Avoiding Past And Future

(54) Intermediate

CW: mentions of Zatara's opinions on Danny/Ghosts

October 20 - 22

The next day, Frostbite had returned with not only some extra supplies but also an old laptop. As it turned out, Danny's old rogue gallery had actually quite missed their regular brawls. In an attempt to help him recover faster, they had come together to help. Though most were words of encouragement or basic offers to spar, Technus had gifted an old laptop he had snatched from Tucker that one time he had everybody distracted with the kitchen appliance mech.

On it were all the files Danny had thought to be lost. Old blueprints and schematics for weapons but also their, very biased, research. Though their theories about ghosts themselves were wildly wrong, the science had always been on point. Ecto-research and how it interacted with specific materials went a long way for what they were trying to do.

Technus had added his own personal research as well. As their resident technologically inclined ghost and an inventor in his past life, Nicholai Technus had his own study material on how to make tech compatible with ecto. With the support of Skulker and his own suit, they had made a lot of break-throughs that would allow for them to create things not thought possible by the current human standard.

Bruce had focused on reworking the Batcomputer and all of their gadgets to be more ecto-friendly. No longer would they need to worry about Danny, Cujo or any other ghost accidentally messing with it by just existing.

If the entire system, of the Batcomputer, Mount Justice and Watchtower alike, crashed 4 times during this, no it didn't.

Technus had also added extremely handy notes to Tucker's research on how to actually ghost-proof technology. Though their biggest concern was Technus at the time, they were working on a whole bigger scale now. It would be a top priority disaster scenario if any ill-intentioned ghost could just possess and control the Batcomputer or even the entire Watchtower for that matter.

Dick had opted to focus on their little Zeta issue. The current system could not recognize Danny's ecto as a differentiation. And with them being identical twins, it automatically recognized him as Dick. Adding extra biometrics to ensure more than just a simple DNA sequence and a general appearance match would be needed for identification wasn't too hard.

The real issue was getting the damn thing to recognize ecto. As brain melting as that all was, even with the research Technus provided, they had no choice but to disable Robin's activation code until they got it fixed.

While Danny set to work on rebuilding the inhibitor collars, Frostbite assisted him with the exact specifics for his special one. He wanted to make different models depending on their need. His main focus was the one that would replace the damaged collar he wore now. No longer a bulky mess, they had managed to trim it down to a choker sized device. Tests with Dick's old suit proved it would be hidden quite well under the suit collar. Selina had joked he could add a little bell, to make it akin to a cat collar, but that idea was scrapped for the moment.

They had other models in the works too, backups for in case he needed emergency dampening or new powers he couldn't control emerged. Considering even Frostbite, leader of the most advanced medical civilization in the Ghost Zone, didn't know what to expect during Danny's healing process, it was best to be prepared.

It had taken them well into the next day of constant work before they had managed to reprogram the biometric trackers in the suit to read Danny's stats as they were his norm. After the 5th time alarms blared in the Batcave due to his ghostly abnormal heartrate and body temperature of course. That were a few hours spend with a migraine but still a major success none the less.

They had yet to manage to use the severely bootlegged blueprints used to make the old Fenton Phones to make new and improves Batphones, trademark pending. Though it was just a running joke Dick had started when he was new to the whole hero thing, it stuck. Bat-anything was always going to be a thing and nobody could fight it. Except for Selina who managed to cattify her equipment instead. Danny didn't mind it either, already way too used to the Drs Fenton slapping the Fenton name on every small thing created.