There was a boy walking towards the invading army.

There was a civilian child walking towards the invading army from the infinite realms lead by their tyrannical ruler. The Justice League tried to stop force their way through, save the boy.

Instead of that, however, they were blocked by multiple ghosts, all hellbent on not leaving them alone. Superman tried to get close to the kid? Piles upon piles of ghosts knocked him back. Wonder Woman? The same thing happened.

The thing was, that wasn't even the ground army who did it. But the ones in the sky.

So the kid was walking towards an entire army by himself. One hellbent on taking over Earth and have no qualms about ending the short life of a human boy.

Instead of watching a child die, a life they failed to save. Something else happened.

The army parted for him.

Just as Moses parted the Red Sea, the same happened with the ghosts. They made a clear-cut line for him to walk straight towards their king with no obstacle, even clearing the way of anything that could pose as one.

Again, the Justice League tried to go down to drag the boy away, only to again be denied by the ghosts flying through the sky. Only to stop chasing as soon as they retreated a certain distance.

The ghosts stood still, and only moved as they got close, unlike their previous acts of causing havoc and mayhem. So, the Justice League, as much as they didn't want too, stood still and watched.

The boy stood at a stop before the king, painfully tiny in comparison to the massive ghostly tyrant standing before him with his arms crossed.

"Yo, dad." The boy said, and the Justice League froze in shock.

===

"Yo, dad." Danny lifted a hand up in greeting, before dropping that hand to rub at his neck. "Funny seeing you here, I guess."

"Phantom..." Pariah Dark's voice was soft yet booming and seemed to echo throughout the battlefield. "We meet once again on the field of battle, come to challenge me again, little one? Without your armor, no less?" Pariah tilted his head to the side slightly, questioning.

"Oh that? Yea that got destroyed ages ago," Danny shrugged, as if not having it didn't bother him at all. "Parents couldn't exactly, you know, finish it. Plus, they had other things to work on, so they just decided to scrap the thing altogether." He put his hands in his pockets and shrugged again. "So, yea..."

Pariah looked the boy over, his eyes hardening and he clicked his tongue at what he saw.

"You come here, not with armor," Pariah began, strength in his voice and a fire (literally) in his eyes. "Nor a weapon, or a shield, and no allies of any kind-"

"Well those guys are there" Danny pointed behind him, straight at the Justice League.

"-Walk up to a hostile force with no gauge of their strength." But Pariah just barreled on as if the Justice League were an afterthought. "And face their leader and do not expect to come to harm!?" The Ghost King scowled, and the Justice League tensed.

But just tilted his head slightly. "Well, are you going to harm me?" He asked.

Pariah Dark blinked, then whispered. "I could, child. I could kill you." He put a strong emphasis on the word kill.

"You could," Danny nodded. "But are you going to hurt me?"

The Ghost King remained silent, but his gaze intensified.

Danny shrugged, this time with a smile. "See? You wouldn't hurt me so it's fine. Ya big softie."

Pariah's scowl intensified. "I am not soft, child."

"Oh really?" Danny leaned forward and his smile took on a more playful edge. "Then what's you're reason for visiting Earth, hmmmm?"

"To wage war and fight against this world's mightiest heroes." The Ghost King answered quickly.

"Annnnnnnd?"

The king remained silent for a moment and Danny stepped forwards before he face planted onto concrete. "C'mon, dad. Tell me the other reason you came here." Danny crossed his arms, mimicking the Ghost King's pose.

They stared each other in the eyes for a moment, before Pariah looked off the side with green dusting his cheeks. "You have not visited in 50 years, son..." He whispered, but everyone heard it.

"Hah! Knew you missed me!" Danny said shamelessly with a satisfied and smug smile.

"And your father forced me out of the realms because I upset him." Small embers started igniting themselves on the tips of the king's hair.

Silence echoed over the battlefield, before Danny burst out laughing. Pariah Dark's hair fully exploded into green fire as he reached a hand to cover his face. "Of course, alongside the shameless and cheekiness, you get Clockwork's sense of humor as well..."

The Ghost King, at least this very moment, seemed more and more like a tired dad than some fearsome, tyrannical Ghost King.

Superman repeats the conversation as it unfolds for the rest of the league.

Batman has Constantine: Any idea who this Clocwork is?

Constantine: Hum …t hat's sort of the new name for Kronos

WonderWoman: wait: So my grandfather remarried a tiranic ghost king and we have a child who looks exactly like a normal teenager?

Batman: Hummm, he talked about other parents so maybe adoption or divine shenanigans from more than two parents

WonderWoman: So I have a new uncle who is also a teenager

Shazam: the divine chat is crazy and he has a mega headache now Apparently…

Flash to GL: Isn't Kronos supposed to eat his children?

GL: Maybe it was a metaphor?

Green Arrow: … So we're not going to talk about the fact that the child made us his army in a way? bats glare?

WonderWoman: You wouldn't fight to protect a random teenager in addition to the world

Green Arrow: Ok seen like that, it follows end of bat glare

Flash pulls out an energy bar: So… what are the plans?

Batman: Gathering Information and Staying Ready

oh god sudden thought

so as per various DC social media concepts Clark has a Superman twitter where he posts left-leaning but fairly safe & tame stuff e.g. happy pride from Superman. Clark Kent also has his own twitter account where he posts his actual opinion.

what happens if uh. what happens if he forgets which account he's logged into.

scenario 1: what's clearly an official Superman post pops up on some rando journalist's twitter and is noticed before he can delete it. leads to controversy when people conclude that Superman has hired this Clark Kent person to do his social media. Clark now has to deal w the fact that everyone thinks he's Superman's social media manager. employers at the Daily Planet very confused as to why he didn't tell them about his side gig

scenario 2: world wakes up to Superman tweeting about how he hates the police

Billy, seeing what Superman just tweeted: oh cool we're allowed to say fuck the police now!!

Billy: immediately goes into an ACAB rant on the official Shazam twitter

Superman's excuse: I got hacked?

Shazam's excuse: I dropped my phone while on patrol, a young boy found it and posted it for me following Superman's message. But it’s okay because afterward he gave it back to me?

Batman: gives the "i'm not angry, i'm disappointed" look

Wonder woman: holds back laughter

elsewhere, the young justice: hoooo~ we must follow the example of our elders, right? 😈

jl invites their new member captain marvel to a black tie event and says he can have a plus one so of course billy needs to bring mr tawky tawny

cue an entrance that involves a lot of panic and screaming

who let a tiger in here?!!

@megamindsupremacy exactly

wait… do they have food limitations for felines?

someone takes away his access to alcohol in a very thoughtful but irritating doubt?

Danny was never a human.

While not exactly.

He kid of was, and kind of wasn't.

And that's not including the half-dead thing.

So during the start of Jack and Maddie's ghost hunting careers they experimented with the magic side of the world.

Then they stumbled across the ways to make something not living, alive.

And they thought 'well, this kind of involves our research, right?' Cos turning something that never lived but gets life most be some type of ghost stuff.

So they hunt down ways to make their experiment happen, from ancient texts to modern how to guides.

They checked it all.

Once their research was done, they made the body how the instructions say, with a few adjustments.

The only problem they had was that all of the recipes involved magic of some kind and neither Jack or Maddie had magic (they tested it multiple times)

So it was clear they had to get magic somehow.

And they did by stealing a magicians DNA, which was on him because he should know how dangerous it was to just leave DNA around, to be fair he probably wasn't expecting mad scientists to knock him out and take a blood sample.

And so it was added to the mixture of clay, their own blood,and the tiniest bit of ectoplasm moulded into a humanoid shape.

And finally it was the hard part.

Bringing it to life.

They took a page out of Victor Frankenstein's book and waited for a lighting storm, or in their case, a modified defibrillator.

The electricity acted as a spark to kick-start the process.

The blood formed the organs, skin, hair, and etc.

The ectoplasm breathed life into the golem, a bit too much.

Because once it was over they had a bouncing baby boy with the bluest eyes ever.

After running every test imaginable with each test confirming that the kid was human, they decided 'whelp, Jazz has a little brother now' and promptly forgot about it.

There was more exciting research to do after all.

When Danny's accident death happened it was only due to the magicians magic/ messed up luck powers and the ectoplasm in him that he survived.

Years go by and then Danny found out from reading their old notes.

His parents brushed it off saying that, yes, he was human and they loved him no matter what.

But Danny was a bit shook.

Finding out that he only existed not because his parents wanted him, but because they wanted to see if they could create.

Was he actually human? He was made out of clay for frick's sake!

And Danny handle this bombshell with grace and- he ran.

He ran as far as he could as fast as he could.

And so alone in a strange city and not willing to go back, he decided to seek out the magician who was technically his third parent.

What's the worst that could happen?

So off he went to find John Constantine.

Constantine: in my defense your father is a known polymorph rapist and I like alcohol. Although I thought he was strictly into young ladies

Diana: Constantine…

Constantine: You know what? We'll ask Shazam!

Diana who is not aware of the divine chat: ???

Divine chat: *Unanimously agrees for Shazam to sleep with the dragon.*

Shazam, raising his hand: Can I sleep with the dragon?

The Justice League: *Side eye*

Vlad, the game master:...Roll.

Danny, the dragon in question: What are the chances of th-

Shazam: *Rolls a Nat 20.*

Danny:-at.

Danny:

Vlad:

Shazam: So how comfortable is it to sleep on gold?

Danny: Well, from a certain position yea, but I do have a bed-

Shazam: Sweet!

Vlad, speaking to the rest of the Justice League after Danny and Shazam left to go to sleep: You have temporarily lost a member of your party, but you have gotten past the great dragon. Now to continue on your adventure.

wonder woman knows it's her father's fault and has a furious desire to strangle him now. Especially if they know about Billy, she wouldn't be the only one. Fortunately the dragon sounds like a young teenager, so it should be good, but honestly!

Meanwhile, recent members of the Justice League wonder if all the JLD have a thing for mons-, non-humans, between… THAT and the whispers about Constantine

At long last Gotham and Metropolis finally have something new to beef about. Who's better? Metropolis' resident mad scientist, Daniel Fenton? Or Gotham's up and coming psychologist star, Jasmine Fenton.

Bonus points if despite the obvious relation, no one puts two and two together

Central City comes to the ring with disaster zone reporter Danielle 'Dani' Fenton

Ooh, and Dan goes to Fawcett because I can't imagine a place with vibes more opposite to his.

The locals think it's a clear case of the Cap reforming some ghost supervillain from another realm, but actually Dan instantly clocked him as a child vigilante and adopted Billy as the newest Fenton.

Billy suddenly has some Very Doting mad scientist grandparents, who actually fit Fawcett's vibes a little TOO well.

that or he has Vlad as an overly enthusiastic grandfather who doesn't hide badly his (former?) habit of being a super villain

where he has the vlad AND the fenton

Submitted Prompts #138

Billy Batson and Ellie become best friends. However, due to insufficient ectoplasm in the area, Ellie is unable to stabilize herself and is too late to go flying back to Danny like she usually does.

Hermes speaks in Billy's mind, to give Ellie his blessing. The magic from Hermes will help her keep stabilized for the rest of her life.

But. This blessing can only be applied to those who are deemed champions by the gods, separate from the champion that he is as Shazam/Captain Marvel. If she accepts this, Hermes will also be present in her mind. And, she will have to do Hermes' bidding when the time calls for it.

Ellie, who heard the explanation, accepts it. She'll deal with the consequences later.

This is a match made by Chaos itself.

Hermes is also the god of Vagabonds, Thieves, Tricksters, Luck, Trade, and Language.

This crazy bastard is the God of Gremlins and Causing Problems on Purpose because it’s funny or out of SPITE.

Elle is already Danny’s kid/sister/cousin/clone genetic relative. Letting her be Hermes chosen Champion??? This suggestion from Hermes was NOT just one of the gods being helpful this was premeditated and Hermes shooting his shot to claim the best candidate for Champion he’s ever seen.

Vlad is FUQ’D bc u know he’s guiding her to get her revenge in the pettiest way possible. Everyone is getting pranked, Elle is having the time of her life with her new deity buddy!!! They talk all the time!! She’s on step two of ten for convincing Danny that Hermes is totally a guy he should connect and be a follower/champion/ally with.

He’s just happy Elle is stable and seems so much happier and healthier. Sure he’ll pencil in some time to try and get to know the dude who saved his closinsisterkidgremlin.

Only thing that stops Hermes plan.

Hades gives him a disappointed uncle look as he already claimed Danny.

Ok but hear me out.

Hades and Persephone both claiming Danny because he's the epitome of balance.

Life and death in one being.

He is both of them.

Billy: Hold on a second

Hermies in Dani's head: *AOL voice* You got mail

Dani, the first time this happened: The Fuck??

Shazam: I have divine advisors? it's not new…

Little ficlet based on, like, one single scene that inspired me from this amazing post by @charlietheepicwriter7! Literally couldn't get this idea out of my head!!

Batman stared at the uniform in his hands.

The uniform consisting of red, green, gold and black colors.

The Robin uniform.

Near him, the glint of a birdarang catches his eye, the green of Damian's domino mask next to it. And the R of the Robin badge alongside the rest of his utility belt and such.

The other members of the Justice League were talking, he can faintly hear their voices echoing in his ears but can't make out any words being spoken.

The only thing he can hear were the words his son said to him when he called to inform the Justice League of any updates on his mission. It was supposed to be easy, Damian would slowly worm his way into this group of villainous teens and the Justice League would have their way in and disband it and have all their 'members' be placed away to what was their rightful punishments.

Starting with that Phantom character who has been avoiding their radars.

Damian had certainly learned at a young age the art of deception from Talia. Her ways of being an assassin slash spy to get what information she could need being passed along to their son.

Talia disowning Damian didn't change that. He was an Al Ghul, no matter what.

He was their ticket in, using the name Al Ghul instead of Wayne as he was accepted into the Phantom's gang.

But maybe... maybe Bruce miscalculated how much acceptance he was going to get by joining said gang.

"I quit." Damian's voice rang clear and loud.

There wasn't a moment to comprehend what Bruce could even say to that before Damian kept going.

"I quit this mission. I quit being Robin and I... I no longer wish to return to Gotham with you, Batman." Not even a 'Father' at the end of his sentence, just Batman.

Because that's what he always was to Damian, not 'Father' or even anything else. Just Batman.

There was some exclaims from the Justice League, Batman recalls some calling Damian a traitor and he wanted to defend his son, tell Damian to come back, anything.

But he was struck frozen in his seat.

Damian was wearing a simple black domino mask, along with a black outfit. Nothing like the outfit of someone in the League of Assassins, just something that was solely him, that he chose to wear.

The call ended at some point, whether from Damian or someone else.

Damian wasn't returning from this mission, he was staying with Phantom.

He was... accepted, it seems. In a way he never was with Bruce, and certainly not with Talia or Ra's.

Dick wasn't going to be happy about this.

As Tucker cut off the call, Damian stepped away from the screen. He… He had hoped that his… that Batman would have some sort of response to his resignation. But the man just stared frozen at him.

He didn’t see Grayson there so maybe he had a response. But he’ll never see the man’s reaction. It was then that Danny walked into his line of vision. “You doing okay Damian?” He brushed away his thought for now. “I’ll be alright.” Danny smiled. “well dinner is still being prepared but everyone banned from cooking is playing some card games.” Danny offered up his hand in invitation to hold.

It’s something he loved about the TVA. Nearly everything was his choice. How long he stayed, if he wanted a private or joined bedroom, physical touch, sparing rules, joining missions or normalish activities. Sessions with Jazz were really the only mandatory part of the group and no one was excluded, even the founders. But you could talk about what ever you wanted.

His most recent choice was how he wanted to celebrate his permanent joining the group. Lots of kids liked to throw a party. Piñatas were popular, usually an ex-mentor or their nemesis. Dancing with a horrendous amount of junk food was often included. Game nights were common too, they were grander then the recurring game nights

Damian though wanted a sit down dinner with a movie afterwards.

Damian took Danny’s offered hand and followed him out to the big decorated living room. Cards were fun, at first they played Blackjack. But quickly they switched to uno because people didn’t want to bet anymore. Damian quite happily took his earnings, he even got a gadget someone had bet.

The Dinner had a focus on vegetarian and vegan dishes. Dinner was a blast and Damian was sat at the head of the table as it was his celebration. He definitely wouldn’t mind having more dinners like this: tension free full of chatter and laughter.

By the time everyone was ready for the movie they were all a bit tired. Damian had pondered over what movie he’d chose. In the end he chose Castle in the Sky. So settled in a large bean bag with Danny, he watched the start of the move.

An odd feeling of peace settles over him.

They all pull back sort of awkwardly. Danny reaches a hand out to help him up while rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly.

Danny: Sorry dude. We thought you were here to hurt him.

Nightwing: Ok. So. Can I speak to him alone please?

Danny: ...... If Damian is ok with that yes.

Damian:... I would like for Phantom to be there. At first at least.

Nightwing: Ok. Ok. That's fine.

Dick is hopeful and hurt. Because baby bat asked Dr him not o be hurt! But it seems like he does fully trust him right now. Which, ow. First thing he does once the three are in a separate room is grab him in a hug.

Nightwing: I am so sorry. I didn't know he was sending you away! I can't believe him!

Danny: Yeah. Maybe tell him not to send kids on under cover operations in future. We will not take it well. I can't believe Batman is just as bad as half the bloody villains with his side kicks.

Damian: Yes well. Apparently trusting the son he had with an assassin is impossible for him.

Nightwing:..... Great. Just great. First he gets little wing killed. And gets pissy when he comes back angry. Then Red loses a spleen. And now he's run you off. If I still over with him I'd be hunting him for sport.

Danny: You swear you won't try to guilt trip Damian back? Cause I don't want to have to hurt to t protect him. But I will. He's my little brother now.

Nightwing: Hah! Good. I'm glad he has that! No. If Damian is happy. Just.... It's cool if I visit right?

Damian: Perhaps not as a hero? Or wel, not acting as one. No bugs. No trackers.

Nightwing: I can agree to that. Phantom, thanks for helping the other teens. I'm glad that have you.

Danny: Yeah well. I wasn't actually a villain. Until I had no choice. So I figured there were others like me. Might as well help em out.

Damian: Phantom was the hero of Amity Park. But being non human? They decided he wasn't.

Nightwing:... None of the League even spoke to you did they? I'm punching all of them.

Danny: I mean. You could always join the darkside! We have cookies. And cuddle piles.

Cookies and cuddle piles? And Damien, of course. That might actually tempt Dick away!

Nightwing like.... That's.... Do I have to be a villain? Like do I have to hurt people?

Danny:.... When was the last time anyone here harmed a civilian?

Nightwing: ..... I take it the building you blew up wasn't in fact a government operation?

Damian: It was. One that focuses on the capturing and experimentation on sapient beings.

Danny: So, government sponsored monsters. You know how it is!

Nightwing: I need all the information you have on this branch. So I can subtly lead the League to their unethical practises.

Danny: Dude. He's literally working with them. The GIW? The ones who called me a villain? Yeah them.

Nightwing:.... Hm.

Damian: Ah. I have been warned about that face. Nightwing. Remember to consider if you will regret the consequences.

Nightwing: Nope. Guess I'm going darkside! Should be fun!

Sam:.... Holy shit. Have we managed to nab three of Batman's kids?! He's gonna hate us so much!

Jazz: Then he shouldn't have supported genocide!

My favorite thing about that and the original thread is it’s peak actions have consequences

Ones that not even the league can undo

Basically the league fucked around and now they’re finding out and I love it!!

Nightwing stormed into the meeting room on the watchtower, radiating anger so strongly everyone leaned away from him. Batman clearly expected the punch that was thrown at him. He rolled with the blow to lessen the damage that would be caused, but allowed it to land.

Nightwing: So we support experimentation on sapient beings now do we? We support hurting teens? We support fucking genocide? Since when?!?! I quit, effective immediately. You won't see me again unless Baby bat wants to be escorted to visit you!

Superman: Genocide? What genocide?

Nightwing: Oh let me guess. Doesn't count cause they're ghosts right. That makes it ok to kidnap and torture them?

Wonder Woman: Nightwing. Please. We don't know what you are talking about?

Nightwing: The GIW. They aren't doing catch and release. They aren't arresting them. They are kidnapping them. And hurting them. They made laws so it's legal. You didn't do the research. And people are getting hurt, badly. Like I said. I quit.

No one tried to stop him as he left. They knew how he could be when angry. He would just get worse. And keeping a bat locked up? Not easy. Batman let his face fall into his hands and sighed deeply.

Batman: Three of my boys now. Three. We have to fix the law and the GIW at least. Likely won't get the TVA to break up. But it might help soften them.

Superman:.... I can't believe we missed that. What the hell.

Flash:.... We really should have dragged someone from JLD along. Fuck.

when it's The Flash which must remind us of the existence of the magician/JLD, you know there was a big problem somewhere.

When does the JLD learn of the existence of the laws and the GiW? he asks the league for at least one of their detectors.

AND

surprise surprise~ almost all their members react to this, but not only that, some members of the JL too

Constantine, positive: well, I guess anything that sounds positive is banned from the United States for a while. Well I guess some will crash with me and billy has the house of mysteries time to turn around

Shazam post revelation, positive because champion of Magic, with a capital M, which also counts the magic of death: How am I going to be able to justify this at school?!?

Superman who had been super dead, positive but in denial: let's calm down, it must just be a problem with the detector maybe-

Constantine: I'll stop you there, superdude. You do what you want. But I won't take the risk of having less rights than a white mouse. Good luck protecting uncle sam from supernatural stuff mister big blue. I'm out

Short DPXDC Prompts #992

Billy has a bit of trouble figuring out the new addition to the Vásquez home. Danny Fenton is a really nice guy and all, but he’s just a really closed off dude. He’s hiding something.

His new brother is strange, nothing remarkable, but lots of little things added

He is very very modest, only changes in a locked room. And even managed to get excused from the swimming pool

He doesn't like to be touched, even less directly skin to skin, and he's always cold, nothing out of the ordinary, but it's always the case, even in the middle of summer or after sports class.

He jumps strongly at the slightest static shock

He always criticizes the Justice League as a "virtuous group", but defends individually hero as an imperfect individual. He is particularly vocal about the injustice that Martian Manhunter had to change his traditional Martian appearance for a more human one or about the United States' attempts to control the league.

And then when the other child says "that it's great to live in a world of superheroes", he's more of the type "that it's sad to live in a world that needs superheroes ..."

all that and… Danny tends to look at him sadly when Danny thinks he's not paying attention, especially when he comes back late because of his hero obligations

Short DPXDC Prompts #967

Danny has issues with a magic user messing up Amity Park. He has no idea how to combat magic. Clockwork leads him towards the greatest magic user ever for help: The Champion of Magic, Shazam. 

I propose that it is a very alcoholic Constantine who tries to do the right thing but between the Fenton parents and the GiW who walks around with ectoplasmic batteries and detectors which disrupts his protections. It's a hair's breadth from disaster

DP/DC WEEK DAY TWO

prompts for November 15th. @avaritia-apotheosis

My Masterlist of DP/DC Prompts

Mistaken Identity:

It's tough gaining respect from new League members when they find out one of their superiors is a 14-year-old:

Mistaken Identity & It's tough gaining respect from new League members when they find out one of their superiors is a 14-year-old:

And it's Danny, so of course he forgot to mention he could do that. By this point some of the Leaguers are probably considering setting up a night where they all just get together in a training room and having Danny try to use whatever powers they can think of for a couple hours.

There are only two hiccups with this plan. One is that they're gonna need to convince Superman to let them use a room in the fortress of solitude; nowhere else will be safe/isolated/sturdy enough to let Danny not worry about cutting loose

Second is that, due to how he formed as a Halfa with a massive influx of *unshaped* Ecto, Danny is basically the only ghost to ever reach the final stages of core development before having any defined shape or characteristics beyond "I don't want to die." Since his original core reason for not dying was not wanting to die, anything that supports that desire is acceptable to his core, and can be absorbed and mimicked. In other words, if he can grock a power, he can use it, and after working with the league and having telepathic connections to most of them through Martian Manhunter, he's indirectly experienced all of their powers on an instinctual level and is capable of using *ALL* of them. The league is in for a hell of a shock, as is Danny who's poor ADD AF brain already couldn't keep track of what he could do.

Once he realizes the trick available to him now though, that he's got so many powers it's best to assume he can do LITERALLY ANYTHING, and just try, the JLA is in for a wild ride. Hell, the ghost zone is on for a wild ride. As is Darkseid, pretty much any villains, the Presence and Lucifer, and the Living Tribunal and The One Above All if Danny gets bored enough.

wait a minute;

If Danny learns all the abilities of the people he is mentally linked with… when he is linked with Shazam… he can now also say shazam and change (like the rest of the family)?

And if Shazam is also in constant contact with the "gods" (or less so when he is in hero mode) is Danny copying the ability to connect to the "gods"? or is he copying the abilities of the "gods"? or both?

Paranormal Department

Something strange was happening in the world, something that even the League would not have prevented. It seemed that the United States government had been fighting things they didn't stand a chance with, and this almost ended in disaster if it wasn't for the kindness of what they were dealing with. The details were highly classified and encrypted so Batman didn't know the details and it was frustrating him.

All that trouble resulted in Justice League Dark working steadily with the "Paranormal Department", there wasn't much information on their members and they worked in the shadows (Bruce wasn't amused, he needed contingency plans) but Zatara claimed they were excellent allies, despite their strange use of modern technology.

Bruce didn't know what they were about, or what agreement the president had made, but he didn't trust this "new department". They could betray them at any second. That's why when Constantine informed him that they would take over the "Lazarus pits" he flatly refused. Apparently his refusal didn't matter at the end since the "Department" got jurisdiction over the case.

Team Phantom, which was now headquartered in downtown Amity Park (and had many new members like Paulina and Dash) was having fun pissing off the Bat. While Danny had made an agreement with the government to deal with threats from the Realms, one of the clauses was not to tell the heroes they existed (After years of living with the Fenton's Danny was not amused that anyone knew ways to eliminate him, Clockwork was backup enough). Sam thought it was childish but didn't stop him.

Sam handled all the legal stuff, but it seemed like they had jurisdiction over all the cases that interested them (more than JL, since they were an elite team in that field), and no one could reveal their identities, which relieved Danny greatly.

Their main job was to send the ghosts home and close the rifts, plus deal with demons, or creatures that came out of said rifts. Easy enough for them, but probably extremely risky if you were inexperienced. Honestly, since they dealt with the GIW themselves, Danny didn't trust the heroes, however JLD was fine.

JLD must love them

What if there was a shrine for Phantom in JLDs headquarters

They could sacrifice mugs of coffee or green rock candy or something as thanks for keeping the JL off of their cases

#everything is so much more efficient with them around#no more heros sticking their noses where they don’t belong#JLD and PD have a mutual dislike for the JL#Shazam is their insider

They know they don't HAVE to do that. But it's fun. And hey, this group of 19-21 year olds are GOOD at what they do. Work is SO much easier. Especially now they can access the Infinite Realms to look for information and gossip. And some of the ghosts love them. Think JLD are the best thing to happen in centuries. They are just so cute, look at the humans go!

Shazam is absolutely their insider. He works pretty evenly with both teams. And he hates it when JL try to do magic stuff. Diana is the only one he sort of trusts to do it. The rest should keep their grubby hands to themselves! We have a team of specialists for a REASON Batman!

Batman seeing this go down from tbe shadows and is tearing his hair out because he just KNOWS the JLD is somehow involved with the so-called Paranormal Department and he is not having it

Batman hates it. Hates that he has no power or information. That this is sealed by order of the President. I am thinking for this one Danny rocked up to the President and slammed down files from the GiW. And basically said. My people could kill every world leader whenever we wanted. You declared war on another dimension with this law. Fix it or we will accept. Here is my offer for if you choose peace.

Batman has no way of getting information either. He can't find an traces anywhere. No origin, no history. He is going round in circles, and Constantine is smirking at him!

Batman is so close to a mutiny at this point. Just. Why won't they let him know anything?

John just shakes his head sadly and sighs.

" Bats. Ya ain't got the first clue about the paranormal. Leave it ta the experts ok. They might be young. But they grew up in it. Leave em be. "

Wait... isn't Wonder Woman part of the JLD??? Like, I think there was a comic where she actually led them...

That wouldn't help any. She would also not be allowed to tell Batman anything. And she loves teasing him. So she would just sigh softly. Pat him on the shoulder.

WW: Oh my friend. They are good people. Young, but they have already averted an inter dimensional war! They only have the best of intentions. Do leave them alone hmm?

Which, will send him spiralling faster. There was nearly and inter dimensional war?!?!?! When! Why did, teens? Probably teens right, maybe early 20's. Why did they have to stop it! Diana! Get back here! Do they need adults!

Diana you KNOW he has anxiety and control issues! Come back!

The first time he gets a clue? Is from Talia. She was away when the department rolled over the LoA. So her and a few other members? Are the only ones not locked in specialised prisons. The pits have all been gotten rid of.

Talia ends up going to Gotham, thinking he must have done something. Surely! American sarcastic young adults? Clearly the bats!

Bruce sighs and is like... I lost jurisdiction over the case.

Which, is shocking to Talia. How did this happen? Her beloved The Batman? Lost jurisdiction over a case? How?

And working together in the ruins of the League base. They find a note left behind for any assassins that were away. Stating they have a way to track them. And it would be preferable if they simply handed themselves in.

Both of them are confused. And a little annoyed. But! But! This might be a lead! (It isn't. None of the team are stupid enough to go after a LoA member when they are being stalled by the bats. )

No. instead! While Batman is busy stalking the left over assassins? They swoop into Gotham and steal all the death touched people. Steal the Talons. Grundy. And Red Hood.

Jason? After a good cleanse and health check? Allowed to go back. The rest are packed off to the Realms.

Jason will not speak a word of what happened. He's enjoying this too much. B, they played you. They played you like a cheap kazoo. Get over it.

if in this timeline the JL by discovering billy's age decides to ban shazam from JL, then he will just shrug his shoulders, the JLD keeps him and if the JL also manages to do it from the JLD then he will go to the DP and not will NOT be silent about it

Shazam could even be their spokesperson

DPxDC Presumed Aliens Prompt

Imagine if the the Phamily fall through a portal to another world. Honestly nothing new there, and at least they're in the specter speeder. The specter speeder that has maybe crashed, but it wasn't their fault they swear! Not their fault if it got attacked, right? And maybe they're somehow kids now, but they can blame that on Clockwork right? Right. Definitely his fault. They weren't messing around with things in his Haunt and definitely didn't mess with things they shouldn't have. But really it wasn't their fault. Really. So maybe they're stuck in another world, stuck as kids, and someone has managed to open the half crushed speeder, but that would normally be fine. Honestly wouldn't be surprising with how their lives are. The thing is, they're all... akin to lil baby ghosts in shape, and their world's human language evolved differently to this worlds. What do you mean the heroes in this world think they're baby aliens???

So I’m sure people have ideas of their own on who finds them but I want to throw my hat in the ring.

Captain Marvel/SHAZAM finds them! Here’s my reasons

Aaaaaand if they eventually get aged back up to being older teens/young adults, the Pham can return the favor and care for Billy

They even have a magical transformation like he does! They can all shift into a humanoid shape at will! Look how cute they are! Yes! His now! Totally not going to be almost impossible. Nope.

tucker: if they find me a PDA, I can give us all fake new identities, would you like a new one too Billy?

Vlad Masters. Ceo of Vladco, survivor of Ecto-acne, first halfa to have ever come into existence and brilliant scientist.

Is currently lost.

He sighed, closing his eyes for a moment before reopening them. He crouched down, before jumping up and over a nearby fence, determined to wander around in hopes of finding a solution to this perdicament.

Curse you, Jack Fenton. He didn't know how, but everything is always, undeniably that oaf's fault.

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Billy Batson dashed into a nearby alley, urging his legs to keep moving despite the burning feeling in both his legs and chest that demanded he stop. His eyes quickly scanned the alleyway, looking for anywhere to hide, or a path to continue his escape, only for despair to consume his heart.

A dead end.

A loud bark came from behind him, and he turned, blood rushing in his ears as he backed away slowly. He slowly moved his hands forward in front of him, a weak, fearful smile on his face. "E-Easy there, doggies. We can, we can talk this out. Yea?"

The biggest of the three dogs currently chasing him stepped forward, and he stepped back. The dog was all skin and bones, so much so that its ribs were clearly on display, the two smaller dogs behind it weren't faring much better, and only looked to have just a bit more meat on their bones than the one in front. The dog growled lowly, taking another step forward, while Billy took another step back.

"Ok uh, just- just wait a second okay...?" Billy slowly reached a hand up to the strap of his old bag and lifting it from his back. He slowly unzipped it and reached inside, digging around while keeping his eyes straight on of the dog in front of him, his hand hit his desired object and he slowly pulled it from his bag, before throwing it in front of the dog.

The dog sniffed the object, before taking the pack of jerky and slowly walking backwards, eyes trained on the human in front. Billy felt like crying.

That was supposed to be my lunch and Dinner...

The dog threw the pack of jerky over its shoulder, and the two dogs behind didn't waste a moment before ripping open the packaging and chowing down on the jerky inside. With each and every chomp, Billy felt more and more like he would cry. From his position, he could see the amount being reduced down to the single digits under seconds, before the two dogs stopped eating, instead licking the crumbs from the packaging and then raising their heads to bark happily, causing Billy to almost smile.

Almost.

If he weren't lamenting over the fate of his lunch and dinner for the next few days being gone in under 10 seconds.

The dog in front barked again, taking another step forward and Billy flinched. "Oh, oh! Uh, I'm sorry but I don't have anything else. So, so uh." Billy take another step backwards, cold sweat running down his face as he felt his back hit the wall. "So how about you guys, you know, leave me alone now?" He squeaked out.

The biggest dog growled lowly before, with surprising speed, ran forward and sank its teeth into Billy's bag. "He- HEY! Wait!" Billy struggled to both pull the bag back into his arms and not cause it to tear at the same time.

Unfortunately, very difficult to do in this situation.

"How are you so strong!?" Billy nearly sobbed, he's losing to a dog! "I only have one of these you know!? So let go already!" Billy held onto his bag's straps for tear life, struggling to gain more ground in this tug of war, before the sound of leather starting to tear reached his ears.

"My bag!" Billy tug his feet into the ground, finally succeeding in gaining from ground when he readjusted his hold from the straps to the top of it, before the other two dogs joined in.

He thinks he's going to lose a bag.

"Meow."

All movement ceased. The sound of struggle being replaced by silence as both human and dog(s) looked for the source of the sound.

"Meow."

They looked up, and a singular (extremely fluffy) black cat with fully red eyes stared back. The two younger dogs whined, ears lowering as the biggest began to growl.

"Meow." The cat meowed for a third time, staring down the three dogs intensely. The smaller dogs instantly let go, and fearfully backed away while the biggest ears lowered, yet their teeth was still lodged into Billy's bag.

"Meow." It meowed once more, fixing the biggest dog with the full brunt of its stare, and paralyzing it from fear, before a few seconds later it let go of the bag and backed away, turning around and barking at the two smaller dogs as they ran away from alleyway.

Billy blinked, staring at the retreating backs of the dogs until he couldn't see them, in disbelief. He stared back up at the cat, who licked the back of its paw and raised it up to its head to groom its fur. Billy quickly stared at its neck, seeing the lack of a pet collar of any kind.

"Meow." The cat stared at him with one open eye, and Billy jolted. "Oh! Uh! Thank you!" Billy nodded his head in thankfulness, before staring at his bag. "Oh right. My bag."

Billy felt like crying. Staring down at the nearly broken bag covered with bite marks. Actually, scratch that.

So he started crying.

Vlad didn't get a cat, he became one! 😂

Cue Redemption Arc or something when he 'begrudgingly' starts taking care of this kid

oh my gods, that reminds me of this show where the hero transformed into an animal had to do 100 good deeds to find his human body

I can see Vlad doing one too many naughty acts and having this curse

But he refuses to serve the people of Amity Park and risk being detected by a Fenton

So here he is at Fowcett ready to do these good deeds of general interest and hoooo, a kid in trouble, and he must just be intimidating for his first good deed~

Short DPXDC Prompts #920

Billy Batson did not expect to be spotted turning into Shazam by a gloomy goth girl who was hanging out in the alleyway he dove into to magically change. Frightened of the possible repercussions, Shazam simply fled. No time to cover up his tracks, the situation he needed to attend to was urgent. After the fight Billy went to a diner to celebrate his victory in defeating Mister Mind once again. He felt like an ostrich sticking his neck in the dirt, avoiding the very important task of tracking down that goth girl who spotted him in the alley. Lucky for him he didn’t even need to find her, as he looked up from his burger and fries he spotted her walking towards his booth. “Hi, I’m Sam. We need to talk”

sam, sees a boy with dark hair light eyes in a struggling position changing into his secret alter ego: Well I can’t not Big Sibling him

sam: huh? a second nickel? so fast?

DPxDC Prompt

If you asked anyone who knew of the Infinite Realms, they would tell you "Any trouble caused by a Realms being is solved by a Realms being, if you interfere with the Realms balance you better be prepared for every God, Old and New to turn on you" Unfortunately for the Justice League, they didn't ask anyone who knew about the Realms when the United States government came to them about a rogue spirit that has been causing destruction across the mid western states. With the anti-ghost tech given to them by the government and the Fenton's, they took down the threat promptly, containing the spirit within a device they now keep on the Watchtower. (due to not trusting the government with it) It wasn't long after that the more super powered heroes started noticing their powers weakening. Superman could no longer feel the sun as strongly, Wonder Women could feel her godly power distancing itself from her, the Flash was slowing down. They couldn't figure out what was causing it, but the longer it went on they began to notice a change in those without powers as well. Batman didn't blend into the shadows as seamlessly anymore, Arrow's aim wasn't as accurate. They had taken the Crown Prince of the Infinite Realms hostage and in doing so have fallen out of the Gods favors. The longer they keep the Prince captive, the more the weakness and back luck becomes dangerous for them. The Gods have never been very patient

I wonder what happens to Billy:

Are Shazam just disappearing overnight from their point of view?

Is he physically no longer able to approach another superhero who was involved?

Does Billy destransform when one of the heroes involved asks for help?

Are the gods told him why this happens?

Does it transmit the information?

And if he says it, is it the whole JL or just the JLD?

He stuck on the rock as Billy.

Poor Billy, he must be so hungry :( The "gods" had warned her to buy food reserves before asking her to go to the rock of eternity but still… whatever… how did the wise man in his quest to find the next chosen one ? there is one of the thousand doors that leads into the interior of a restaurant or something?