Prompt 154
Danny is very displeased. He’s going to bite Clockwork and complain his ear off because this is just utter bullshit.
He’s stuck as a baby, which isn’t his fault. Okay so maybe it was a little bit his fault, but no one had told him not to touch the thing! And Clockwork is apparently too busy to fix his situation. Personally Danny is pretty sure he’s just enjoying being able to carry him around, what with the purr-buzzing and all that.
Which okay, it’s kind of nice and is making him kind of sleepy but still! He’s supposed to be angry about this situation and biting at his hands! Which he shall continue to do! … after this nap, it’s been a while since he was able to get some proper sleep.
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Okay whoever just woke him up is going to have to catch his itty bitty baby hands! At least Clockwork looks just as unimpressed as he is now, and the people around the summoning circle look confused- save for a trenchcoat dude who looks horrified.
John looked at the beings summoned and immediately backed away from the cultists. The other heroes followed suit. When John backs off? That is never a good sign. The fact that the summoned being looked irritated? Not good. Hopefully they can be reason.... Is that a baby? Did these idiots summon a parent and child? Oh. Ok, they get why John backed up.
“We want to speak to the Ghost King!”
Clockwork just holding out baby Danny by his armpits. “Here he is, say what you want to say quickly so that we can leave, you interrupted naptime and are throwing off his entire schedule.”
Danny uses his tail to wrap around Clockworks arm and start biting his fingers. Then glared at Trench coat dude. He does not want to answer questions.
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Now I’m craving a peanut butter and bacon milkshake. My friends always think I’m weird for ordering them when we go to Sonic Drive-in, but they are my favorite. Nobody gets me like Danny gets me. 😘
bonus points if Diana is there and in a horrified whisper says "Who gave Uncle Chronos a baby?"
Just gonna respond to both of these.
Clockwork is, of course, slightly disappointed his ghostling is going to skip the rest of his naptime. He had rather been enjoying simply holding his ghostling as he slept. The joy of lovingly holding his sleeping child had been denied him in life. By himself of course, his own actions when he was Kronos. Though he has only himself to blame for missing out on that joy in life, he still thinks it fair to be displeased at having that chance now disrupted.
Of course, being the embodiment of Time, Clockwork is well aware he will have plenty of it ahead to indulge. Danny is too young to understand right now, even were he still 14. But the alignment of his ghost age and his physical age is a necessity for his continued health and growth as a halfa. His ghostling will forgive him some day. For now, Clockwork has time.
Still, Clockwork is perfectly content to leave the reckless speedster to face the consequence of giving a baby godling that much sugar in one sitting. Though, perhaps as a courtesy, he should warn his granddaughter and her other teammates. Then again, by the emotions flitting through his proto-core, the Batman is already realizing what a mistake the Flash is making. Perhaps Clockwork need not point it out at all.
Batman reading the situation. Calculating the data and just sighs. Flash is probably the only one who will be able to maintain the necessary energy levels to keep up. But he will probably need help. He should message the rest of the Flash family to go help Barry. This is going to be a good lesson on resisting small helpless looking creatures at least.
Constantine, eyes bugging at that bit of info: Reverted to his death age!? You mean he isn't just hundreds of years old and stuck like that cause he died young!?
CW, unimpressed with the soul whore's deductive skills: Was his youth not already obvious by my behavior? Have I not been clearly trwating him as the ghostling he is.
Constantine, still wigging it and now mildly offended: He looks 2! How long had he been dead when he fought Pariah Dark!?
CW, proudly and fondly: Just a few months and already powerful enough by then. But, oh how it tuckered him out. Here's a picture of him taking a nap on Pariah's throne after the battle. He was so worn out, Samhain had to carry him there to rest for a bit before Plasmius was allowed to return Phantom to his haunt in the Finite Realm.
The image Clockwork produces shows a young, possibly prebuscent teen curled up on the cushion of a throne fit for a Titan. In the background, a black armored Knight stands at attention with one arm held out preventing a disgruntled vampiric looking ghost from approaching the throne.
WW: He must be a very strong warrior to have accomplished such a feat so young. From what Constantine has told us, Pariah Dark was no threat to be trifled with.
CW: Stronger than he has yet to realize. And smarter than he would yet believe.
Batman, peering at that pictures: He looks quite small. How old was he when he... died?
CW: It was his 14th birthday. But there is little need to mourn him, Dark Knight of Gotham. Young Phantom is as alive as he is dead. This is why his age had to be reverted. The discrepancy between his living and death ages would have done both sides of him great harm if left be for a few decades.
Batman, with a sudden, knowing smirk: I'm sure your proactivity in the matter has no ulterior motives at all.
CW, bemused: All is as it should be.
A small black and white blur blasts through the warehouse, giggling as he goes and creating a brief wind strong enough to knock over a couple of still frozen cultists. The small blur is pursued by a red one begging him to slow down, then a yellow one and a white one laughing as they trail behind. Between blinks, a new photo appears in Clockwork's album; a perfect still frame of the moment just passed showing the giggling toddler, frantic Flash, laughing Kid Flash and Impulse, and the now knocked over cultists mid-topple.
Batman, without a word, offers Clockwork a wallet so he can put photos of Phantom in it.