Ch.1: 5 Years Later…
Be-Beep! Be-Beep! Be-Beep!
Batman opened his holo-computer as the alarm went off. His nine-year-old adopted son, Danny, looked over his shoulder curiously. The screen read 'Happy New Years'.
A faint smile twitched on the Dark Knight's face. "Can you tell me what that says, Danny?"
"Happy New Years!" Danny sung into his ear, peridot eyes gleaming. Batman hummed in confirmation and nodded. Looking to the side, he saw a petty mugger ripping a woman's purse from her arm. As she screamed at the mugger, he began running away.
The Dark Knight nudged his kid. "Go take down your first thief of the year."
"Yeah~!" Danny squealed before eagerly hopping off the roof and flying after the robber. Batman sighed as he watched the much older robber get his butt handed to him on a silver platter by a nine-year-old.
5 Years Later…
"When do you think he'll be down?" Dick asked, looking at the other Bat-Family members around the table. They were doing their own things; playing on their phones, reading a book, eating.
"That idiot stayed up later than usual and, knowing him, he'll probably wake up and scream-" Bruce started before an anguished scream that could wake the dead rumbled through the mansion.
"I'M GOING TO BE SO LATE!"
"-about now…" Bruce finished.
"Least we know he's up." Jason commented while the others snickered around the table. Quietly, they all listened as the youngest scrambled around his room; yelling at himself, crashing into things, falling onto the floor…
"You timing him, Cass?" Stephanie asked, looking over her adopted sister's shoulder. The ebony-haired girl hummed in confirmation, looking at her phone as the timer continued to clock the teen boy.
The big family continued to listen as a door slammed open, feet thudding through the halls and down the stairs. A few more doors were slammed before the resident fourteen-year-old, Danny, flew into the kitchen, wearing a white dress shirt, black slacks, and a pair of white socks. He skidded across the slick tiles and slammed into the island before falling on his butt. Quickly as he could, he hopped back up.
"How's my timing?!" He asked his black-haired sister.
She absently looked at it before replying "It took you four minutes, thirty-eight seconds, and four milliseconds to get ready and get your sleepy arse down here."
Danny looked around, very pleased with himself. "Hm, I beat my best time by five seconds. Sweet."
"Yeah but if you don't get out of the house in… three minutes and forty-five seconds… Forty-four seconds… Forty-three seconds…" Cassie said, counting down.
"You're going to miss your ride." Damian surmised as Cassie continued to count down.
"I'm fully aware." Danny said, picking up a pancake and stuffing it in his mouth as he took his jacket off the rack and threw it on over his shoulders. He quickly buttoned it over his white shirt before grabbing a shoe and bouncing around the room, trying to get it on.
The Bat-Family shook their heads at the display.
Danny finally got both his shoes on and quickly threw his heavy bag over his shoulder. Tim held up some sheets of paper and as Danny ran by, he snatched them from the older boy's hands.
"How many do I have to redo?"
"Six."
"Aw man!" Danny whined as he rushed out the door. He ran down the hall, scanning through the sheets to see what he had to fix.
"DON'T FORGET TO GRAB SOME TOAST!" Jason yelled after him.
"YOU'RE A SICKO, JASON! TOAST IS THE ROOT OF ALL THINGS EVIL!"
The Bat-Family laughed at the response.
Robotically, Danny exited the front doors and began jogging down the driveway. There were some barks and Cujo, Ace, and full-grown Churro bounded up to him.
Danny paid them no heed as he raced to the front gate. He stuffed the homework papers in his backpack before he walked through them. He said a brief goodbye to his pets before closing the gate behind him and sprinting down the sidewalk.
Using a bench, he sprung up onto the mansion's walls and began running atop that. He checked his watch to make sure he was making good time.
"You should've gotten up earlier~!"
"Shut up, Jazz!" Danny snapped at his sister, who leisurely floated beside him as he ran. The orange-haired girl laughed while Danny rolled his eyes good-naturedly.
"You meeting up with Sam and Tucker?" The ghost girl asked. Danny nodded. "Yeah. Sam's driver is gonna take us. But I have to be there by 7:30 if I wanna ride!"
Jazz laughed. "Come on Ghost Boy. You can go faster."
Danny rolled his eyes as he hopped off the wall he had been running down, landing in a crouch. He continued to sprint on the sidewalk while his sister flew beside him.
"Will you help me with my homework tonight?" Danny asked breathlessly. Jazz thought about it for some time, irritating her younger brother, before she finally agreed. Before he raced around another corner, he stopped and gave his sister a hug. "Thanks Jazz!"
"Anytime, Little Brother. See you after school." Jazz said, returning the hug before Danny pulled away and raced around the street corner. Jazz sighed pleasantly before disappearing.
Danny skidded up to a stop in front of his waiting friends before he fell onto his knees in front of them, huffing and panting. "How's my timing?!"
Tucker smirked as he looked at his PDA. "7:29. Mr. S is about to pull the car up."
Danny threw his arms up. "I MADE IT!"
Sam and Tucker laughed as they pulled their friend up. Danny joined in and they all perked to where a car was pulled up in front of them. Sam opened the door in the back and climbed in. The two boys piled in after. They all chorused a "Hey Mr. S!"
'Mr. S' tipped his hat at them with a gentle grin. "Hello, you three."
The three in the back all chuckled before Danny pulled out his homework. "Please me with my mistakes."
"Can't we just give you the answers?" Tucker asked.
Danny shook his head. "Nope. Tim would kill me."
"Lie and said we helped you." Sam suggested, leaning back in her seat. Mr. S made a disapproving clicking sound in the front seat, to which Sam smiled sheepishly at.
Danny looked at his friend slowly. "…you can't lie in my family…"
"Why?" The other two teens asked, stretching the word at.
"Because they always find out the truth. Always." Danny said cryptically.
Sam and Tucker looked at each other from the corners of their eyes. In the front, Mr. S was laughing quietly to himself at the seriousness in Danny's voice.
"Alright, what do you need help on?" Sam asked, looking over her ebony-haired friend's shoulder.
Danny danced on the school sidewalk as he stuffed his homework in his bag. He stopped when he saw his friends staring at him. He gave them a look. "What?"
Tucker sighed before patting his friend on the shoulder. "And then you wonder why no one wants to be our friend."
Sam laughed as she and Tucker walked away. Danny just stared after them, bewildered. "What?!"
The ebony-haired wonder just sighed and jogged after his friends. He easily caught up and then engaged in conversation about what they did over break (excluding the part where Sam and Danny stayed three nights at Tucker's).
"Hey Fen-Turd!"
"Aw crap!" Danny yelled before he took off sprinting again. He easily raced up the steps of Gotham Academy as Sam and Tucker yelled something about meeting up with him after class before trying, in vain, to stall the jocks of the school. The football players merely barreled through the two, except for unlucky fellow who got Sam's combat boot in his nuts.
As Danny raced through the school, cursing the fact his first class was farther away than he would have liked, he spotted Mikey and Nathan chatting by their lockers. As he sprinted past, he grabbed their wrists, earning startled yelps from the two nerds. They were bewildered to see Danny pulling them and began stuttering out questions.
The halfa stopped beside a storage closet and, letting go of Mikey's wrist, threw open the door. He pushed the nerds in and quickly explained his doings.
"Dash is chasing me. He sees you, he'll stop chasing me. Hang out here till you hear him run by, K?" Danny asked breathlessly.
The two nerds opened and closed their mouths before Nathan mumbled "Golly gee, thanks Danny!"
The ebony-haired boy saluted with a smile before closing the door. He snapped his head down the hall when he heard Dash and his buddies. He waited long enough for them to see him before beginning his journey again down the hallway again. He easily dodged random students, muttering 'sorrys' as he did.
Dash and his goons didn't have as much etiquette and simply pushed the smaller kids out of the way.
Danny finally ducked into his first class, panting with a flushed face. Other students looked up as he entered and quickly looked down again.
Danny wasn't anything to look at.
The Ghost Boy walked to the front row and fell into a seat, leaning back and taking a deep sigh. He saw Dash wave a fist at him in the hallway and sighed again, frowning.
Danny tried getting up as his three pets dog-piled him (pun intended). He also tried to crawl away but Ace, Cujo, and Churro were right there to lick at his face and walk all over him.
"I know you love me- I mean, who doesn't?" Danny said, talking to his pets.
He heard Alfred snort at his last statement.
"And I know I'm half-ghost but I need to breath!" Danny yelled, stilling trying to claw his way out of the pile of pets.
Bruce walked in, decked out in full Batman armor but lacking his cowl. He raised an eyebrow at the scene and paused in his journey to the Bat-Mobile.
"Brucie, help me~!" Danny cried out, still failing to get away from his pets.
The billionaire rubbed his head. Danny did know he could phase, right?
"Heel!" He shouted and the two dogs and hyena stopped in their love-assault. Their beady eyes looked at the Dark Knight. He made a 'go' gesture and they whined as they got off the youngest of the Bat-Family. Danny sighed in relief and got off the ground.
"I see you got done with your homework early." Bruce said as he donned the cowl. Danny smiled and nodded, his white hair bobbing up and down.
"Yep!"
"Did one of your siblings help?" The Dark Knight asked as he resumed his venture to his car. Danny let an evil smirk slipped as he remembered Jazz.
"Yeahhh…"
Batman paused, giving his grinning son a look. Danny wasted no time in gliding by him and to the car, flashing a grin over his shoulder. The Caped Crusader narrowed his eyes but also restarted his walking.
Danny cheered on his ninja friend as the older boy, Kage, took on some mythical water creature. Both were evenly matched and Danny would have loved to help but he was going to leave that specific job to the blonde.
Kage was wearing his usual solid black outfit with red plating. Some of his blonde hair was sticking out and his blue-green eyes flashed, excited in the battle. He had his trusty katannas in his hands, using them against the mythical creature.
As Kage sent one last slice through the water spirit's liquid skin, it screamed before melting away. The ninja got up from his crouch and looked up at his younger friend. "What's the time?"
Danny looked at his phone. "You were two seconds off from beating your last score!"
Kage yelled curses to the sky while Danny laughed at him under his breath.
Danny waltzed up to his mentor, dragging one of Joker's goons behind him. The Clown Prince had gotten away but his cronies… Not so much.
"I got the last one, Chief!"
Batman nodded before turning back to his holo-computer. Danny tilted his head. "What's up?"
The Dark Knight sighed. "Hawkgirl and Flash need help in Belize with the Brain."
Danny scrunched up his face. "Belize? Seriously?"
"Yep."
The Ghost Boy began clapping sarcastically, mouthing 'wow'. As Batman called the Watchtower, he asked "Wanna come help?"
"You know I do!"
Batman gave his son a glance. "You're not skipping school.
Danny cursed. "So close."
"Not even."
"I know…"
Danny trudged through the halls of the Watchtower, very tired from his fight with the Brain. He happily walked into the common room and collapsed on the orange couch, moaning in pleasure.
Which quickly turned to a scream of pain when a small figure jumped onto his back.
"Danny! I missed you!"
The Ghost Boy smiled as he turned his slightly pained face to the blonde-haired, green-eyed four-year-old sitting on top of him, son to the famous Flash and Artemis.
"I saw you last week, Declan. It wasn't that long ago." The teen said, smiling up at his 'younger brother'.
The blonde hugged him, even though he was on the older's back and they were both lying down. "It's been forever~!"
Danny rolled his eyes at that but said nothing.
Artemis stopped and grabbed the doorway before she rushed by. "Declan, there you are!"
The four-year-old waved. "Hi Mommy!"
Danny waved as well. "Hey Arty."
The archer shook her head as she entered, ruffling the Ghost Boy's hair. "Should've known he went crawling to you."
"I'm just so special." Danny said sarcastically while Declan laughed on top of him. Artemis rolled her eyes before picking her biological son up. "Let's let Danny rest, ok Deccy? We'll see Danny tomorrow, right?"
Danny nodded in confirmation while the smaller blonde whined. Artemis smiled in amusement before looking back down at the Ghost Boy. "See you tomorrow, Chickadee."
The teen waved. "See ya tomorrow."
The two blondes left and Danny relaxed. "Sleepy time…" He mumbled as he grabbed his pillow.
"Danny, you have to go get ready for school now!"
"ARE YOU SERIOUS?!"
Do not expect every chapter to be that long.
HAPPY NEW YEARS EVERYBODY! I am back! And so is Kaddy!
Kadzait: ...hi...
...great greeting, Kad...ANYWAYS! Churro is Chichi but someone told me what the name Chichi means so I changed it! Yeah. This story is probably gonna end as soon as I hit 100 chapters (unless I decide to end it early).
And for the people who have been with me since the beginning... HOW ARE YOU PEOPLE STILL INTO THIS?! WE'VE BEEN AT THIS FOR MONTHS NOW!
Kadzait: Kodi.
WHAT?!
Kadzait: Chill.
Ok... Hug?
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YEAH! *hugs Kad back*
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