Do carpels work for you?

*drops a single row of carpels on the counter*

*looks up at the menu board then sees the amount of choices with dawning horror*

Yeah.. imma have to customize

So I’ve been thinking about the Appalachian trail, which first off looks nothing like an idea, but that trail takes maybe around 3 months to traverse. Maybe even more, depending on the amount of resources that a person takes with them to hike the trail.

And don’t forget the buddy system, because it’s more dangerous to go alone on that trail than it is with a group. Despite the probable drain on resources, because predators normally don’t approach a group of people.

Maybe someone makes a bet who can travel the trail forwards and back within a timeframe, with a certain amount of resources on the batside of things.

As like a endurance run or something, like a test to see how long they can survive without something in a relatively “in the woods” situation.

Which is somewhat controlled environment that any of the bat fam can get out of with non red level emergency button, but a button nonetheless to say “hey can you come get me.”

And people can get lost on the trail, if they take a wrong turn.

Instead of the classic twist of Danny running to Gotham to have sanctuary from danger. He can hide in the Appalachian mountains while pretending to be a hiker taking the trail.

(Which should be maybe a state or two away from Illinois. If my geography is wrong, someone else can correct that.)

And if I wanted to lose someone who’s been following me to the point I take desperate measures, I would go on that trail.

The few things I would take with me, would be a sturdy backpack, sturdy boots, pocket sleeping bag, cash, maybe card, a phone if needs must, generic underwear package if I have the luxury of time, and a refillable water sleeve with water purifier stuff.

There is no signal on most of the trail, btw. Only few spots do, and that’s near touristy spots for tips of mountains.

Which the GIW would have no reasonable cause to cause destruction to government protected national parks.

Even if they have a warrant for Danny, saying he might be on the trail. They cannot go guns blazing without getting shut down viciously by the government.

They would have to work with the rangers, who would look at damage reports, then say “you sit here, and don’t touch anything.” And search for Danny themselves without the environmental damage that the GIW would’ve done.

And I bet you that there are some government departments that gossip about new departments.

Who are are like “I can’t believe that the big wigs of government would fund such a useless endeavor.”

And “there is much better uses for the money that funded that department.”

And once they hear about the complaints of the damage reports… “omg, they cause more damage than it takes to fund them, wtf.”

And if the GIW do cause damage to national parks, I can see the government cutting off the funds, and shutting the whole thing down.

And so to the point, maybe something happens on the phantom side, Danny’s parents die, or his worst case scenario of secret getting revealed to parents happen.

Or he has GIW on his ass, and he books it. He is on the trail, maybe he has a go bag, which had the mentioned supplies above. Or nothing but the skin of his back, whichever.

Sometime when, he meets the bat fam of choice that went on the trail, who btw had no signal to phone, even if they did, it would be bat satellite signal.

Which I bet would be low as hell in the mountains, and the only place for them to have the button reach signal waves, would probably be at the tourist spots.

Bat person sees teenager with all the hallmarks of Bruce adoption traits, alone on the trail, either with the skin off their back, or somewhat reasonably prepared.

And decides, they are going to stick with this teenager, because they cannot reasonably believe that this teenager is taking a hardcore hike trail alone.

And Danny probably tries to ditch the bat person without powers, which is probably hard to do.

With all the specialized training to follow foot trails and shit.

Also my reasoning for no food, maybe there’s packaged rations or something, but not for an entire 3 months worth.

And Jazz probably, in the past, was a little gung-ho on like edible plants you can eat in the wild or something. And likely shoved the knowledge down Danny’s throat. Sam too.

Cause like I’m pretty sure there was a few flashbacks when the whole Fenton family went camping for some reason, and little tiny child Jazz went over-prepared on knowledge of what to do, without practical application.

But yeah, it somehow ends up to the bat person adopting Danny mentality without realizing, like the arlo meme. Like they had initially only tagged along with Danny to make sure he gets picked up or something.

Only for Danny to continue the trail, to basically lose the GIW, for few months to keep up the image to his bat tag along that he was hiking.

They both probably ended up bonding or something, once they both realize that Danny isn’t leaving the trail, and Danny realizing that this person isn’t leaving him alone.

Which by the time the bat person realizes that they adopted a whole ass teen, is when they bring the teen back to the manor, and get promptly teased by the others for adopting Bruce’s adoption habits.

Which then can be expanded upon then.

I feel like I dumped a whole ass fanfiction in plot points for maybe 10-13 chapters worth of it.

I think this might be problematic to read, but I didn’t want you to have to strain yourself to read fat paragraphs.

Sorry the menu is a tad… much. Thank u for the carpels tho I happily accept your offering because hOLY SHIT DUDE?! this is like an entire ass novel my man holy fuck.

Genuinely amazing. Danny hiking on the Appalachian trail to hide from the GIW?! Just all of this??? One of the most refreshingly real world and probable dabbles I’ve received in a while. The Appalachian trail isn’t for inexperienced hikers or the unprepared. That shit is grueling. Only a few people attempt it for a reason: they have enough money saved up to do it and are able to stop going to work for three whole months. You’d definitely be quitting your job to do that. No shot that any American business would give you that many off days.

The batfam member is fully decked out with every possible thing they need and Danny has an extremely cheap backpacking backpack and like NO proper camping supplies. The temps that some places get here are ridiculously cold. This kid is gonna freeze!!! (Jokes on everyone Danny is to cold that cats are to warm sunny windows. The guy loves it.)

There’s a Appalachian trail tradition I’d like to mention: when you finish the trail you get a Trail Name. It’s a kinda a way to distinguish you from all the other hikers. (Link of official Appalachian museum page about it here)

With those experiences and ideas in mind, what would Danny’s and the Batfams trail name be?

Okay so:

1) The ghost zone aka The Infinite Realm is connected to a supposedly infinite different universe's/dimensions/Realms.

2) Ghost portals can take you anywhere and any Time.

3) Amity Park was dragged into the Ghost Zone by Pariah Dark.

So what are the chances of the entirety of Amity Park (secret GIW base inclusion being optional) being dropped into another world/universe/dimension like DC or Marvel?

[if Amity Park could speak I imagine them going: "HELLO NEW WORLD! 🤩 Fate/Destiny/the omniverse has decided that this world shall be our new home *clasps hands together & leans forward* and I'm about to make it everybody's problem" 😈😈😈😈]

Ooooo the ENTIRETY of Amity Park? I enjoy that greatly.

616 Marvel has dealt with space/dimensional refugees like the Asgardians making New Asgard on earth. From my memory of comic history, I’m pretty sure that DC hasn’t had anything similar happen (well no space/dimensional beings that were friendly at least).

Marvel wise, I mean S.H.I.E.L.D. is going to instantly be on their case. Does Amity residents refuse to let S.H.I.E.L.D workers into their town? Do they let them in and mess around with them and scare them shitless?

There’s other questions too like, would Danny get recruited by the Ghost Riders? He IS a soul that was revived. Maybe not for the purpose of revenge, but definitely to protect others. Do ghosts go through the portal still? Can they mess around with magic? How much of a threat are they to THIS universes supers?

For DC we got other questions. Does the Justice League deal with the situation, Captain Marvel, The Green Lanterns? Truly unsure but Amity would be definitely be blocked off from the outside world until they can deem them safe and not a threat.

Would The Spectre instantly fuckin destroy Vlad? Vlad absolutely would be put on The Spectre’s radar and you cannot convince me otherwise that The Spectre is the first Super that arrives in Amity. The Spectre is literally the embodiment of God’s Wrath. If so what would Vlad’s punishment be? The Spectre likes to give ironic punishments. Someone stole a bunch of jewelry? Cool let’s turn them into a necklace and stomp on it until it breaks into a thousand pieces. Someone stole from the poor and became a millionaire from that practice? Cool let’s make their wealth and dollar bills turn into blades and swirl around them until they die. I need The Spectre to have a truce or pact with Phantom so bad y’all you have no idea.

The legal issues they have to go through would be wild. The Fentons finally get put under investigation because their practices are against so so so many scientific research laws. Bruce Wayne/Tony Stark donates a very generous amount to ghost damage repairs.

You could spin this a completely different way as well. There are so many ways to create a fic with this I love it so much.

first, LOVE your blog =) Always a pleasure :3 second, can you recommend any fics where Danny's secret is out or about to be found out? like you know, Valerie or his parents or the school finding out and how he deals with it? that would be great =)

yeah okay so lemme tell you a secret;;;;;

revelation fics are my guilty pleasure

HERE WE GO

now I’m not sure whether you want most of the fic to be about the process of people finding out or most of the fic to be Danny dealing with his shit or if the revelation is just a side part of the fic so HERES ALL OF THAT

Phantom’s Sketchbook by AkoyaMizuno

Masks and Plunge by Cordria

Of Field Trips and Phantoms by Ironinkpen

A Secret Uncovered by Darth Frodo

Little Earthquakes by A Perplexing Puzzle

You Should Be Dead by SaphireDragon11

The Reality of Virtuality by Artgirl4

Secrets Revealed by RedHeadsRock1010

The Scrapbook by Dragon Elexus

Something Special by Tay1019411

Tortured Truth by Darth Frodo

The Right of It by The Wicked Wench of the West

Green Jacket, Red Sleeves by LunarMothim

Connections and Confessions by Lynse

Unexpected Revelation by TallieCat

The Great Experiment by Kagome51

Karate, Judo, KungFu, What was That? by Artgirl4

A Jock and a Hard Place by AnneriaWings and Haikujitsu

Vulnerable by Anneriawings and Haikujitsu (its been years and I’m still screaming about this fic oh my god)

Danny? Phantom? and He’s a Fenton? by Erratta

Critera of Life by Darcyjackal

Stargazing by EverAfterGirl

Sounds in the Dark and In the Light of Day by Sleepyreader13

In the Stitching by Colette Amelia

Shift by CaptainOzone

Adjustment by Michael J.J

A Gift of a Heart by Alexa Piper

Disclosures by Me The Anon One

Photoshop by sarahhaley

Life and Death by Erratta

Jack Fenton’s Son by what-happened-2-nice

Detention at Starbucks by zizzy333

The Bruises by YAJJ

Do Superheroes Exist? by Golden Lunar Eclipse

Reality by Alexa Piper

Dangerous Trust by Tay1019411

Mother’s Intuition, Like Father, Like Son, and To Live and Learn by nycorrall

Not So Simple by Ella.Rose.x

Couldn’t be any Prouder by May-Rene

Dog Tag and Check-Ups by Happyleif

The Return by inukagome15

Mount Ivory by MoonrockBlink1772

Autograph by sarahhaley

A Thermos for Valerie by Bluemoonalto

Insight View by Raina Wolfe - Lateraina

Psychoanalysis by Eelfie

Ghostly Lament by SummersSixEcho

Crashing and Burning by GriffinRose

Not A Ghost by SerasianWind

Just a Night by CaptainOzone

No Exit by Elle Aitch

I Used to Love ThreeDay Weekends by zipporah grace

Karma has a Sense of Humor by Vitaliciouscreations

Endings and Beginnings by Cordria

Lurking Shadows by QuickWren

An Unlikely Alliance by Represent

Going Up by Danny Phantom SG-1

Dancing Lights by DizzlyPuzzled

Fatigue by DBack47

The Heartbeat After by Platonic

oooh boii this got even longer than the last one uhhhhh sorry??

OH and heres a bunch of field trip fics because I didnt really include any about the school finding out his secret

Stranded With My Class by RedHeadsRock1010  

Strength by WildFireBurnsTheForest 

Backpack by Coronalgnis 

Of Field Trips and Phantoms by Ironinkpen 

A Phantom Marooned by LordPugsy 

Field Trip by Destiny Obake 

Journey of Secrets by WolfKael  

The Elevator Game by Raina Wolfe - Lateraina 

Freeze Out by Raina Wolfe - Lateraina (Sequel to The Elevator Game) 

Entering The Mind Of An Unsuspecting Halfa by I heart the Hitachiin twins 

Personify: Into The Mind by NoSignalBlueScreen 

The Survivalists by Unlucky Alis

Accidental Portal by Emmazippy577 

Misery Island by lilyt789 

Worst Ski Trip Ever by sourpopsicles15 

have fun!!!!