Ever since he was a kid Danny had always wanted to be an astronaut, he would beg his parents to buy him astrology books and stuck glow in the dark stars on every blank surface of his walls. His favorite superhero is the Martian Manhunter and he drew the solar system for his art project and blabber nonstop about constellations as any healthy, ambitious child does. Then one day he turned fourteen and well, we all know how that story goes.

The NASA posters on his walls have scorch marks from stray ecto blasts, Danny frowned at them and eventually had to take down everything. The glow stars had fallen off during ghost attacks and Danny stopped bothering to stick them back on after the nth time. The books were shoved to the back of the closet and the model rocket, once proudly displayed, broke(again, ghost casualties) and Danny had to throw it away.

Danny wondered what even is his life anymore as he walked further down the path of letting go his lifelong passion and never actually fully coming to terms with it but really, that's a whole other can of worms for another day.

Being Phantom is different from being Fenton. Phantom makes him feel strong in more sense than just physical strength, Phantom makes him feel like he can do anything. And while not everyone necessarily likes Phantom, Fenton isn't exactly a crowd favorite either. But the best part about Phantom is that Danny could fly .

On the rare, rare occasion of a quiet night Danny's favorite thing to do is have his arms behind his head, ghostly tail flicking lazily as he floats on his back leisurely above the clouds. Danny learned that not a lot of ghosts shared his love for higher altitude, preferring places bustling with energy to feed off instead of cool, quiet night skies where the stars winked at him from outer space.

Danny's ghost core hummed with content as he flew around in circles and loops. Amity Park and its surroundings looked like a speck of dust from all the way up here. Up here, where no one could laugh or make fun at him for holding out his arms to pretend that he's a bird, or a plane(or a rocket ship!). Danny giggled as he did another nosedive through the cloud before launching himself upwards going higher and higher and higher .

Sam and Tucker made him promised that he wouldn't do anything stupid like going to space because they don't have the jetpack and helmet anymore and they can't be be sure Danny wouldn't just explode the next time he left the planet, and that's exactly what he's going to do(minus the exploding part, obviously.)

And alright, despite everything, he should really thank Technus for this. The whole thing had been a mess and a full ride of emotions but one day it just dawned on him that holy shit. He's been to space. He can go to space!

Danny ignored the burning sensation in his lungs, forcing himself through the layers of Earth's atmosphere. He turned himself invisible and intangible, and it gets easier when he decides to just not breathe. It's not like he needed to. His obsession tugs at his core, gravitating him towards somewhere no ordinary human could reach. Before he knew it, it became quiet.

The first time he was here, Danny didn't have time to take in his surroundings. He looked back to the Earth with awe, mesmerized by the brilliant white light from the sun washing over his home planet. It looked absolutely gorgeous and Danny wished he had a camera on him so he could show his friends.

Ghosts are typically weightless beings, which means Danny quickly discovered Newton's third law had nothing on him. He soars through open space with little difficulty, doing his usual routine of circles and loops. Without any wind resistance it felt like he could go even faster!

Danny dropped himself on the moon, visible and tangible and grinning stupidly wide. He's over the moon or rather, he's on the moon. The ground felt solid under his feet, he hopped and bounced along the moon's surface, giggling to himself silly when he tried to moonwalk.

' Zero gravity is so cool! '

"Who are you?"

Danny nearly tripped over his own feet when a green man suddenly appeared in front of him. He took a wary step back, a little offended that his personal time off is being interrupted. He recognized the man staring him down as Green Lantern. What is a member of the Justice League doing here?

Green Lantern took a defensive stance. Danny, deciding that he does not want to stick around to find out, blinked out of visibility.

Green Lantern's expression morphed into utter shock and confusion. He looked around with his mouth agape, then flew off. Danny decides to follow him while he searches the craters, yelling for him to come out. It was pretty funny when he kicked a pebble and the man flinched.

Eventually, Green Lantern had given up and left scratching his head. Danny hid behind a rock to wait for him to leave the area but then he noticed he's going somewhere deeper into space instead of going back to Earth. Just around the corner, Danny saw Green Lantern disappear behind an invisible wall. No, an invisible door? Naturally, he's super curious. And naturally, he had to keep following him.

Danny flew up to where the hero was and stared into the endless void of space. Nothing there, except it feels wrong. He could feel something generating energy on the other side of this wall. Something huge . He flies ahead and gasps when a large structure comes into view. There are people in space! Superheroes, going on about their days in the space station-like building. He caught sight of Green Lantern through one of the window panels talking to Batman of all people.

Danny grinned, looks like he found something he shouldn't have.

a/n: I haven't been on ffnet since 2013 but I figure I can slowly import my stories from ao3 to here anyway comments are appreciated! Thanks for reading!