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A neverborn is made by enough people believing in something that it becomes real.
By the time Damien became Robin a lot of people Believed in Robin, The Gotham citizens believed in Robin and Batman to protect them when it came down to it, The hero teams believed in their friends to always protect all they can, The past and present Robbins believed in themselves being able to protect each other, Lady Gotham believes in Robin and the rest of her knight to be able to protect her land, The rogues and criminals are all under the belief that Robin and Batman do everything in their power to p̶r̴o̶t̶e̷c̸t̷ everyone.
In a far corner next to Lady Gotham’s haunt in the infinity realm a small form was beginning to be made surrounded by all the beliefs of protection.
But as the baby neverborn was still growing a disturbance happened it made ripples in the infinity realm confusing it… changing fate… the not fully formed neverborn was moved by the realm making something else. Something of a balance between life and death in the form of a 20 year old man that got caught in a lab accident. And the neverborn lost ectoplasm It needed to grow from that accident. The neverborn would continue to absorb the belief but never truly form.
The infinity realms took pity on this neverborn they never would be six years later
(but we all know time works weird and wrong in the infinite realms)
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A family expecting their second child was born on the 12th of February. Six years after a lab accident that hospitalized their friend. Same day years earlier the first Robin took a step out on the Gotham streets. The baby was born in a small town named Amity Park. With dark black hair and bright blue eyes, A son and a young brother. The baby was named Daniel James Fenton.
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Jazz loved her little brother even though he was a handful. Even if she ended up taking care of him not their parents, even if he was a little different or strange she loved him anyway.
Danny (as she called him once and then he started to refuse to answer to, anything else after.) Learned to climb before he crawled. He would climb to the highest thing he could get his little hands on. She had to pull him down from so many lamps.
she was just glad they had no chandeliers...
She had to stop him from bringing home anything animal shaped too many times to count. He has had to get rabies shots just to ease her mind even more times.
The day he learned about glitter every cop and anyone that humped animals in the small town knows. She didn’t want to talk about how edible glitter got into all of his food no matter what she did…
TV shows with clowns in them were banned from their house when Danny was four. He would get enraged and start throwing everything in sight at the TV. (The sharpest thing was always directly at the clown on the TV.) The ban came after the 20th TV was broken by a flying toy.
At six he found a cup of coffee that their parents forgot about when they thought of a new experiment, and jazz hadn’t gotten to clean up yet. In just one sip he was in love and would ask for it always afterwards.
Danny would sneak out of his room to go to the roof and take pictures of the stars. He always loved taking pictures of his sister and animals
and his friends when they came in the picture.
When he was seven he had a phase
that didn’t really end
where he tried to make puns out of everything he could.
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He met Tucker in first grade at recess. He was watching the birds in the trees when he heard something off in the playground and couldn’t help his curiosity to check it out. He looked at the scene in front of him and all the kids were looking down at one saying something about him not being allowed to play with them because he is weird. When he saw the kids look like he was going to cry, he knew he had to step in and protect help the kid. He stepped in front of the kid and yelled,” hey at least he has a personality and doesn’t just do what others do!” Then before the other kid could say anything I grabbed the kid I just helped and went back to the tree I was at earlier.
I turn to face the other kid.” Hi I’m Danny, who are you?”
“ I'm Tucker, do you want to play together!”
“Yah!”
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I met Sam in second grade when Dash was being rude. I was just walking with Tucker when I heard,” go away Dash!” I turned my head over to see Dash and a girl in a black dress.
“ And why should I freak?” Dash respond rudely to the girl.
“ I was just minding my own business when you came over here!” The girl yells at Dash. I see Dash move his arm and something in me just knows he is going to hit her and that I need to protect her from him! I run up to dash without a thought and punch him right in the face. Dash Falls to the floor.
I quickly turned to the girl and said,” we have to go now!” And grab her hand as I start to run.
“ So who are you?” She asks as we run.
I look at her and say,” Danny you?”
“Sam, nice to meet you.” She says with a smile Tucker comes up on her right at that moment running with us.
“ I'm Tucker, I'm Danny’s friend. Do you want to be friends?” He excitedly asked her.
“ You know what, sure.” She says with a smirk.
“ sweet!” I yell as we all run away from Dash.
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He couldn’t help himself. He had to see why the portal is so important. It was so important that they forgot his birthday… so when his friends asked to see it, he took them down there. And then Sam wanted a picture and he said no but she was going to go in there and he can’t let her do that after all he has to protect his friends.
“FINE! Fine…” I say as I go over to the wall and grab a hazmat suit even if it doesn't help it’s better than nothing. I walk over to the portal.
“Wait!” Sam yells behind me. I turned to look at her to see her scribbling on a sticky note. She tears it off and runs over to me then slaps it on my chest.” That’s better.” She says with a smile.
I looked back at the portal and took a deep breath before I went in. I turn around and pose as she takes a photo before asking me to go farther back for a better one. So I take a couple steps backwards… I should have been looking where I was going cause in two steps I tripped on some wires. I tried to grab the wall but I just heard a click before pain.
I was in pain, I know I was dying. Then something familiar surrounded me and balanced with the pain. It hurt but also felt safe like home, like a warm milk before bed as he looks at the stars on the TV. The stars that always felt safe as if someone was watching, keeping us protected from up there. Then they were both gone, the pain and the safe feeling.
Then he heard muffled yelling and hands were grabbing him. Then the sound starts to come back. The first thing he heard was Sam and Tucker.
“Danny!” Both Sam and Tucker yelled.
“ Danny please wake up please!” Tucker cried out.
Why is Tucker crying…
“ Danny, I'm sorry! I’m so sorry…” Sam sobbed.
Why is Sam sorry...I protected them right?...
They shouldn’t be crying … Danny groggily opens his eyes to see the lab and his friends sobbing over him. The memories from the day come rushing over him. he known in that moment he had to make his friends smile.
“ Did you get my good side in the pic?” He groggily asks, sounding as if he just woke up from a deep sleep.
“ What?" Sam tearfully asks, probably in shock.
“ Well I hope it was an electric pic!” I laugh, my two friends just jump at me and hug me.
“ I'm glad you’re OK, you idiot.” Tucker says tearfully but relief was in his voice.
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Vlad was in second place on his hate ranking. Obviously clowns were first. Vlad is such a creepy old Fruitloop ancients I hate him. I wouldn’t be shocked if he was the kind of guy to make his own heir, then train and manipulate them to kill someone just for his own gain and then abandon them the moment they are not up to his standards anymore…
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Fuck You Vlad! I hate that you made me right about you… oh well, Dani is mine now and you can’t have her back!
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Even though Dan did some bad things, he still wanted to help him. So he sent him to clockwork for help if he chooses to take it. And if he does then I would be there every step of the way.
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He woke up feeling like something was going to go wrong today. It caused him to be tense all day. It was getting close to the end of the day. I guess that the feeling is wrong. Just then a bang came from my window. I snapped my head over to it, just to see Dani falling through my wall with the window on it. I immediately rushed over to her.”Dani, are you ok!?”
She looks at me with a Lupe sad smile.”Ellie now actually.” She says with a cough, right after she curls into herself in pain.
“Da-Ellie, what’s wrong!” I panicked.
“ I’m dissolving...and the shots... didn’t work,“ she says, scared.
“Shit! OK, OK I’m going to help, so it’s gonna be OK! I’ll get you to frostbite. He will know how to help you.” I tried to reassure her as I rushed down the stairs with her in my arms. I skip steps just to get to the bottom faster. I throw myself into the portal and immediately fly to Frostbites.
By the time I got there her form was almost completely gone. I rush to where I can feel frostbite.” Frostbite!” I yell when I see him.
“Oh! Great O-“ he stops when he sees Ellie, his eyes go wide in shock, “ follow me.” He says seriously as he rushes to his clinic room. I immediately set her down on the bed when I can. Frostbite started working immediately on her after I sent her down.
After a long time, frostbite turns to me.” she will survive but she will be younger, specifically a four year old.” He explained to me.
“ Will this change anything else except physically?” I asked him worriedly.
“Her mindset will be that of a child.”
“ I see.” I sadly responded. I will love and protect her the same. But if her mind is that young then I will need to start caring for her as my kid. “ Frostbite, I’m staying here for the night with her.” I tell him, not ask.
“ understandable, great one“ he says as he leaves.
Later that night clockwork shows up.
“ Daniel,” at the sound of Clockwork's voice I turn away from Ellie, who I haven’t stopped looking at before now.
“ Clockwork why are you here?”
“ I will tell you that later but first I believe you have some questions for me.”He says calmly as he floats in front of me. I look down. There’s a lot I could ask but the most important right now has to be why Ellie dissolved like that, it can’t be just because she’s a clone after all the shots didn’t work this time. I look back at the child sized clockwork. After a couple tries of me just opening and closing my mouth, my question finally comes out,” why did it really happen?”
“Mh.” He thinks with a thoughtful face. When he starts talking his form switches to an older man.” Well, with you not supposed to be a human at first, her DNA was not full in the way she needed without the realms interfering to make her complete.” CW happily explains.
“ What do you mean I wasn’t supposed to be human!?” I asked CW with wide eyes.
“ You were at first supposed to be a neverborn but as you were being made the realms lose some ectoplasm because of vlad becoming a halfa, so Fate had to change so you could truly live.” He explains.
There was silent for a long time as I try to understand where I had been just told.” What was I neverborn off?” I hesitantly ask. CW stares at me for a little while in a breath he turns into a young adult before he opens his mouth.
“ A believe of a vigilante in a City outside of Amity Park. Somewhere in New Jersey."
that cryptic bastard explaining things in half’s. I think with a sigh, before I could ask anything else CW starts talking again. “ It seems I need to leave, but first!” He hands me a sleeping kid as he speaks.
“What-“
“ He chose this to truly redeem himself.”
“Wait-“ but CW just smirks and teleports away. I looked down at the kid and got a good look at him for the first time.The kid was a seven-year-old with familiar floating white hair...Dan...Dan was peacefully sleeping on me with small snores that sounded like little purrs from a kitten. Well it’s not too bad after all I was already going to take care of Ellie when she woke up so what’s one more baby. A small smile forms on my face. I always wanted a big family. I guess in the end I made my own.
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I step out of the portal and turn back to my alive form. I looked behind me to see Ellie and Dan still in their ghost forms, I opened my mouth to ask them to turn back but before I could. I heard a familiar man's voice,” you!” I snap my head around to see the owner of the voice.
“ Mom,Dad, I can explain!” I rush out but they look coldly at me and point their weapons at me before I can explain.
“You ghost scam. Think we would believe you are our son!” Mom sneers at me.
“ papa….”Ellie whispers behind me. It quickly snaps me out of my shock, no matter what happens I have to protect my kids!
“ run!” I yell to them, Ellie hesitates but Dan grabs her and flies through the wall not even a second later gunshots ring out.