again. Still slow. Still faint.

Jazz crosses her arms. "It's not for us to tell you."

"Jasmine Fenton, you will explain right now-"

"Maddie."

She looks up, Jack's strained voice capturing her attention.

"Maddie..." He looks up from examining the blood. Danny's blood. "I... think she's right. We need to talk to Danny about this."

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Danny groans, slowly coming out of unconsciousness. He tries to move, but his body refuses. Even his eyelids won't open.

"Danny?" His mom's voice. He manages to make a sound in response.

"Are you awake, son?"

Another affirmative noise. His throat hurts. What happened to him? Even the Ghostly Wail doesn't take this much out of him...

"... Danny, sweetie... we... we're sorry."

... What? Danny's even more confused now. He thinks his eyebrow twitches to show it, which gives him some hope for being able to open his eyes soon.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Jack asks.

Danny's heart twists, and his Core pulses with panic.

"You know why." Sam's voice cuts through the moment, sharp and angry.

"We're his parents! He-he should have known-"

"I thought you would kill him!" Jazz, this time.

"Jasmine!"

"You aren't exactly open-minded about ghosts." Tucker. Oh, yay. A whole crowd. This isn't a nightmare at all.

"Danny." He feels his mom grab ahold of his hand. "When you... feel better, we're going to have a long talk about this. And then I promise, your father and I will work endlessly to find a way to cure you and rip the ghost ou-"

Danny's Core flares, and he hears his mom gasp. Her hand jerks away, and Danny feels a chill in his arm.

"He has ice powers?" His dad sounds closer now. Trying to help his Mom? That was an instinctual power use. He hopes it hadn't been too harsh.

"I don't think he needs a cure." He can picture Sam's arms-crossed, goth-death-stare, leaning sassily to the side demeanor with ease. It makes his lips twitch with the hunt of a smile.

"He clearly does," Maddie snaps back. "Look at what this mutation made him do to me!"

"You threatened him!"

"I threatened the ghostly energy infecting his body!"

Danny lets out a shuddering breath. Stop fighting

Oh. That's a new power. The whisper comes from him, but not his mouth. It just... drifts from his aura, unspoken yet heard clearly.

He's pretty sure everyone else stopped moving. He tries it again.

I don't want to be 'cured'. Another creepy whisper-like sound, but it's getting the message across, he thinks. I like my powers.

"But they're making you... making you..." Maddie chokes on a sob.

I'm half-ghost. It feels almost anticlimactic to admit, and yet like it was the most life-changing sentence he'd ever said. Or, kind of said.

I help people with my powers.

"You're fourteen. You still have your baby fat." Maddie sniffles. "You can't be a ghost."

Half ghost. Halfa. ... Why can't I move?

"... You... had an accident in the lab." Suddenly his mom sounds guarded.

"They were growing Blood Blossoms," Sam growls.

Blood Blossoms? ... That's why I've been sick... but they're gone now?

"Burned them," Tucker confirms. "Jazz made sure there was nothing left."

His mom... huffs. ... Disappointed.

Mom?

"Yes, sweetie?"

... How long did it take for you to burn them?

...

...

...

Mom?

"They were valuable, sweetie, and-and we never thought- it shouldn't be possible, we didn't think it was really hurting you-"

Please leave me alone

"Danny-"

Leave me alone

Not a whisper. The room shakes a little with the words.

...

...

...

Anyone still here?

"Just us." Sam says.

"I locked the door," Jazz informs him.

"And I hacked their computers. Now when they try to send important emails it'll just send a video of a goat wearing a hat."

Danny laughs. Kind of. It's a reverb in the air, the vibrations of laughter without the sound of it.

"We're gonna bring you to my house for a while," Sam says. "My parents went on a month-long vacation of some kind, and Grandma never goes into the guest rooms."

... How bad was it?

"... Bad."

... And now they know.

Silence.

... Now they know. And they... clearly aren't happy about it.

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Maddie paces the lab, Jack sitting slumped at one of the desks.

"He's a human," Maddie says again. "A pulse! A heartbeat! He-he needs to eat, he bleeds blood!"

"Ectoplasmic blood." Jack rolls the vial of Danny's blood in his hands. "Half boy, half ghost... and he thought we'd see the ghost half more than we'd see him..."

"Because it's taking over him. His hair turned white, Jack! His-his eyes! They were..."

Maddie looks at the pile of ashes, and sets her jaw. "We need to find more Blood Blossoms."

Jack looks up, jaw dropped. "Are you mad, Mads?!"

"We can use them to fix him!" She gestures at the pile. "If we could do it right, we could kill off the ghostly infection while letting Danny fully recover!"

"That's a stretch-"

"Jack." She grabs ahold of his shoulders. "Our son, if half ghost. Our baby boy is filled with ectoplasm and who knows what sorts of ghostly instincts and mind alterations! He cold-shocked me!"

Jack looks at her hand, still red from the bite of the freeze. "... If we get it wrong, it could kill him."

"We won't get it wrong. We're his parents, Jack. When he's sick, we help him get better. No matter how much he hates the medicine."

#Danny Phantom #Danny Fenton #Jack Fenton #Maddie Fenton #Jazz Fenton #Sam Manson #Tucker Foley #angst #seizure tw #seizure warning #poisoning warning #tw abuse #abuse tw #kind of #They don't mean to be abusive but they are. Like in canon. #fanfic #my attempts at fanfic

[currentlylurking]

I watched butch’s new video so you don’t have to

This is Flynn Fenton, not Johnny Test or micro Wes, contrary to popular belief. He’s eight years older than Danny. Does that work with the timeline? no! do we care? also no!

when this very canon boy was 10, his parents... completed a ghost portal. Their second one ever until Bench Fartman retcons another one in. One night he went down to look at it. It was already on. he thought ‘oh, that’s cool’ and decided not to go into the lab accident waiting to happen.

Unfortunately spider mom had other plans.

I know I said I wanted information on the ancients but not like this... never like this...

this is Misery Vex, and from her hot garbage design, you can draw two conclusions: bench likes marvel way more than any human should, and she’s related to another character with a hot garbage design: pariah dark. and you would be right. both their designs are garbage.

(misery vex is our canon ancient, and while I love and support her, I’m scrapping all her design. she’s a spider centaur now. No I do not take constructive criticism.)

Anyway, spider mama here has been trying to patch the ghost zone back together ever since she gave pariah the boot. Unfortunately, much like her design, the ghost zone is a hot mess. then one day, while trying to get herself a foothold in the world, she sees a portal open up and on the other side is a small boy, Pure, untouched.

So she steals him and makes him into a warrior.

yoink.

Maddie and Jack go downstairs the next morning, review security footage, and realize they have tremendously fucked up. Their portal is off and broken now, so they never mention their eldest son again. Unfortunately, they do not learn from this accident, as literally everything with Danny shows.

Twelve years later, Jazz has a dream: she’s vibing in the ghost zone, and suddenly she sees a familiar face.

The next morning at breakfast she straight up, with no build up, asks her parents if she had an older brother. because that’s how people interact with each other when dealing with delicate subjects and potentially dead siblings! totally!

(also the boy was 10 and there’s no pictures of him?? or anything?? I mean grief is weird but okay bench)

Jazz decides to take her little brother on a ghost zone adventure to find their older brother! who is now, uh, after 12 years... Off His Shit(tm)

This is Exodus. Bench said he fights with chains and is like the ghost zone attorney general. I don’t think bench knows what an attorney general is. anyway, he works for spider mama, bringing order to the ghost zone and almost killing his little brother. Don’t ask how he’s still human after 12 years in the ghost zone. remember kids, ghosts aren’t dead people!

Danny breaks through to him with the power of love, avoiding death and gaining an ally. Flynn/Exodus continues to stay in the ghost zone with spider mama doing various evil things, and that’s the story of whatever the fresh hell bench is up to now.

basically just go give @the-stove-is-on-fire​ and every other person trying to repurpose this dumpster fire love while we try and turn this hot mess into some quality.

#Danny Phantom #currently talking #I was summoned from the depth by canon ancient content but alas. she looks awful. #the discord has come up with some very good takes on him tho

[lucifer-is-a-bag-of-dicks]

fuck I still haven't done the rewrite of the Mutant Town AU that I specifically came off hiatus to write, like the Plant Witch Sam and Pharaoh Tucker posts were written to prep this au and I just got wildly distracted so uhhhh

yeah the concept is in the link but the gist is that the people and town becoming mutated by constant ectoplasmic contamination, we all know and love this concept right but I'm gonna expand on it

this is a direct result of the portal being opened, but they aren't getting infected from the portal, the issue is that creating a permanent opening into the ghost zone has weakened the veil between their worlds and Amity Park and the Ghost Zone sort of slip in and out of each other constantly

and because ectoplasm responds strongly to emotions (poltergeists being made from atmospheric emotions for example) it all tends to converge very heavily at the school full of hormonal teenagers

so Casper High becomes its own god damn cryptid, the teachers get so jaded about opening the door to a classroom and finding just a whole ass ghost zone on the other side that they just put a sign on the door telling kids to go to a different room, lockers swap contents with other lockers so kids have started putting their names on the inside so they know who's stuff they've just found

this also means the kids get super affected, like super affected, literally, they all get ghost powers, some are just physical mutations, some are just super abilities, or a general increase in natural ability, like a member of the track team getting super speed

it takes a while for Danny and co. to figure this out, Sam and Tucker should have been warning signs as they've spent the most time around ghosts and the ghost zone, but that's why the Witch Sam and Pharaoh Tucker posts are important

they have powers, but they thought they came exclusively from outside sources, they had no idea that their abilities were also strengthened and influenced by being highly contaminated by ectoplasm, which is why when one day Mikey sneezes and green acid shoots out of his nose and melts his desk, everyone is a little bit startled

the teachers have long since started using ghost detectors after the time Paulina spent a whole week overshadowed by Kitty, so Mikey gets a check over and other than the usual atmospheric reading Lancer gets nothing especially strong from him

there have been concerns about the gradually increasing ectoplasmic content in the air messing with ghost detector results, the devices have to be recalibrated constantly, so Lancer asks the one and only son of the local ghost hunters in the room if he has some other way to check

Danny's parents make him keep a few protective items in his schoolbag, so he tries some gear on him to see if anything comes flying out, but nothing does, Danny isn't too surprised seeing as he couldn't sense a ghost in the room anyway, but it definitely makes things a little concerning

even if it were a repeat of the Spectra incident and he wasn't being overshadowed, the Fenton's tech would have still gotten rid of whatever was causing this if it were an external influence

Mikey is sent home for the day and his parents are told to keep an eye on him

and then the next week, Star drops a pen off her desk and a strand of her hair whips out to grab it, she's also checked for ghost influence and sent home

a few weeks after that it happens again, a kid on the basketball team makes a leap to the net and stays in the air, they have to call in the cheerleaders to climb on top of each other to reach him and pull him down

Danny has been trying to figure out what's happening from the first moment with Mikey, and his parents have also been getting calls from worried parents who want to know if they can fix whatever's happening to their kids

over the next couple of months, every kid in the school has some kind of ability or mutation, Dash heals whoever he touches, which he discovers after punching Nathan in the face and curing his acne, Paulina turns invisible, which freaks her out at first until she realises it's great for eavesdropping, Wes can conjure fire (because I desperately needed him to have a polarising ability to Danny), Kwan becomes empathic and can feel and influence people's emotions

Valerie also had an early mutation that she didn't know about, when Technus gave her a new suit, her body pretty much just absorbed it as a part of her, Technus had not intended this to happen, and was pretty peeved about it, Valerie found out that she had stolen control over the suit when Technus had a big rant about it during a fight, and she put the pieces together once other kids started developing abilities

this whole thing causes a ton of chaos as kids are struggling to control what they can do, so Danny has to step in and help them out, he often has to run off to change into Phantom in order to protect everyone from an ability that's gone haywire, he ends up pretty much running ghost power training courses after school to help them control themselves

he's also gotten stuck in situations where he's had to step in and help someone without having the time to change forms, meaning he has to make up a cover story about having developed his own powers way before everyone else since he's been living on top of a portal for years, he only tells people about his ice powers

Jazz has always had a tendency to be able to reign in her emotions and keep a cool head, (the only ones who can really push her buttons are Danny and sometimes her parents, at school around other kids who look up to her she's often very in control) meaning she doesn't draw ectoplasm to herself all that much, and though Danny uses the excuse of having lived on top of a ghost portal to explain why he's already so familiar with using his power, it's actually not even remotely true, because the Fentons use specialised air purifiers to keep the atmospheric ectoplasm at a manageable level, the Fenton house ironically has the least atmospheric contamination compared to the rest of the town, that's how Maddie and Jack have had limited mutation to themselves (though they aren't wholly free, they've mostly just gotten physically stronger and tougher)

so even though Jazz develops her power a little earlier than everyone else's, it's not that far ahead, and she actually doesn't even realise she already has one until half the school has developed theirs

Jazz has the power to slow time in a little bubble around herself, she'd been using it without realising while studying, having gotten through hours of work in half that time, she always thought it was just her losing track of time or she was just getting faster at reading, she also spends a lot of time counselling other students and trying to help them sort out their problems, and they'd often comment that they felt like they'd been talking for so much longer than they had, again she just chalked it up to losing track of time

a lot of students had wondered why Danny developed a power early and Jazz hadn't, until someone walked in on Jazz helping a girl through a panic attack in the bathroom, and found them both talking extremely fast, a lot of her friends realised in hindsight that she'd been doing that unwittingly for quite a while, nobody had noticed because she always talked to people privately, so nobody outside her little time bubble had seen it happen

Sam and Tucker come clean about their abilities too, but they also don't give the full rundown, still keeping some things close to the chest to avoid standing out from everyone else

then there's the teachers

adults typically have a better time regulating emotions than teenagers, meaning much like Jazz they aren't drawing as much ectoplasm toward themselves, but this doesn't exempt them from developing something after a while, especially with the heightened stress of managing a school full of volatile super kids

Mr Lancer discovers that he can create shields, after an incident where he jumps in front of some students to protect them from another power gone awry

Tetslaff ends up with a sonic ability, able to project her voice like a megaphone (yes this is a Coach Boomer from Sky High reference don't @ me), Principal Ishiyama develops a physical mutation, growing to twice her size, she likes that she can tower over the students while delivering speeches, but she doesn't like having to stoop through doors all the time, she has the one to her office resized, along with her chair and desk

so as you can imagine, the town ends up erupting into chaos, a lot of kids very much misuse their abilities, Danny does his best as Phantom to teach people to be responsible, but sometimes he has to resort to literally kicking their asses to get them to straighten up

but for the most part, a ton of kids were already looking up to him, and are generally pretty happy to follow his example, especially the more popular kids, it's generally considered not very cool to get your ass kicked by Phantom, so weirdly enough a lot of kids get peer pressured into not causing any real damage or injury with their powers

this doesn't mean they don't absolutely misuse them, they're just more subtle about it

until a ghost shows up, a lot of the kids are more than happy to let loose to protect themselves and their friends, and Phantom for the most part is happy to let them, with some supervision of course, he still has to make sure nobody gets too hurt (including the ghosts)

the entire debacle makes Danny's life simultaneously a whole lot easier AND so much more fucking stressful

#lula's aus #mutant town au #danny phantom #you have no idea how hard it was to find the links to the other posts #tumblr's search system was fucking me around so much

[shinygoldstar]

Midnight Snack

DannyMay Day 11: Midnight

(Also DannyMay Shadow, Scars, Power, Nature, Seasons, Teeth can you find them all?)

Word Count: 2271 (not beta’d. experimental writing)

Warning: mentions of ghost cannibalism, nothing explicit

@floralflowerpower ​ – for that ghost cannibalism post

(it’s 1 am so i’m gonna sleep now. might post on AO3 later)

Edit: AO3 Added!

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It was mid-October. The leaves are starting to turn yellow heralding the approaching autumn. Danny was happy because that meant the unusually hot weather is almost over. It wasn’t that he’s melting from the heat- quite the opposite, he’s probably the only person in Amity that isn’t sweltering under the sun with his cold core. But due to this exact same reason, his cooler body temperature also drew in water vapor which condenses on his skin, pooling into beads of water dripping down his shirt, making him appear extra sweaty. He can’t wait for the temperature to be cool enough to not change clothes every few hours. Good thing his clothes are purchased by the dozen; no one really noticed him wearing new sets of clothes throughout the day.

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It was the contaminated fridge foods that disappeared first. No one missed them. At least until they can’t find the mutated turkeys for their annual Thanksgiving hunting event.

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Danny yawned as he and his friends entered Fenton Works. Autumn is comfy. Just the right temperature where he can wear loose clothing and not be stared at for being underdressed for the weather. No ‘sweating’ either. His mouth closed with a click, a bit too fast on his new fangs. Danny winced. The fangs seemed to have grown longer overnight again. At this rate Danny won’t be able to pass them off as normal pointy canine teeth for much longer. It didn’t hurt but the itch is annoying. Danny took a detour to the fridge, grabbing an ice cube from the freezer and popped it into his mouth, absentmindedly chewing on the cubes to take the edge off the itch as they walked down to the basement lab. His parents are at a paranormal convention at a nearby city and won’t be back until tomorrow. Danny and his friends gladly took the opportunity to do their ‘Danny’s quarterly fitness test’.

Danny flipped on the light switch and walked to the center of the lab, transforming into his ghost form. “Okay I’m ready. What’s first on the list?”

Tucker dropped his bag and took out a piece of notebook paper, “Okay, first we gotta do the baseline measurements. Height, weight, temperature, and the ecto reading.” Sam dug through her sports bag, pulling out the measurement tape. She held it against Danny, eyes scanning the tape measurement numbers. “Still the same height.”

Tucker nodded, noting down the measurement in Danny’s health notebook. “Next, weight.” Danny stood over the scale. “Yup, still the same weight too.”  

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Then it was the ecto-samples that Jack misplaced in the kitchen fridge. Jack warned everyone a few days later (everyone knows to avoid glowing food on normal basis so the delayed warning is mostly just courtesy), but no one could find where it went and assumed it grew legs to join the other tiny ecto-samples lurking as their equivalent of household pests. (No matter how often Maddie tried to patch up the mouse hole it keeps reappearing in the same shape but in a different part of the house as if the original mouse hole got transplanted from its original location)

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“Lunch Lady’s right. You need to eat more. You’re still as skinny as ever.” Sam remarked as Danny took the thermometer out of his mouth. “76 F. The ghosts keep attacking me all day and night. You’d think my parents would notice when a ghost sneaks pass them while they work in the lab but I triggered all their ghost alarms just by being in the house so they deactivated the system when I’m around. They must’ve kept it turned off during the day too.”

“Tough luck dude. Ecto scan next.” Tucker passed the scanner to Sam while Danny stood still for her to scan. The machine beeped, “Wow 6.8, that’s quite a jump from last quarter’s 5.1”

“Maybe it was from all the ghost fighting I did over the summer?”

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As the leaves began to fall from the branches, ghost attacks lessened in frequency. Not looking the gift horse in the mouth Danny happily enjoyed the lack of ghost attacks to focus more on his studies. If he did well enough, he might even get Bs for his efforts. He also managed to avoid getting detention for the entire week much to the relief of everyone involved.

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Two days before Thanksgiving, the Fentons finally remembered their turkeys. But by then it was gone. In a rush, they quickly purchased a pre-made turkey instead. While Danny enjoyed the fact that they’re having a normal family dinner for once, he can’t help but feel like there’s something off about the chicken. As if it’s missing a particular tangy or zingy flavor that would’ve made it richer in flavor. ‘Must’ve been because it’s overcooked.’

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"Honey? Have you seen the new ecto-samples I placed in the basement lab fridge?" “Again Jack? This is the third time this month. Have you checked the upstairs fridge?” “I-ah was pretty sure I placed them in the correct fridge this time. Must be some no-good thievin’ ghost.” “I’ll set up the ecto-anti-theft, that’ll get ‘em good! No ghost can escape Jack Fenton for long!”

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*Intruder Alert* *Intruder Alert*

Red lights peppered with robotic voice and alarm noises lurched Maddie into full alert mode. She quickly took stock of her surroundings and tried to wake Jack up. But Jack had his earplugs on and continued to snore blissfully. A loud knock on the door caught her attention. “What’s going on mom?” Jazz’s voice floated through the door. Maddie quickly rose to open the bedroom door, swiftly pulled Jazz in and locked the door. “Jazz dear, try to wake your dad up. I’ll go check on the intruder.” Maddie strode quietly to the door then paused, “Have you checked on Danny?” Jazz bit her lips and looked away for a moment “-ah yeah! Danny’s snoring so loud he can’t hear the alarm.” Maddie twisted the doorknob but paused, hesitating. “He’s fine mom.” Jazz reassures her. “If Danny wakes up, he’ll come here first. I’ll let him know what’s going on.”

The alarm rang loudly in her ears as she walked down the stairs to the basement lab, its loud ringing noise effectively covering up the sound of her footsteps. Reaching the basement floor, Maddie quickly crept over to hide behind the shelf on her left, eyes scanning the lab for the intruder.

The glass jars clinked as a shadow moved about the fridge. A very familiar shadow. That didn’t glow. Maddie turned on the lab lights. “Danny?” she started, carefully walking over to face him, her eyes still scanning him to check if he’s really her Danny. The faint, barely noticeable scar on his eyebrow from his attempt to fly off the tree when he was five is there confirming his identity.

“What are you doing down here-?” Maddie noticed the glowing jar in his hand, “and what exactly are you doing?” Danny hazily stared at her; eyes half-lidded. Maddie snapped her fingers to get his attention. Danny didn’t blink. “He's still not awake, Danny come on wake up!”, she shook his shoulders. “Huh? Wuzzat?” Danny groggily woke up. He blinked in confusion.

Finally aware of his surroundings, Danny looked down at his right hand that still held the glowing sample. “Aah!” Danny yelped dropping the sample, then realizing he dropped the sample, tries to catch the jar, fumbling clumsily. Maddie would’ve laughed if it was anywhere else but in this situation. “Danny, do you remember what you were doing?”

“I was doing my homework and was craving for a good cheeseburger?”

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“And the half-opened jar of ectoplasm?”

“Pickles?”

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“Dude are you for real? That was priceless!” Tucker crowed with laughter. Sam leaned away from Tucker to avoid the meat spittle, “Urgh! Gross Tucker! Swallow it before you speak!”

Danny grumbled into his glass of milkshake, “’s not funny Tuck. you didn't see her face. She was about ready to scan me for signs of ecto-possession. Good thing my lie about craving cheeseburger and opening the wrong fridge worked. Otherwise I’d be in big trouble if she scanned me now with my latest ecto-reading. Anyways I'm banned from the lab now.” Danny bit into his burger.

“So what really happened there dude? Did you seriously sleepwalk into the basement lab?”

“I think so? I don’t really remember anything before Mom found me in the lab. Only that I was feeling a bit hungry.”

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The ghosts stopped coming. Everyone in Amity held their breath when there were no ghost attacks for two weeks straight, then a month. Then two months, three. No ghosts. They let out their collective breath. It might be too soon to hope but for now they will enjoy their ghost-free, perfectly ordinary life. It feels a bit strange to not have ghost related interruptions as part of their daily routine but they didn’t miss the ghost-related reconstruction expenses. The local insurance company employees received a nice bonus for the ghost-free month.

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By the time March rolled in, Danny is restless. “Guys, there's definitely something big going on.”, he waved his hands for emphasis. “The Fenton portal is still open yet no ghost came through? Not even Boxy since the North District warehouse thing last month. There’s definitely something big going on. I've been taking the ghost-free break for granted for a while now and it helped save my grades but this is too big to ignore.”

“Dude, maybe it’s because you’re much more powerful now? Your latest reading last week is 8.2. None of the ghosts we’ve met so far is above 6 except for Vlad and the Ghost King.” Tucker suggested.

“You might have a point there, Tucker. We haven’t seen any of the ghosts bothering Vlad so far and he’s definitely higher than 6.” Sam added.

Danny frowned, “Maybe you’re right but I just have this nagging feeling that that’s not quite it.”

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Danny entered the Zone with little fanfare. The area around the Fenton portal looked normal enough, the usual rocks and clouds of debris are still floating around in their usual areas. Danny aimlessly passed through the nooks and crannies, ducking under the endless spiral staircase, not entirely sure of what to look for. The Zone felt a bit quiet today but Danny haven’t been to the Zone that frequently to be certain about it.

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The Ghost Zone, while still filled with random bits of odds and ends felt empty somehow. It wasn't until he sighted Skulker that he realized he hasn't seen any of the tiny blog ghosts nor the occasional passerby ghosts through his trip.

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Luckily or unluckily, Danny quickly spotted someone he knew in the distance. As if called, Skulker turned his head towards Danny, then veered sharply to the left and flew fast in Danny's opposite direction, a first for the self-proclaimed hunter to not hunt his favorite prey. ‘Something's not right and Skulker definitely knows something.’ Danny thought.

Danny quickly chased after him; Skulker could never beat Danny at speed chase even at his best, and he won't be winning today's unplanned race either. “Hey Skulker! What’s going on?” Danny yelled over the gap between them but Skulker gave no reply, diving down deep into the reddish forest ravines of the island below. Not to be deterred, Danny did a quick aerial flip, adjusting his flight angle to follow down Skulker’s path. Danny soon caught up to Skulker and launched him into a nearby rock with sticky ectoplasm to hold him still long enough to talk. Skulker ejected from his metal suit but Danny was faster and caught the real ghost before he can escape.

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(Why is Skulker fleeing?)

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"Hey Skulker, not hunting me for once?" Danny asked teasingly.

Skulker paled (Danny never knew ghosts can turn pale) and squirmed even more. Danny's smile dropped.

"What’s going on Skulker?" he asked worriedly. “None of the ghosts have appeared in the human world and the Zone looks empty somehow”

Skulker squirmed a bit more but realizing he’s stuck finally said, “Ghost Child, haven’t you ever wondered why the Infinite Realms is never overcrowded?”

Danny frowned, puzzled as to where this leads to. “How is this related to this situation?” Skulker stared at Danny stunned.

“What?” Danny asked, suddenly self-conscious, “-was there something I was supposed to know about?”

Skulker sighed, unconsciously loosening a bit of his tension, “You’re so young. So very young. We Ghosts don’t fade as fast as Newcomers arrive from your world. In the Realms, there's a natural system that keeps the population under control. An ecosystem. There's predator and there's prey. And then there's the Apex Predator. There's a reason why Dark was feared. It wasn't just for his harsh rule. It was because he was the Apex Predator.”

Danny struck at the odd wording, "’Was’? Was that because he got sealed?” Danny paused, “But wait- if he's sealed, he would still be the Apex predator. So how-? Wait. Did I?"

Skulker nodded, "Good you're catching on fast. By defeating Pariah Dark, you have proven to the Realms that you're the best candidate for the Apex Predator. And with the new status comes sets of conducts, one your body instincts know well. You've been culling down the uncontrolled excess from Pariah Dark's sleep quite fast. Your hunger would settle down soon of course once balance has been re-established in the Realms."

“But- How- Wait- What-?” Danny looked down at his hand “Hey Skulker--!” but his hand is bare.

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Danny’s lips tasted oddly tangy, energized.  

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(Skulker might've slipped out of Danny's slack hand while Danny is in shock. Danny might've bit his lips hard enough to bleed. It's not that hard with his new fangs. But this is just speculation...)

#midnight snack au #danny phantom #dannymay2021 #DP ghost cannibalism #goldpost #Skulker BS'd on the spot and I took it as worldbuilding material #the added last part is the original ending #interpretation of the final ending is now up to you #😏😏😏

[five-rivers]

Green Sky Highway

Phic Phight Phic for @deuynndoodles

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The Fenton Ecto Cell Bettery (aka the Better Battery) was designed to draw power from not only an internal, pre-charged store of ectoplasm, but also from ambient, atmospheric ectoplasm.  This meant that it would never run out of juice so long as it was in the Ghost Zone.  The Specter Speeder was designed to travel in the Ghost Zone.  Thus, the Betteries were the perfect power source for it.  In theory.  

In practice… Well, that just wasn’t working out, and Maddie didn’t know why.  She gripped the underside of the dash and tried to push herself deeper beneath it to get a better view of the machinery.  

“Maddie?  You see anything?” asked Jack, who couldn’t fit under the dash.  He’d been inspecting as much of the engine as he could from the inside, which wasn’t much.  The Speeder wasn’t designed to be serviced while free-floating in the Ghost Zone.  

Which, now that she thought of it, was a serious oversight.  

“Everything looks fine,” said Maddie.  “Except that it doesn’t have any power.  Nothing’s lighting up, but all the connections look good. You?”

“I can’t get anything to work.  Anything.  It’s like… we’re in some kind of technological dead zone.  But that doesn’t make sense.”

Maddie pulled herself out to see Jack vigorously scratching his head and shedding dandruff everywhere.  “Ghosts do tend to disrupt technology.”

“But we fixed that.  We designed all our weapons to work with that.”

“We know there are things we don’t know,” said Maddie, “and it’s always good to find new things!  Though not pleasant to find them out like this…”  They should really test their inventions more, honestly.  

But it had been over a year of testing since they opened the portal.  They had to jump in at some point, didn’t they?  That was the whole point of the portal.  

She sighed.  “Well, we didn’t have a lot of forward momentum when the portal cut out.”  She looked out the window.  “We could see if we can get out and engage our jetpacks.”

“Uh, about that,” said Jack.  He swung open the door to the jetpack cabinet.  The empty jetpack cabinet.  “I may have forgotten to put them back after refueling them.”

“Jack…”

“I know, I’m sorry.”

Maddie massaged the bridge of her nose with her mostly-clean knuckles.  This was a repeat of the handle inside the weapons vault.  At least he wasn’t pushing the blame for it back onto Danny or Jazz.  That would definitely have started a fight.  

On the other hand, there really wasn’t any guarantee the jetpacks would even still be functional, so maybe it was for the best. For certain values of best.  

She groaned.  

There was a knocking sound.  “Is that coming from the engine?” Maddie asked.  

“No…” said Jack, slowly.  “I think it came from the door…”

They both turned to stare.  Something moved outside it.  They shifted to get a better view out the window.  

Phantom was out there, tapping on the door with a ten-foot pole.  

“That little unnatural abomination,” cursed Jack under his breath.  “He’s going to scratch the paint!”

Phantom apparently saw them and waved.  “Hey!” he shouted, just loud enough to be heard through the walls of the Speeder.  “Do you guys need a lift?”

Jack and Maddie turned to each other.  

“How did he know we were here?”

“I don’t know,” said Jack.  “Do you think he followed us?”

“It wouldn’t be difficult, but I’m surprised he didn’t show up on our detectors.”

“He does seem to have the ability to drop off of them.”

“True,” said Maddie.  “So, how do we handle this?  Fenton bat?”

“I don’t know, Mads.  He might be, uh, sincere?  That time with the ectofiltrator he did help me.”

“That’s one, single, datapoint.  He’s a been a menace every other time we’ve encountered him.”

“I don’t know that we have much other choice,” said Jack, nodding towards the dead engines and the empty jetpack cabinet.

Maddie huffed out a sigh, then looked back at Phantom, who waved again.  

“Fine.  We still have to decide how to deal with him while we’re cooperating with him.  Or if he decides to show his true colors.”

“Good idea.”

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Danny knew this had been a terrible, terrible idea the moment his parents opened the door to the Speeder armed to the teeth.  Why did they always feel the need to do that? None of the weapons, with the possible exceptions of the Fenton Bat and the Fenton Crowbar could even work here.

How his parents had, on their first jaunt into the Ghost Zone, managed to run smack into the Time Locked Lands was beyond him. They had to go to the one place in the Ghost Zone that the Speeder wouldn’t work and after coating the Speeder with some kind of anti-ghost spray that Danny absolutely refused to touch again.  Ever. Especially in ghost form.  Except with a ten-foot pole.

(If they’d left the spray off, he could have just pushed the Speeder back out of the Time Locked Lands.  But, no, they had to make everything as difficult and painful as possible.)

“I am not carrying all that,” said Danny, flatly.

(Especially because it would all turn back on once they left the Time Lost Lands, and if there wasn’t a Specter Deflector under all that, he’d eat his own belt.)

“Then we aren’t going anywhere with you!” proclaimed Maddie.  

“You’re stranded in the middle of the Ghost Zone. I don’t think you have a choice.”

“We do!”

“I could literally just fly over there and snatch you right now.  Plus, again, stranded.  Do you even have any food in there?”

“Of course we do!” said Maddie.  “We aren’t incompetent.”

Jack looked guilty.  Danny decided not to bring it up.

“Okay, but still, you’re going to run out eventually, and then you’ll still be floating in the Ghost Zone with no way to get out.  You aren’t going to get another friendly ghost coming by.”

“I’ve never seen a friendly ghost to begin with!”

“Maddie…”

“I can just leave, you know,” said Danny, planting his hands on his hips and bluffing for all he was worth.  He was not leaving his parents here to be used as hostages or who knew what else.  

Hopefully, they wouldn’t call the bluff.  They shouldn’t.  No sane, reasonable person would.  He was their only way out of this mess.  On the other hand, his parents had never been completely sane, reasonable people.  

Danny thought his odds were about fifty-fifty.  Which meant he could hope.  

Jack and Maddie had an intense, whispered conversation. This, thankfully, lead to them divesting themselves of most of their visible weaponry.  Which meant that they still had more guns on them than most professional soldiers during a firefight.  

Well, it was better than he’d expected.  But it was still too many.  

“Take the Specter Deflectors off,” he said.  “What do you think will happen if I try to carry you and you have those on.”

There was muttering.  

“Come on, come on,” said Danny, snapping his fingers. Which really shouldn’t work through his gloves but did anyway.  

Sometimes ghost nonsense was good for making lasers fly from your hands, and sometimes it was good for tiny aesthetic breaks in physics. It was a grab bag, really.  

“Alright,” said Danny.  “I’m going to fly over and pick you up.  Don’t hit me.”

Oh, jeez, he was not looking forward to carrying them all the way over to the portal.  Sure, he could bench press a school bus, but there was a difference between holding up a school bus for a minute and carrying two people who hated his guts a mile through enemy territory while flying slowly enough not to give them windburn.  

Sure, it’d probably only take a few minutes, even then, but those would be the longest few minutes in his entire life.  Not counting his actual death.  

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Being carried by Phantom had to be the single worst experience in Jack’s entire life.  

It wasn’t the speed or the lack of control – he loved carnival rides – or the height – Jack couldn’t tell you how many buildings he’d jumped off in pursuit of ghosts – or even the fact that Phantom was a sinister specter, and ectoplasmic emanation, a putrid piece of protoplasm – he’d been carried by ghosts before, usually ones who were a lot more upfront about wanting to kill him.  

Actually, Jack didn’t know why he didn’t like it. He just didn’t.  

Maybe it was just how uncomfortable it was?  But Jack did way more uncomfortable things. Like interacting with his sister-in-law. Brr.  

Maybe it was the lurking feeling behind every interaction he ever had with Phantom that there was something he just wasn’t seeing, some hidden truth that would make everything about Phantom, every contradiction, every confusion, make sense.

Nah, that couldn’t be it.  Maddie would have figured it out by now.  That’s why they made such a great team.  He noticed the things she didn’t, and she noticed the things he didn’t.  

“You’re going the wrong way,” snapped Maddie.  

Just like that!

Wait.  That was a really bad thing.

“I’m not going the wrong way,” snapped Phantom.  “I’m avoiding Walker’s prison.  I don’t know how he didn’t catch you on your way out, but I’m not eager to be thrown in jail for a thousand years.”

“Ghosts have jail?” asked Jack surprised.  

“Depends where you are,” said Phantom.  “Walker isn’t really a sheriff, though.  There’s no government behind him and he just makes up rules randomly so he can lock up anybody he doesn’t like.”

“Like you,” observed Jack.  

“Why doesn’t it surprise me that you’re even wanted by whatever passes for the law here?”

“First, rude.  Secondly, there are realms in here that are just as organized and civilized as any country on Earth.  Just because you opened your portal into the equivalent of post-apocalyptic Detroit doesn’t mean it’s all like this.”

“I’ll believe it when I see it,” said Maddie.  

“I could arrange that, you know,” said Phantom, stilling.

Jack laughed nervously.  “Maybe another time?”  The ghost would do what it would do, but they didn’t need to encourage him to bring them even deeper into the Ghost Zone.  They were currently banking on Phantom’s obsession with heroics to get them home, but if they changed the equation…  Yeah, Jack didn’t want to deal with the consequences of that.  

Ghosts were like computers that ran only one program. One homicidal, destructive program.

It was like that thought experiment about an AI whose job was to maximize the number of paperclips.  It’d just keep on making more and more paperclips until nothing was left.  Which was why they had to be stopped.  

Easier said than done, as Jack and Maddie had learned.

“You don’t have to be so freaked out,” muttered Phantom. “It isn’t like I’m going to kidnap you or anything.”  He pretended to sigh.  

What was the point of that?  He had to know that Jack and Maddie wouldn’t fall for his tricks. Actually, come to think of it, he was miming breathing, too, and had been the whole time.  

Maybe that’s why Jack was so uncomfortable.  The constant undercurrent of deception.  

Hmmm… something to think on.  

“What’s that?” asked Maddie, pointing.  

“Uh,” said Phantom, who did a double take.  

Ooh, that wasn’t reassuring.  

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Danny clenched his teeth, his parents’ reactions to him weren’t reassuring, and even less reassuring was the way Pariah’s Keep had moved from its usual creepy location and to this new creepy location. Not that there were any non-creepy locations in the Ghost Zone.  It was part of the place’s charm.  

No, really.  Some part of Danny craved the creepiness.  He was half-ghost, after all.  

(Even if his idea of creepiness was, according to his friends, sort of lame.)

But back to the main point.  The keep really, really shouldn’t be here.  And it was creeping him out.  

It should be okay to just… fly past it, though, right? Just being in its airspace in the past hadn’t done anything bad.  So, flying by with his parents in tow shouldn’t do anything either.  Right?

Danny put on more speed, just in case.  This coincided with a bunch of large ghost ravens (or were they crows?) dive bombing them and forcing him to land to defend himself and parents.  The only land around being the rim of the island that supported the keep.

He knew something like this would happen. Maybe not exactly this, but he just knew he’d be attacked and everything would devolve into nonsense, and—

Huh.  The birds weren’t attacking him, just his parents.  Oh, these were racist (mortalist?) birds.  Gross.  Trust Pariah Dark to have bigoted birds.  He called up a shield to protect his parents.  Whereupon they shot him in the back, shouting about how he betrayed them to the birds, because why not?  

Why was his life like this?

He pushed himself up off the ground.  Starbursts twinkled behind his eyes.  Neither his parents nor the crows were in sight.  The crows could have gone anywhere.  His parents on the other hand…

There was only one place they could have gone.  

Well.  At least none of the nonsentient traps would work on them, seeing as they were humans. What were the odds that they’d run into one of the sentient defenders?

Well… considering the ravens?

Yeah.  That’d be about one hundred percent.

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“Maddie, I don’t know about this…” said Jack, examining the tall, vaulted ceiling.  

“We had to get away from Phantom.  This was the only way to go.”

“But he came here for a reason, Mads,” whispered Jack, tip-toing.

“Yeah, this is definitely a trap.  But what can we do?”

“Jack?  Maddie? This is not a place you want to wander around in! Oh, holy—” There was a loud thump.  

Maddie grabbed Jack’s hand and pulled him forward. “We have to get away from him.”

“Come on!  This is a floating island!  I’m your only way off!  Why are you like this?”

“He has a point,” said Jack.  

Maddie stopped.  “I guess he does.”

“This is literally the worst place you could have picked to run away!”  A sound like a very large door opening and closing reached their ears.  “This is Pariah Dark’s place!  Where did you even go?”

“Mads?”

“Yeah?”

“Who’s Pariah Dark?”

“I think that was the name of the ghost that sucked the town into the Ghost Zone a few months ago.”

“Please, guys!  I’m trying to help you here!  This place is ultra-dangerous!  You could accidentally – yikes! – wake up Pariah Dark.”  

“Maybe we should…”

“Yeah,” said Maddie, “maybe we should.”

“Phantom!” called Jack.  “Phantom!  We’re over—” The floor opened up underneath them and they fell into the dark.  

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Maddie woke to a dark room, tied to a chair.  She noticed the faintly glowing ghost in front of her and jolted backwards.

The ghost wore a set of painted and engraved plate armor, a pair of lavender-white eyes glowing from behind the slats of its visor.  A knight, of sorts, Maddie supposed.  

“You…” droned the ghost in a painfully stereotypical ghostly moan.  “Enemies of the king… why have you come here?”

“Huh?”

That was Jack’s voice.  He was tied behind her, apparently.  

“We don’t have anything to say to you,” snapped Maddie.

“Uh,” said Jack.  Something twisted behind Maddie.  “Are you a friend of Phantom?”

“A friend?  A friend?”

“I’m going to take that as a no,” muttered Maddie.  

The door of the room flew off its hinges.  “Fright Knight!” shouted Phantom, pointing a glowing finger.  “Wait, you aren’t Fright Knight.  Who are you, and what do you want with my- With, uh, the Fenton ghost hunters?  Who I don’t know very well at all. Promise.”

“What,” said the ghost.  

“What,” said Maddie.  

“What,” said Jack.  

“Okay, forget everything I just said.”  He gestured at the ghost.  “Who are you?”

“My name is Paladin, my liege.”

“Okay, okay, cool, cool.  I- Wait, what?  What did you call me?”

“My liege?”

Phantom looked like he was having an existential crisis.  

“Maddie was right!” exclaimed Jack, who couldn’t see Phantom’s face.  “You did lead us into a trap!”

“What?  No?  I’ve never even met this guy before!  You are a guy, right?”

“Yes, my liege.”

“Right.  I’m going to put that on the backburner and freak out about it later.  How are you- Why are you—” Phantom shook his head.  “Why are you here in Pariah’s Keep?”

“It’s your keep.”

“Since when?”

“Say what now?” asked Jack and Maddie at once.  

“Look, this is news to me, too.  But, back to the question.  You.  The keep. Why?  I mean, you weren’t here before.”

“That is because Pariah sealed me, my liege.  When you defeated him, I was released and immediately swore fealty to the true king.  You.”

“I am so freaking out right now, but we’ll revisit that. Later.  Right now, I have to get these guys home.”

“But they have hostile intentions towards your person, my liege!”

“Everyone has hostile intentions towards me.  I’m honestly surprised you haven’t attacked me yet.”

“Ah.  My liege, perhaps you should seek the services of a priest, if all your experiences with new people are such.”

“Is that the medieval equivalent of a therapist?”

“I fear I do not know what that is.  Why do you ask?”

“Because the last time I talked to one of those, they purposefully picked at every one of my insecurities and then tried to murder my, uh.  Someone close to me.”

“An evil counselor, then,” said the knight, gravely.

“I want to agree with you, but somehow I feel like you’re talking about something completely different than the image in my head.”

“That may be true, my liege.  Doubtless, you are very wise.”

Maddie was… lost.  

Very lost.  

Even so, her prerogative was escaping.  She started twisting, trying to get to the knots around her wrists.  

“Did you, uh, pilot the castle out here?”

“Yes.  I sensed that mortal enemies of the king, that’s you—”

“I will debate that as soon as my brain stops screaming at me.”

“—had entered the Realm.”

“Right.  Yeah. Thank you.  But I can handle these guys.  And I need to get them home.  Please. I made a deal with them.”

“With these?”

“Hey!” said Jack, offended.  

“I mean, I use the term deal pretty loosely.”

“Hey!”

“But yes.  Please.  Just.  Dang.  How did you tie them up that quickly?”

“It’s a hobby.”

“Do you mind if I take the chairs?”

“They are your chairs, my liege.”

“I’m still not used to that.”

“Are you quite certain you want to take them?  And just… Let them loose?  The dungeon here is very functional.  We even have an oubliette.”

“Raincheck.  But thank you.  Really, I mean it.”  Phantom flew behind Maddie, and she protested as the chair she was in was yanked upward. “Uh… I might have gotten turned around a time or two, so if you could…”

“Of course!  The keep does seem to have sustained some damage, so we will have to take some detours.”

“Phantom!  Phantom! Put us down and untie us.”

“Nah, I think I like this better.  Your kids can untie you once I bring you back!”

“You’re going to drag us all the way through the Ghost Zone?”

“That’s the plan.”

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The rest of the flight was surprisingly pleasant. No one attacked, and his parents were much easier to carry in the chairs.  Sure, they struggled, but the struggling was much more manageable than the wriggling from before.  

They were mad at him.  But they were always mad at him.  So.  

No loss, really.

With the utmost carefulness, Danny set them down in the middle of the lab, still tied up, and then began zapping then tossing their most troublesome inventions into the gaping maw of the portal while they screamed at him.  

Normally, he wouldn’t do this, especially after successfully rescuing his parents and hopefully raising their opinion of him, but some of those inventions were painful.  Like.  A lot painful.  And dangerous.  Also, he was doing his level best to avoid thinking about the whole ‘king’ thing.  

Which he couldn’t do forever.  

Especially since Jazz walked down the stairs, probably drawn by the screaming, to see Danny shoving half of the Ghost Catcher through the portal sans-strings.  

“Uh,” said Danny.  

“Get that ghost, Jazzy-pants!”

Danny vanished and fled upstairs.  

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Jazz had seen many strange things in her life, but that scene was one of the weirder ones.  

It took some time to untie her parents, longer to extract herself from the ensuing rant and their attempt to salvage their equipment from Danny’s all-too-explicable rampage.  Honestly, she was surprised Danny hadn’t snapped earlier.  

She opened the door to his room.  It was empty.  She squinted. He was not just leaving her hanging like that, with no context to what happened other than their parents’ ranting.  She opened her door.  

Danny was lying on his side on the middle of her rag rug, hugging Bearbert Einstein.  

“A ghost told me I was king and that I needed a priest.”

Oh boy.  

#danny phantom #phic phight #phic phight 2021

[constellaj]

16

Please talk more about your reboot!

16: If you could change anything in the show, what would you change?

okay so how i would re-do CANON is completely different from how i would talk abt a reboot so im gonna touch on a couple things in both contexts! the reason for the difference is canon rewrites imply i can go back in time and introduce dp fresh and new, before anyone knows what it is; but for a reboot, id be working with an audience that has a better understanding of the source material, so i dont need to spend as much time explaining, but i also need to keep everything recognizable

Valerie

REWRITE: i would def make it more danny's fault that her dad lost his job, like danny was intentionally being reckless and shattered some security stuff, and he has a whole mini lesson about learning to not just run in guns blazing. i would probably remove the dating stuff with her and danny (and tuckers crush) too, I think them wanting to be good friends is good enough for freshman year

REBOOT: the fandom already knows valerie exists, so i would actually skip the whole shades-of-gray introductory episode and have her be present as the huntress from day 1-- probably even before danny got his powers. cujo is also HER dog, and her backstory-- we'd find out in like, season 1, that a natural ghost portal (maybe one wulf opened) ripped open on her dog and killed him, and since then shes had a vendetta against ghosts cause of how reckless they are and their disregard for life-- of course, cujo isnt actually dead. cujo is a halfa. a puby halfa. anyway instead of a hoverboard she actually rides cujo around cause he can fly and its big and epic. valerie has BEEN amity parks ghost-eradicating superhero for at least a year (tho shes been in the shadows abt it) and her hatred towards danny actually just becomes really petty, like them flying next to each other chasing skulker just going "I got this. no I got this. no I got this" and they just get in each others' way and its a mutual grudge.

BOTH: i am NOT keeping in vlad giving her the suit to watch danny under any circumstances. it was only utilized half assedly in canon (when vlad couldve just had an invisible duplicate watching him instead) anyway, and I dont have any reason to keep it in a reboot either. instead i want her tech to be a combination of half-stolen and half-gerryrigged stuff and she slowly slowly learns how to build her own.

I also dont want anyone knowing her secret identity, except maybe her dad, and sam or tucker. i think it works better if danny isnt privy to this magic info

Freakshow

REWRITE: i would honestly just remove him. the episodes hes in arent particularly interesting, theyre just generic "we need a plot about x" filler and he's not compelling enough a character (at least in writing) to carry a better plot that another antagonist couldnt. i'm serious

REBOOT: unfortunately in a reboot he's gonna have to pop up somewhere or else ppl will be like "where IS HE" so I'm going to stick with running some kind of ghost circus, maybe a few occult things, but cut out a lot of the spooky magical knowledge and mcguffin stuff. maybe i could make him like, someone from vlad/jack/maddies college who always felt pushed around by them and so he has a vendetta? and theyd be the only reason he even learned abt ghosts in the first place. idk in either way I want to force him into being irredeemable but also include LYDIA (the tattoo girl ghost) way more-- I want to give her an arc that ends in her tossing freakshow aside and running off to be a ghost vigilante.

BOTH: dear god the infinity gauntlet is stupid that needs to GO AWAY. especially for the reboot cause it would exist in a post-mcu world and way too many people would complain about it

Vlad

REWRITE: amp him up to a far more sinister and villainous character. the crushing on maddie isnt enough, I want to show him on-screen performing experiments on ghosts and himself, dismissing everyone else cause he thinks hes smarter than them. i want him to be actively sabotaging the fentons at every turn. i would also clarify that he doesnt actually want danny as a son, but as a trophy-- a line where danny says something along the lines of "you don't want a son. you want a slave". i want to make him a character who wants to destroy the entire planet and put it in the ghost zone so he can be the true ghost king and i want to make this all evident from day one. if i'm writing a series villain you can bet i'm going to write a GOOD one. less petty drama here and more actual stakes.

REBOOT: it seems silly but sense with reboot we have the benefit of hindsight and recognizing that vlad wasn't a big series villain, theres no way i'd actually go back and write him to be such. for starters, of course, theres the fact that anything he does would really be an exaggerated part of the original, and it would bore an audience to see the same story again-- theres also the fact that it doesnt seem right to take a character who was treated as a joke half the time and suddenly make them big and important. no, instead for my reboot i want to lean into the petty gay uncle vibe. he had a crush on jack and now just casually insults him. he moves mansions every now and again by just haunting the family who lives in the one he wants, and taking over-- i mean, who is gonna believe that an actual ghost haunted you. he dislikes danny not because he has some concept of 'evil' and 'good' but bc danny is just too damn active. of course he actually does care about danny and his safety deep down, it's just on the surface they have very conflicting motivations-- not to mention that danny has been raised on legends from his parents of the villainous Wisconsin Ghost, who has to be stopped at all costs.

BOTH: i want jack and maddie to KNOW he's a half ghost and to actively be hunting him down for it, maybe bc they think hes possessed, or been a ghost tricking them this whole time, or the victim of a tragic lab accident who needs to be put to rest, etc. whatever the case it will give vlad actual tangible reason to despise them and genuinely suspect they dont have dannys best interests at heart. i think it would be neat if vlad was cynical and every time danny hit him with the "I'll expose us both. at least theyll still love ME" vlad could be like in the back of his head "oh god theyre going to kill this child"

Dani

REWRITE: cut her out. we don't need her character at all. maybe replace her with a more ominous shadow duplicate / clone that actually looks like danny himself and doesnt really have a name? you could probably combine her and dark dans characters for their arcs

REBOOT: instead of a clone from vlad, she's a guys in white creation using some of dannys dna after he was captured (and vlad broke him out bc he was like "ugh i guess i have to save this child")

BOTH: vlad actually cares abt her (duh), shes nonbinary (double duh), she gets the funny dissolve into goo powers

i had more i thought i was gonna write but this post is already very long and also im running out of coherency for this LUL

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[kingofthecon]

"Do you ——— " There's a small pause, Vlad hesitantly looking thoughtful. "Do you remember our first kiss?" ( sjkjedfkd; I COULDN'T RESIST. & Now he's glaring. :'D This can be pre-ghost or what not. Up to you! )

You ever get an idea that just inflates as you go? That was this. And then it grew into me giving the flashback scene some more context. STORY TIME ANYONE?!

Which just ended up turning into lore for my Brainiac² AU meshed with my Ghost Stan AU. In terms of the flashback though, Stan and Vlad have been hanging out after meeting at some sort of paranormal seminar hosted by Jack which was open to anyone willing to learn about ghost and other weird phenomenon. It reminds Stanley of Ford who, in my Brainiac AU, had a really bad falling out with Stanley after their principal told Stanford how he was gonna go places while Stan was just gonna be a bum. No one even questioned it and as much as Stan stood up for and took his for Ford he just sat there? Nah. So anyway, Stan ends up at this seminar partially thinking that it was for kicks or whatever, but ends up sort of intrigued especially with how bombastic Jack is. From there he ends up confronting Jack and asking questions and stuff. He also meets Maddie and Vlad. He seems to hit it off with the trio well enough and ends up coming around their campus since he definitely does not go to WisU. He ends up migrating towards Vlad and they surprisingly hit it off for a while, Vlad talking about Maddie and how she and Jack have somehow ended up go steady (in an alteration of timed events the portal incident won't happen until later) and it's a lot of guy talk and ghost portal talk and stuff. Eventually they become like, best friends. Later on down the line, when the flashback takes place, Vlad has come to the conclusion that he like likes Stanley and if he doesn't want to mess up his chances like he did with Maddie then he would just have to act on impulse. So after spending most of the morning together, weekend no classes, they end up going for lunch at the Nasty Burger (which I definitely believe is their in-universe McDonald's and has been around since forever and has locations all over the map) and Stan's been having a rough day, his Ma called and his Pa is still a jerk and Ford hasn't been home since leaving for WCT and so now Stan is the spare who probably isn't doing much and can come visit, right? So Vlad is trying to cheer him up, telling him cheesy jokes and dumb stuff that he's done with Stan eventually doing the same; telling Vlad about Ford and his oldest brother Shermie. They end up sharing stories about stuff their brothers forced them into (in Vlad's case it'd be Jack until the portal thing) and so they're laughing and the moment presents itself and them WHAM-O, Vlad strikes and Stan short-circuits. He's also pretty sure he's bi now. So yeah anyway, um...this. xD Stan definitely remembers, and Vladdie knows it yet Stanley has the AUDACITY to try to lie directly to his face hence Vlad’s glaring. xD Be gentle, Cheese Head, Stanley might still be sort of smitten.

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[ursaspecter]

Girl help I cannot stop thinking about a BTTF au for Danny Phantom

Specifically a "what if Masters of All Time went a little different" au.

Basically Danny changes things to Vlad never gets hit by the ecto radiation from the portal but Jack still does and gets ecto-acne. What if Maddie still marries Jack and has Jazz and Danny with him, but he's very sick the whole time because the acne is slowly killing him.

(When Danny makes it back to the future in the original episode, Jack still has the acne in his human form so I guess since he's a big guy it would take longer for him to die?)

Anyway, when Danny is about 4 or 5, Jack takes a trip to go see his old pal Vlad because he may not get another chance to. Vlad is still a billionaire because he was still able to get rich without overshadowing the right people. While Jack's there, he dies under Mysterious Circumstances. Vlad tells Maddie that it was the ecto-acne finally consuming him, but Maddie doesn't buy it. Still, due to one reason or another, the Fentons are broke and Maddie is desperate, and well Vlad has an open invitation for the Fentons to share his mansion. Under one condition of course.

"You understand, Maddie, I have a reputation to keep up. If word got out that I was living unmarried to a recently widowed woman and her kids, that wouldn't look good, now would it?"

But Maddie couldn't care less about Vlad's reputation. She marries Vlad if only to provide security for her kids.

If you've seen Back to the Future part 2, then you'll already know how the rest of this goes. Danny returns to his present only to find everything is wrong. He wakes up in Vlad's mansion, finds out Vlad is his father, sees what kind of abuse Maddie has to endure, learns Jack is dead, then realizes that him changing the past caused this horrible present.

After questioning Vlad and finding out on the rooftop that Vlad actually killed Jack, Danny jumps off to avoid getting shot by Vlad, goes ghost, and goes down to Maddie's secret lab hoping to find a portal (which is there thankfully).

And that's when he gets back to Clockwork having learned his lesson about carelessly meddling with time. He sets the timeline right while also getting the antidote to save Sam and Tucker. And Vlad too I guess.

A little dark? Maybe, but we already know that Vlad really would dispose of Jack if given the chance, and well a weakened defenseless Jack at his doorstep with no other witnesses is the perfect opportunity. I'll probably make some art for this au sometime soon because I cannot stop thinking about it.

#danny phantom

[q-gorgeous]

Wish You Wouldn’t Lie

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After an argument with her now grounded son, Maddie wishes that Danny wouldn't lie to her-and Desiree overhears. prompt by @ectopal

word count: 1184

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“Danny, for the last time, where were you?”

Danny growled. “I was just late getting home! There’s not much else to it.”

Maddie pulled her phone out of her suit pocket to check the time, and turned the screen to face it towards Danny. “It’s two hours past curfew! That’s not just ‘late getting home’. By that point that’s a conscious choice, and even if it wasn’t, if you’d actually carry your phone on you when it wasn’t broken, you’d know what time it was!” 

“I don’t know what you want from me when I’m telling you the truth!” Danny threw his hands into the air. 

“I want you to tell me the actual truth!” Maddie yelled. “I wish-”

Danny’s ghost sense went off. “Mom, wait-”

She gave him a look and continued anyway. “I wish you wouldn’t lie to me.”

She watched Danny shiver and look around the living room with a look on his face similar to Jack’s when he’s searching for something in the lab. 

“Danny.” She said sternly. Danny’s gaze traveled back over to her, his posture tense. “Why were you so late coming home?” He stood and stared at her a bit, his lips pursed together before his voice finally spilled out.

“You wanna know why I’m always late coming home and missing curfew?” He asked and Maddie nodded. “I’m Danny Phantom and I’ve been fighting ghosts for the past three years and they don’t exactly follow my office hours.”

They stared at each other for a few moments before Maddie scoffed.

“That isn’t funny. I said I wanted you to tell me the truth, not tell me a joke.”

He ran his hands angrily through his hair. “It is the truth!”

“If it’s the truth why wouldn’t you have told us before now?” Maddie shouted. “You realize how that’d be such a convenient excuse right?”

“I wouldn’t have told you before now because you are ghost hunters! You hunt ghosts! You hurt and dissect them, and have talked about wanting to dissect me! And, maybe, I’m telling you right now because you let the w-i-s-h words slip when there’s regularly a genie ghost in town!”

Maddie just looked at him in disbelief, disappointment on her face. 

Danny stared right back into her eyes. “Fine. I’ll prove it.”

A bright flash of white appeared around his waist and Maddie stumbled back as she watched the rings travel around her son’s body. Phantom’s jumpsuit appeared underneath them and Maddie could finally see the very familiar stitching on it. She stared at him in horror. 

The rings disappeared and Phantom stood in front of her, an angry expression on his face.

“I’m gonna go catch that ghost.”

He turned intangible and flew through the ceiling and away from the house.

Maddie stared at where he disappeared, panic starting to rise. What happened to her son? Did he die? Was he dead? Did Phantom do this to him? How was this even possible?

She ran and grabbed an ecto-gun and hurried out the front door, slamming it behind her. Who knows how hurt he could get! Actually, she knew very well how hurt he could get. 

Guilt flooded her stomach and she started running up and down streets, checking the ghostly hot spots in town. She ran past the high school without stopping. The ghosts never bothered with showing up there when school wasn’t in session, so Danny wouldn’t be there.

She ran through downtown and to the park when she saw it. A light glow sitting on a picnic table near a tree. As she got closer, she could Danny sitting on the table with his knees pulled up to his chest, face tucked into them. 

Maddie slowed to a walk, trying to get her breathing under control before walking up to him. She reached a hand out to him before hesitating but finally placed a hand on his shoulder. 

He tightened up further at the contact, hands gripping his arms tightly.

“Are you going to dissect me?” Danny whispered. 

Her heart broke at the sound of his voice, how defeated it sounded.

“Dear, no. Danny.” Maddie pulled him toward her and into a hug. 

All the tension in his body slipped out and he wrapped his arms tightly around Maddie. His breath hitched and Maddie could hear him sniffle as he started to cry. 

“I’m sorry.”

“Oh, Danny.” She ran a hand through his hair. “You don’t have to apologize for this.”

“Why?” He looked up at her. “I lied to you guys for years.” She wiped a tear off of Danny’s face. “It’s like what those posts online say. Don’t come out unless you know you’re safe or have stability to be on your own.”

“That’s different though.” Danny said.

“That it is.” She whispered. 

They sat in silence for a moment before Danny spoke up again.

“I got that ghost. She’s in the thermos now so her powers wore off.”

“That’s good.” Maddie took a deep breath. “I think it’s time we head home. You need some sleep and we can all talk about this tomorrow.”

“Yeah.” Danny stood up, rubbing the back of his neck. “There’s a lot you guys need to know about now I guess.”

“It can wait until your dad’s awake. But when we get home, I don’t want to find out that you went off into the night again chasing something. Wake one of us up instead.” They started walking out of the park.

“But mom-”

“No buts.” Maddie cut him off. “This should never have been your responsibility. You’ve been doing this since you were, what, fourteen?” Danny nodded. “This is something your father and I should have been more vigilant about, but clearly we weren’t doing a very good job with our work.”

“But some of the ghosts are so strong. What if you got hurt?” 

Maddie stared at him with wide eyes. “What if we got hurt? What about you, Danny? A teenager should not have to go through everything we saw Phantom go through. What we put you through. It’s not your responsibility to keep your parents safe. It’s the other way around.”

“It feels like my responsibility.” Danny mumbled. “I was the one who turned the portal on. If I hadn’t none of the ghosts would be here.”

Maddie stopped him and grabbed Danny by the shoulders. “Did you build the ghost portal?”

Danny’s brows furrowed. “No.”

“Was it your idea to build it?”

“No?” Danny sounded confused. 

“It would have eventually turned on. Your dad and I could have figured out what was wrong, we could have taken it apart and built it again. It would have been turned on at some point. It’s not your responsibility, it’s ours.”

Danny was silent for a moment. “I guess.”

They walked up to the front of their house and Maddie opened the door. Danny transformed back into his human form and began heading up the stairs.

“Well, I'll see you tomorrow then.” Danny said.

“Goodnight Danny.” Maddie waved at where he stood on the steps.

He smiled. “Goodnight, mom.”

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