Short DPXDC Prompts #878

Clark goes to the same coffee shop every morning and he knows every barista there. There’s a new barista who’s only been working for the past few weeks or so named Danny. One morning he walks up to see the place is being robbed at gunpoint. Before he can even quickly change into Superman to help, the new barista decks the gunman upside the jaw and disarms him. 

Even though Danny is new, Clark has never once seen the kid hesitate at an order. 

No “Ten shot expresso. Hold the expresso.”

No “Whatever will give me a heart attack.”

No “Unicorn magic with extra soy milk but hold the milk, I’m lactose intolerant you see, add cream and a cherry to the top with sprinkles but only the blue ones-”

Not one of them tripped the kid up and he always had a quip at the ready.

So really, Clark should have expected Danny would say something back at the robber with no hesitation even though the robber has a gun pointed right between Danny’s eyes.

Clark swears those ice blue eyes flashed a glowing green.

But Clark didn’t.

And neither did the would be robber.

Short DPXDC Prompts #864

Duke sees Danny as an ungodly eldritch horror that expands beyond time and space. He wouldn't have it any other way <3

Danny appears human to everyone but Duke.

To Duke, Danny is this undiscribable shifting nebula with teeth and eyes, claws and wings, bones and stars, flesh and void. Danny is everything but at the same time nothing.

Danny appears human to everyone but Duke.

That is until something rips and the Infinity Relems starts appearing in spacetimereality and people can suddenly see.

As the tear grows people ask why Duke isn't freaking out, his partner isn't human after all.

And Duke's lips twitch up.

Submitted Prompts #123

One of those soulmate aus where you have the last words your soulmate says to you written on you.

Each time Danny goes to his Phantom form, he technically dies.

Someone is very confused about why their soulmate would decide to say "I'm going ghost" on their deathbed.

Danny decides to make his identity reveal more dramatic by using his old catchphrase.

Hear me out. Danny decides that he wants to have fun with his catchphrases at one point and in true teenager fashion, completely forgets about the potential consequences of this and eventually it becomes habit so his soulmate could have words like;

"Whoops"

"Watch this!"

"Guess that's the end for me"

"Guess I'll die"

"What's that?"

And whatever would fit the zany shenanigans he could be involved in.

The options range from “hey, you wanna see something cool?” to “well that shouldn’t bend that way” to “did you just fucking SHOOT ME?!” to “ah shit here we go again” to “look, a distraction!”

Whoever has Danny as their soulmate just has this ever increasing list winding around their body in a rainbow of colors

Either that or they have a single phrase just randomly contorts and changes colors and words but stays in the same spot

The color of each phrase is dictated by nothing but this doesn’t stop the soulmate from trying to connect nonexistent dots

“I assure you, I am in perfect health” “Rosebud” “Die bitch” “You ready to die? Because I am” “This is safe for human consumption, right?” “Hey Tucker, wanna see if I can make this jump?”

To be perfectly honest Danny’s Soulmate might think he has some kind of item or something that lets him revive.

i wish to add a few more to the list

"How far do you think i can kick this bucket"

"Technically the radiation is only at the bottom of the pool so"

"The femur's tough to break, good job!"

"I may have gotten too silly this time"

"Happy birthday grimace!"

"Is that a brick?"

"Mum this tastes different, did you put anything different in it?"

"Who's Joe?"

"Joke's on you, we're in the living room!"

"Who's Candice?"

"When you say 'predatory', how predatory do you mean?"

"AAH BOXY WHAT THE FUCK"

"Hey Vlad, ever tried 'updog'?"

"YOLO"

"YEET"

"Dude, seriously, I have a test tomorrow"

"If you eat my homework I SWEAR TO CLOCKWORK-"

Tim’s soul mate has been driving him crazy for years. What did “You know what? You’re right. Who knows what kind of awesome, super-cool things exist on the other side of that Portal?” mean?

Tim had always hated the idea of soul marks, he thought they where cruel, you would never know if someone was truly your soulmate until you lost them forever. Some people spent their entire lives convinced they where soulmates only to find out they weren’t when their partner died.

Frankly if his soul mark didn’t mention a portal Tim would have probably just ignored it. But no Tim’s natural curiosity got the better of him which caused Tim to research portals at length, trying to find out what could kill his soulmate.

Everything changed one day when Tim felt the sharp pain coming from his soul mark. A pain he knew meant his soul mate had just died. Tim tried not to let it bother him, he continued patrol as usual, and went to bed that night refusing to even look at his mark and it’s fading color.

What Tim was not expecting when he finally gained the courage to look at his fading soul mark was a new set of words “anyone know how I did that cause I don’t”. Tim had heard of this phenomenon happening, it was becoming more and more common as medical technology advanced. The appearing of a new soul mark was believed to mean there soulmate had been brought back to life. Those that had a soul mate resuscitated where believed to be lucky, now they knew at what time their soulmate died which made them much easier to track. Some countries even had laws that required people who came back to life to be put on a registry with their time of death and final words so there soulmates could find them.

Tim was one of the lucky ones and despite not living in one of those countries he had access to the bat computer and death wish coffee, time to find his soul mate.

….

Tim had looked through the reports of everyone who had been died when he felt his mark burn. None of the last words matched. Maybe his soul mate was revived outside of a hospital, maybe he was in an area without hospitals. Tim even contemplated his soul mate not being on this planet. Tim was about to see if there was some kind of galactic registry of soul marks when he felt his mark burning again.

Tim’s soulmate had just died, twice in the same week. Tim scrambled to look at his mark. “Okay so if I do this I shou-“ was now branded on his skin. Before Tim had a chance to let the words sink in the burning returned and the words ripples green before his eyes. “So you really think a catch phrase will help me not -“.

…

Tim hasn’t known it at the time but this was just the beginning. Somehow his soul mate was dying and coming back to life multiple times a day. Most often his soul mates dying words where “Going Ghost” but other times, well they just got weird.

Tim has taken to photographing his soul mark ever time it changes, hoping to find some kind of pattern. He even made a scrapbook out of his favorites and the ones he considered most bizarre.

Some where mundane

“Whoops”

“Watch this!”

“Bet you I can”

Some where humorous

“Look a distraction”

“Who you gonna call”

“Happy Birthday Grimace”

Some where confusing

“All right Wes if you really want to know”

“Damn it Boxy I have a test tomorrow”

“Because of the three of us I am the only one who speaks Purple Backed Gorilla”

And some where just concerning

“That should not bend that way!”

“Did you just fucking SHOOT me?!”

“Oh shit, not this guy again”

…

Needless to say Tim was concerned about his soulmate. Whomever they where they died and revived more times than a comic book character. If it wasn’t for how short the time between deaths there were (current record was 6.2 seconds), Tim would think the Lazarus Pits were involved (he checked during his world tour of League of Assassins bases).

When Tim finally tracked down his soulmate he wound wrap the idiot in the strongest bubble wrap he could find and lock them in his secret Red Robin Cave (no Bart, it was not his secret lair for when he finally joined the dark side) where nothing could ever harm them so they would stop dying already.

Damn, Tim did not have time for this, he had to interviews for the new WE position, luckily Tam agrees to let him have them at his favorite coffee shop. Then he had to meet some relative of Jason’s lover, check out Duke’s new classmate who he thinks is a meta, help Damian track down a weird animal he saw, go to this goth circus with Dick, and all the other things his family tricked him into doing while he was sleep deprived.

Sigh. Today was going to be a long day.

This of course means we all have to come together as a Fandom and come up with funny/traumatic sentences to appear on Tims wrist

My contributions so far are:

I wonder what this big red button does

If I had a nickel for every time a girl I had a crush on turned into a dragon and I had to fight her id have two nickels

Im sure he was bluffing, see!

Now I just have to keep Vlad from killing Dad!

Not now Sam, My hellhound needs a walk

Cujo I will play with you if you agree not to eat my homework

Im borrowing mom and dads shrink ray!

Wolf accidentally tore a semi-permanent hole into out dimension again and I gotta go help him fix it

Oh, nuclear launch codes

You're the one who's been making all those children disappear?!

Thats a lot of snakes

Thats a really big spider

Im sure its perfectly safe

Fairies aren't real, its just a ring of mushrooms

Dont make me get the garlic count chocula

Is that a ninja?

Do you think I could just fill up a spray bottle with the "Lazarus waters" and threaten to spray the ninjas if they misbehave?

Throwing my two cents in:

"What is with people and mind control?"

"DAMN IT JAZZ! PUT THE GUN DOWN!"

"So when you say 'death ray' is that literal or-"

"Once again Vlad, I won't be your son!"

"I'm not interested in being adopted."

"What part of 'mum's not interested' do you not understand?"

"So you put the wire here?"

"Why is it always clowns?"

"You can keep you're creepy basement to yourself."

"I know Judo!"

"I am armed and dangerous."

"When you say poisoned..."

"Vivisection? Been there done that."

"I rate this experience a 0 out of 10."

"Eh maybe a 5, you're getting there."

"Now that's a 2 gotta put more 'bleh' into it."

"You want me to jump into that? Okay."

"...You know the saying, 'who died and made you king'?"

"Is this the 'Year of the Cults' or something?"

"PUT THE KNIFE DOWN DANI!"

Short DPXDC Prompts #794

Tim tried to clone Kon again. Danny wakes up in a glass tube not knowing where he is and why he’s so much stronger.

Danny's memories are a mess.

He remembers pain. He remembers red yellow and green. He remembers tears. He remembers the begging. (Nonono Kon don't-!)

He remembers pain. He remembers orange and teal. He remembers fear. He remembers the screaming. ( Mum Dad stop-!)

His memories are a mess but he knows, he can't stay floating in whatever the hell this is (not with Mum and Dad or was it CADMAS, no GIW...who...?)

So he reaches up (his hands have never been this small but that's not right because Jazz-) and he wants out.

Short DPXDC Prompts #661

Danny gets a job in Gotham as a Self Defense instructor.

Look, when you're walking through Gotham at fuck-off o'clock and someone grabs you and you have the skills to defend yourself, you're bloody well going to use them.

Danny raises an eyebrow at the tank of a man laid out at his feet.

"Dude, did no one tell you not to jump a black belt?"

The visual of Danny just easily beating the shit out of a Bat trying to sneak up on him and trying to play it out like he’s just an average black belt of any martial art is positively incredible. Good shit.

"I don't recognise that move. Which martial arts did you say you follow?"

Danny, irritated, still sleep deprived and coffee spilt on the ground, "The fuck you kind. Want another demonstration?"

Danny just summons a sword of ice, right in front of the batfam, and proceeds to WHOOP ROBIN'S ASS with a sword that SHOULD HAVE BEEN CHIPPED by robins sword, yet remains intact for the entire duel

And then danny helps robin up afterward saying shit like "I haven't had a good spar like that in a while, will I see you in any of my classes?" Whilst fully aware robin was out for blood

And then the very next day damian shows up to his class and danny tags him immediately as the stabby robin

Short DPXDC Prompts #661

Danny gets a job in Gotham as a Self Defense instructor.

Look, when you're walking through Gotham at fuck-off o'clock and someone grabs you and you have the skills to defend yourself, you're bloody well going to use them.

Danny raises an eyebrow at the tank of a man laid out at his feet.

"Dude, did no one tell you not to jump a black belt?"

The visual of Danny just easily beating the shit out of a Bat trying to sneak up on him and trying to play it out like he’s just an average black belt of any martial art is positively incredible. Good shit.

"I don't recognise that move. Which martial arts did you say you follow?"

Danny, irritated, still sleep deprived and coffee spilt on the ground, "The fuck you kind. Want another demonstration?"

Short DPXDC Prompts #661

Danny gets a job in Gotham as a Self Defense instructor.

Look, when you're walking through Gotham at fuck-off o'clock and someone grabs you and you have the skills to defend yourself, you're bloody well going to use them.

Danny raises an eyebrow at the tank of a man laid out at his feet.

"Dude, did no one tell you not to jump a black belt?"

Hmu with questions I'm stuck in an office for the day

Spoilers for New Episode What Lies Beneath

Short DPXDC Prompts #620

Danny started a new bakery in The Narrows. Red Hood can’t quite believe that this shop is still open… until he actually goes there and fully realizes why.

He's been meaning to investigate the place as Jason. Just to ease his anxiety suspicion as more and more of the orphans start chatting up 'Boo's Bakery'.

(He was planning on walking in, have a coffee maybe a bite as he sniffs about.)

What he wasn't planning was being thrown through the front shop window at 3am.

(He blames the up-in-coming rogue, cause who thought it was fair for a meta ability to have invisibility, intangability and super strength all at once?!)

He also wasn't planning on finding the owner of said bakery cute.

(Wasn't expecting him to be hot either but when a guy throws the guy who threw you further, well...)

Short DPXDC Prompts #638

The Riddler thinks this might be his best puzzle yet. Clues are scattered through out the city and everything is put in place. He expected Batman to burst through the door, not a handful of civilians holding his riddles and armed to the teeth with green and white weapons.

This takes place not too long after that post with Tucker and Riddler on the train.

(He got away from Red Robin and that teen -and Red Hood when did he get there?!- when the train has a minor derailment)

So yes, The Riddler is expecting it to be the bats and birds to be after his tail, he wasn’t expecting that teen to appear.

(Gotham sees The Riddler be interrupted in his speech to the bats and birds. Sees The Riddler freeze at the sight of a teen. Red beanie, battered bag, scuffed shoes, people think the teen’s an Ally kid, they don’t think outsider. At least not until neon green 1′s and 0′s start running across the feed.)

Short DPXDC Prompts #638

The Riddler thinks this might be his best puzzle yet. Clues are scattered through out the city and everything is put in place. He expected Batman to burst through the door, not a handful of civilians holding his riddles and armed to the teeth with green and white weapons.

This takes place not too long after that post with Tucker and Riddler on the train.

(He got away from Red Robin and that teen -and Red Hood when did he get there?!- when the train has a minor derailment)

So yes, The Riddler is expecting it to be the bats and birds to be after his tail, he wasn’t expecting that teen to appear.

(Gotham sees The Riddler be interrupted in his speech to the bats and birds. Sees The Riddler freeze at the sight of a teen. Red beanie, battered bag, scuffed shoes, people think the teen’s an Ally kid, they don’t think outsider. At least not until neon green 1′s and 0′s start running across the feed.)

Short DPXDC Prompts #637

The Joker’s plan was going perfectly. The hostages were rounded up, the various bombs throughout the city were planted, and the batsignal lit up the sky.

He expected everything and anything to happen…Everything besides an Amity Parker with a baseball bat.

Currently imagining the Amity Parker yelling ‘Fore’ right before they swing and the gut reaction to it is that anyone else from the town pulls out an umbrella from somewhere and pops it open, expecting ectoplasm to go flying into the air.

They’re disappointed that there wasn’t a satisfying pop following the yell.

There is however a heavy thud as the Joker hits the ground.

And red starts staining the concreate.

The baseball bat wielder is silent for a moment as they watch the red puddle grow, “Well that was disappointing.”

Everyone Right here right now. Stop what You’re doing and give me your thoughts. What’s on your mind? How’s it going? Yeet your funky little mind worms at me

Vague thoughts but,

In a crossover where Danny's been King for many, many years, Ra's has his whole *gestures* thing because he became enamoured with Danny at a young age after seeing the King do something....

(Please note I know nearly nothing about this guy so I don't even know if it's viable)

The Trio and Tim meet at a skatebord comp. I don't know which one(s) of the Trio are competing. Maybe they are there to support Val.

(Said comp gets attacked by Villins or maybe a ghost, Danny and Tim run into each other cause they are looking for a place where they can change. Neither of them get the chance to go hero before something is being thrown at them. If Val's there, she saves their bi-disaster asses. If not they both get hit cause they are trying to save the other - no Sam, Danny didn't forget he has powers, definitely not because the other guy is distractingly cute, stop laughing Tucker!)

Short DPXDC Prompts #631

Danny Fenton has a Mechanical Engineering degree. Usually Wayne Enterprises prefers some form of résumé or Portfolio of their potential employees skills.

They didn’t expect Danny to pull out perfect replicas of Bat equipment and explain how he reverse engineered them step by step like it was nothing.

One of interviewers ask where he learned to do that. He explains vagly about his parents.

The interviewer: "Um, are your parents villains? We just need to know to make sure for security. "

Danny: "N-" flash back to what they are trying to do to an entire dimension of people. "maybe" in a small voice.

Wait wait.

They don't ask about his parents at the interview, it comes out months later (Tim with hearts in his eyes as he watches Danny mindlessly put together anti-incert-power-here gun) when a co-worker asks,

"Were you raised by villins Danny?"

And there's silence for a moment as movement in the Lab stops because Danny has stopped.

No breath leaving lungs. A chill in the air. A crushing weight of death.

Everyone watches as the teen hunches over, trying to become smaller as he actually focuses on his project (now taking it apart because what we're you thinking Fenton?!) And says,

"Can't be villins when the government passed the law."

Tim blinks.

His coworkers blink.

Bruce blinks.

The world blinks.

24 Hours of Life for a Favor (DC X DP)

It wasn't supposed to happen like this. John Constantine was the one supposed to be in the circle. There had been so many attacks in the past few weeks by a new enemy that the Justice League found themselves unable to defeat. It was wreaking havoc all over the world, but none of their attacks did a thing.

That's when Constantine approached them. He told them it was a spirit from the Infinite Realms itself, and it was almost impossible to banish them because portals were so rare and complicated to make unless you were a spirit itself. So what was his big plan? Summon another one of these things, but make a deal to send both of them back.

John had planned to offer another piece of his soul. He had sold his soul to so many demons, what was one more right? They needed to offer something in return in order to get the spirit to help.

Well, now Constantine was on the floor unconscious and the spirit was still wreaking havoc. The rest of the League was busy holding the creature back, so they would be unable to help.

Cue one of the League members stepping into the circle. It was the only plan they had after all.

The ground inside the summoning circle split open, an eerie green mist erupting from the cracks and spilling over the floor, surrounding both circles, one of which contained the now much more cautious hero.

What came out was terrifying. Long, protruding horns made of ice twisted and curved on themselves. A hand reaches through the largest of the cracks, charred black skin with claws the same icy appearance as the horns.

Long story short? A complete eldritch horror coming through that summons. It was enough to freeze the hero in their place as they stare in absolute horror at the being before him.

"Why have you summoned me here?" The being spoke, multiple voices whispering and grating over each other in a painful and terrifying sound.

"I need help. One of your own is wreaking havoc in my world, and we don't have a way to send him back to your realm. I want to make a deal that sends both you and him out of my world and back to yours."

The being pauses, glancing down at the hero to ponder at his request. Well, at least that is what the hero assumed considering the being's eyes were no more than lights peering from an inky shadowy skull. It moves its gaze to the circle itself.

"You understand that a summoning circle like this requires that I receive something in return right? I can't leave the circle until you give an offering."

"Well," The hero glances back at Constantine. "What do I have that you would accept?"

The creature seemed to think it over before it smiled. Sharp, needle-like teeth that dripped a horrid green liquid.

"24 hours."

The hero froze in confusion. "What?"

"In return, I want 24 hours of you life to claim as mine. Do you agree?"

24 hours. They would have 24 hours less to live if they went through with this. One glance at the chaos behind them left no room for argument.

"Deal".

It took less than two minutes for the creature to complete its end of the bargain. The spirit that had plagued the league for weeks was captured and returned home to where it belonged. The creature itself turned to the hero it made a deal with.

"I will return to collect what you owe."

It was a week later that a scrappy teenage boy with white hair showed up in the middle of a Justice League meeting at the Watchtower with a goofy expression on his face.

"Hiya! I've come to collect my debt!"

All the heroes stared at him in confusion and caution. How had he gotten in?

"debt?" replied the hero. They had never met this kid before

The kid deadpanned in their direction, suddenly pulling a scrap of paper out of thin air.

"You made a deal. 24 hours in exchange for an Infinite Realms Spirit's service. I've come to get those 24 hours."

The hero swallowed. Right, that deal. They didn't know why this kid was coming to collect on that debt, but they weren't about to question it if they didn't have to see that...creature again.

"All right, do what you have to do." They had already accepted that they would miss 24 hours of their life now.

"Great!" The kid exclaimed, suddenly digging into a backpack and pulling out a notebook and pen. "Because I have several years worth of hero advice and training tips to catch up on and i only have 24 hours to learn as much as I can from a real-life superhero before my time's up. This is a once-in-an-afterlife time-experience"

"...what?"

A.K.A. Danny gets summoned in eldritch form by a member of the league and they offer 24 hours in exchange for his help. He comes back later in his regular ghost form ready to spend 24 hours trying to catch up on all the training he missed as a teenage vigilante all while fanboying on the inside.

The question is: which hero was it and how did the 24 hours go? Let your minds run free

I keep imagining this one scene- usually its Jason or Tim or Damian, or all the Batboys or the Batfam sitting there with cultists or the league trying to summon the ghost king- but put it as just Dick who is a little surprised that he passed the requirement of having died so he can be used to summon this eldritch being that rules the dead.

And when he's bound, placed in front of a Lazarus pit and everyone is still trying to reach him, the being is summoned- and Danny just lurches through the pit hacking and spitting and cursing because this ectoplasm is nasty, what have you people been doing to it?

And the cultists are expecting Pariah Dark. They demand he takes them to the real ghost king. And Dick just has to watch this being with snow white hair and glowing green eyes start to float up and take this sheen of other to him as he goes "yeah no".

And Dick is maybe a little drugged, and has a concussion, but he feels he has an excuse for what comes out of his mouth.

"Nightwing, come in. What's going on?"

"B, I think I found your next kid. I'm gonna marry him. Even if he climbed out of a Lazarus pit and looks a little spooky."

"-what?!"

Dick thinks he must have passed out for a moment because from one blink to another, the cultist are unconscious -eyes rolled up into the backs of their heads, some with bile pooling at their mouths, others now have soaked pants- and the guy is crouching in front of him.

A smirk pulls up at soft lips, showing off pointed and sharp teeth -and Dick feels something twist in his gut- “Not the strangest proposal I’ve gotten, but you get points.” 

The smirk falls into a concerned frown and Dick follows the hand that’s slowly reaching up to his face to move bloodied hair away from a cut that Dick is only now realising he has and-

“Why is he getting points when I didn’t?!” 

It takes Dick a moment to attach the voice of Damian to that sentence because what-

“-the fuck?!”

The guy snorts, “Because your grandfather forced you to, Kiddo, you know that.”