Author's note#

I'm sorry if I ruin this entire story, but you guys asked for a continuation and i decided to comply.

Updates will be sporadic, but i do have some ideas for this story muahahaha


( But Danny always comes back to save them )

When Danny woke it was with a sudden intake of breath and the widening of eyes stretched out painfully.

( He knows it was just a dream but the silence makes him wish it wasn't. )

When the Justice League had come to Amity Park they celebrated, and when they dismissed their concerns and left, it broke their hope it was just ironic that the symbol of hope superman had said the final word. Danny had stood there holding a thermos filled with ghosts, but just as he was about to release them he looked at the weariness in Batman's eyes and the tense super heroes and stopped. He'd smiled and said straight to their faces that their services were no longer needed.

The town had echoed the statement, in unison, until they were driven out.

( everyone watching the news at the time couldn't help but wonder why they listened to this one boy. Danny couldn't help but think that at least some part of the town already knew who he was, and those that didn't saw a familiar thermos in his hand. )

Unlike his dream, nothing of phantom was revealed and he was still so unbearably alive.

But he was also unbearably dead.

The only bright side was that Danny was able to negotiate a peace treaty with the ghosts after it was over. That and with the publicly dismissed threat of ghosts the laws about experimentation were easily repealed by a city wide petition ( a record breaking almost unanimous vote 'molecule by molecule' guess who didn't vote ) and Danny Phantom was proclaimed innocent, or rather, nonexistent. Even the guys in white were forced to leave as they wasted government money on an apparent hoax.

In retrospect, the peace treaty with the ghosts was a rather simple affair in the aftermath.

Ghosts could come and go as they pleased as long as no one was injured or drained of energy. Amity hadn't had the will to keep fighting after so much, not even Danny. Not even his parents. Not even if every day there's a new building to fix.

( and if soon after the Justice League gained a new ghostly member named Deadman well)

Danny just wanted it to be over, Danny had always wanted to be an astronaut.

He never asked to be a hero.

But Danny also didn't want to fully die.

One day Danny's neglectful parents always so focused on ghosts finally looked at him for the first time in years not to scold or ground him, but to ask him if he wanted to leave and stay with his uncle, Bruce Wayne and his four sons. His mother's cousin really, but their fathers were twins and Maddie had briefly stayed with Bruce when she was orphaned not long after Bruce so they considered each other siblings despite having not met up in years. In fact it was unlikely that bruce knew what he even looked like.

Danny agreed, maybe he could finally stop being a hero.

( one either dies a hero or lives to see oneself a villain

But Danny died and became a hero, so can he stop now? )

The treaty with the ghosts only applies to Amity Park though, so Danny could be attacked any time after leaving its borders.

( Why make a treaty for something that doesn't exist? let it never be said that Amity ever let their crushed hope go unpunished. Some people heard that a 'meta' named Gentlemanly Ghost or something is stealing from museums Not their problem others heard that a famous child psychologist named Pamela counseling prisons after getting a degree to counsel adults Amity might have a contract with a ghost to stop preying on children prove it )

Why batman was so caring in his dream was a mystery though.

Danny decides to attribute it to his crushed hopes and child abandonment issues rearing their head, after all no way batman would ever be so caring in real life.

( In another reality Danny sees this world and ending and wishes to save more. Clockwork picks up the pieces from Batman's arms and gives him a second chance. And if this world was the same clockworks not telling )