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A Family Haunted
Tucker appeared by Danny's side disrupting his focus on the wiring he had been fiddling with. Tucker looked translucent, like a hologram and had a yellow hazmat suit on with glowing red traces and vias even on his dark green skin, his eyes glowed bright red and he looked annoyed.
“There are intruders on the southern roof ledge. Should I let them through the vents?” Tucker asked.
“Intruders?” Danny asked faintly, his voice was a little hoarse from disuse. He hummed before nodding.
Tucker scrunched his nose but nodded and flickered like an old film reel before vanishing. Sam faded into view beside him a smirk on her violet lips, her skin was a pallid ashy gray but she looked more solid than Tucker, her eyes were a bright green and her hair a luminous white, her own outfit was a green hazmat suit with a white half-skirt over it that had luminous green plaid patterning on it.
“Should we mess with them a little?” Sam asked, Danny smiled softly and nodded a little, Sam pumped her arms in glee glowing brighter. “Yes!”
Sam faded out of sight and the plants all around the room began to twitch and writhe predatorily. Danny stepped away from his desk and glanced around his laboratory workshop. It was an odd blend between ectoTech and plants from the Infinite Realms. It was all sleek and there were safety measures put in place so that no one could accidentally hurt themselves or trigger any sort of unwanted reactions without deliberately working to do it; mostly to keep his children from getting hurt.
“What vermin crawls through our garden?” Danny mused out loud, his tone somewhat threatening.
Suddenly vines crushed through the vents and dragged two costume-clad individuals from the dark corridors and cocooned them right in front of Danny so tightly that they couldn’t move despite their struggling. One was clad in reds, green, and yellows and the other in black and gray. Danny tilted his head a little surprised that a child would be running around so strangely dressed with an adult man in what could arguably be considered fetish gear.
“...Tucker doesn’t like you.” Danny told them matter of factly.
“Release us at once fiend!” The kid snarled, the vines shook him a little in retaliation.
“Why am I the fiend when you’re the one trespassing?” Danny asked pointedly, completely unimpressed.
“What is your purpose in Gotham?” The man growls at him, accusatory without any reasonable cause.
“...I live here?” Danny told him like he thought the man was a little dull.
“We know you live here fool! Why?” The kid snarled.
“Because my godfather moved us here.” Danny told him flatly, he looked entirely unimpressed with the both of them.
“You have no records of existing before arriving in Gotham, your godfather’s company has risen in power and fortune in an extremely short amount of time, and the chemical substance you use in your technology is highly questionable. Do you truly have no idea what your godfather is up to?” The man pressed clearly not believing that Danny was not in on whatever he was suspecting Vlad and him of.
“Vlad’s not up to anything but buying way too much cheese and indulging his stupid football thing.” Danny told them, shaking his head. “The chemical substance you guys are so butthurt about is perfectly safe to use and even beneficial for medical use when properly filtered. My research is strictly for environmental salvation and medical advancement. You would know plenty enough about whatever you are legally allowed to know if you looked at the public records instead of sneaking in like thieves to pillage company secrets.”
“Enough! What is your connection to the League of Assassins and how have you managed to procure so much Lazarus Water?!” The child snarled clearly beyond agitated, his voice rose to high and Danny hissed angrily at him.
“Shhh! Don’t you dare wake my children!” Danny ordered, voice low but threatening, his eyes flashing green. Both costumed individuals stiffened in the vines.
“Children? You can’t be more than thirteen…” The man stated, though he seemed stoic and only curious Danny could tell that he was uncomfortable.
“I’m sixteen! Just…a little stunted.” Danny complained.
“You’re supposed to be eighteen, remember?” Tucker’s voice cut in, Danny froze for a second before looking sheepish.
“I mean I’m eighteen. Full adult and everything.” Danny corrected quickly, he’d never been a good liar.
The bat fetish guy and the traffic light kid looked at each other with a strange expression. Their emotions at the exchange were a bit strange to parse out though so Danny didn’t pay much attention to it. Instead his eyes flicked to the side as he saw Jazz float in through the doorway, her long hair a trail of graceful blue fire, skin a translucent paper white, and wearing a black hazmat suit with teal accents, her eyes were a bright blazing orange. She beamed happily at Danny, her fangs on display.
“Vlad’s coming!” Jazz announced a little too proudly.
“Oh good, he can-” Danny was cut off.
“Incoming.” Sam announced drawing Danny’s attention back around.
His eyes flicked to the side as Sam pointed towards the skylight in warning. He only had a moment to look up before the skylight shattered inward with a loud crash. Two more figures dropped down but this time long mechanical tentacles shot out and snatched them out of mid air, tasering both of them a bit brutally. One was dressed completely in purple, black, and yellow while the other was mostly black, yellow, and red.
Gray guy and traffic light tensed up, clearly concerned about their costumed compatriots. Danny on the other hand was furious. A loud fragile wail sounded out as the two new intruders were rapidly restrained in almost crushing metal tentacles. Any weapons or struggling they tried were immediately electrocuted out of them. Danny jumped up and sprinted towards a door that was off to the side, it had stars and waves painted onto it.
“Excellent work, reliable rescue.” The kid complained.
“Fuck off.” The girl grunted trying not to move and struggling to breathe.
“...shhh, it’s okay Mama’s here…I’ll protect you…” Danny’s voice faintly traveled back out of the open door.
The vigilantes’ attention was drawn to the opposite door as it slid open automatically and Vlad Masters waltzed in looking rather frazzled, his eyes glowing a dangerous red. His eyes fell upon the restrained vigilantes and he snarled at them, his fangs fully visible and threatening. He almost stepped to approach them but Danny reappeared with two small babies cradled in his thin arms. Vlad visibly calmed down upon seeing them and approached quickly. He reached out to tug the small teen into a protective hug.
“Are you and the little ones alright Little Badger? Darling Jasmine informed me of intruders.” Vlad spoke to him softly, almost shaken.
“We’re fine Vlad. These weirdo fetishists were just trying to rob the place. Sam and Tucker took care of it for us.” Danny told them, his tone filled with complaint.
“We are not fetishists! Neither are we common thieves!” Traffic light kid snarled again, affronted by the accusation.
“Noooo!” The small white haired baby whined angrily and pushed at Vlad’s stomach to get him away from Danny.
“Alright, alright.” Vlad chuckled, stepping back.
The black haired toddler refused to even look at him, her face buried in Danny’s neck. The white haired baby had the same red eyes that Master’s did, his skin tone a stark pale that spoke of albinism. He had Danny’s glare however as he scowled at Vlad. Danny looked amused at Dan’s possessiveness as the little baby huffed grumpily and snuggled back into Danny’s arms.
“Can you get them out of here? I think I should just take them back home. It’s a little later than I thought it was.” Danny lamented with a sigh.
“Alright Danny, I’ll get rid of them.” Vlad agreed easily with a pleasant smile on his face. Danny frowned suspiciously at him.
“Ń̵̰̱́o̶̟̾͝ñ̵͓͒-̴̮͔̈l̷͆̈́͜ḙ̸̞̃t̸̢̠͋h̵̠͎̒̄̀ā̶̱̋ĺ̴͇͈̠͗ĺ̶̯̈̍y̴̛̝̩.” Danny told him in ghost speak. Vlad let out a lamenting sigh.
“Very well then.” Vlad agreed.
Danny nodded and turned away, Jazz floating over to join his side returning back to the manor with her brother and niblings.