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Crime, Love, and Ghosts. (And others, Probably)

Chapter 61: On The Same Page

Summary:

They Die For This is tired of being in the dark, especially when they have all the pieces- they just need to put them together.

Notes:

WHAT'S UP. HI. I have another chapter :) finally :) and it's almost double my normal length too so that's fun!

Thank you so so much to CottonCandy in the discord server for this fic (join link in the end notes) fo saying something so sweet it took a sledgehammer to my writers block. I owe you this one! Another thanks to my beta Silvie as well!

Let's do this thing

Username Directory:

TheyDieForThis
Chaos - Sam
Zombie_Bird - Jason
SPITEandCAFFEINE - Tim
MyPalVal - Valerie
Friar Tuck - Tucker
PurpleWaffles - Stephanie
JazzHands - Jazz
The Kon Man - Kon
Musical-Snek-Boi - Luka

(I decided to only include the relevant usernames this time!)

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

GROUPCHAT - TheyDieForThis

 

Chaos

So that went.

Badly.

 

Friar Tuck

They’re just better than us

Are we allowed to admit that yet?

 

MyPalVal

Absolutely not

They have some advantages, sure, but they’re not better

 

JazzHands

They are a bit better, Val

Denial isn’t healthy

 

PurpleWaffles

We really need to invest in more training

Resources??

Anything, really

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

Well, at least Snek did well for his first battle

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

Thank you!

 

Zombie_Bird

CODE RED

The rockets are gone

They got their freaking stuff back

Frick

 

Chaos

Yeah I noticed the swords were gone just before GB called for battle

He’s so smug about it too!

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

Well that’s. Not good.

 

PurpleWaffles

Isn’t that one of their win conditions?

 

Friar Tuck

Yes.

Yes it is.

 

The Kon Man

Oof

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

Ah okay

So I take it we’re really behind then

 

Chaos

OH YEAH WE’RE BEHIND

Because you know what??

The other team?

They already know everything.

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

Ah. Yep.

 

MyPalVal

Seems like it.

 

The Kon Man

Yeahhhh

 

Zombie_Bird

That’s something we can fix though, right now

I’m willing to bet that everyone here is smart enough to figure it out anyway

 

PurpleWaffles

Jason. Uh. What are you doing.

 

Chaos

Oh yeah, absolutely

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

This is interesting

 

Zombie_Bird

I’m doing what the other team apparently did freaking ages ago!

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

I agree actually

Why not? Clear the air

 

Zombie_Bird

I’m gonna ask a straightforward question that I already know the answer to. Answer truthfully.

 

Chaos

Of course

 

Zombie_Bird

Is GB Phantom?

 

Chaos

Yep.

 

Friar Tuck

Yeah

 

MyPalVal

Sure is

 

JazzHands

He better be

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

It’s going to be fun watching this, given that I’ve already revealed my identity

 

PurpleWaffles

Jeez okay so-

Wait what about the ‘over a millenia old’ thing?

 

Chaos

Unfortunately.

Time Travel.

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

I KNEW IT.

 

Zombie_Bird

Oh I hate that

 

Friar Tuck

SO DID I. IT WAS STRESSFUL.

 

PurpleWaffles

You were there????

 

Chaos

Yeah both of us were

The histories don’t talk about the two random human teenagers that were with him, though

So. Y’know.

 

Zombie_Bird

Huh. Didn’t know you two were so well travelled.

 

Friar Tuck

Trust me I wish I wasn’t

 

MyPalVal

Never was I so glad to have missed an adventure as when I heard about that

 

JazzHands

Agreed.

 

Chaos

Wait so fun fact

That I can talk about now

We timetravelled using something called the infimap, right?

 

Friar Tuck

Why are we namedropping the infimap?

 

Zombie_Bird

Okay, sure

What about it?

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

You guys mention so many things I have never heard of

 

Chaos

It’s a ghost relic that ‘takes you where you need to be’

And it does not care about time or space when it does that

The infimap adventure we had lasted months , since we were chasing the guy who actually had it, and he kept MESSING UP places so then GB had to Fix Things

 

PurpleWaffles

That’s the other guy in the myths!

The weird blue demon guy!

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

Ohhhh yeah that guy

Forgot about him

 

Zombie_Bird

He wasn’t relevant

 

Friar Tuck

We were stuck in that time-travelling cycle for MONTHS.

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

Oh relatable

Sometimes I spend days going through the same five minutes trying to get it right

 

Friar Tuck

….Okay well now I feel bad for complaining

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

We all have our problems and we’re all valid

 

JazzHands

Perfectly put

 

Chaos

Okay so yeah anyway

Ghost Boy. Danny Phantom. My best friend. IDIOT THAT HE IS.

He used the infimap to get the swords and rockets back.

 

Friar Tuck

He WHAT

 

Zombie_Bird

Wait hold on a second

GB used a volatile time travel device

To get the stuff back???

 

MyPalVal

And that worked?

 

PurpleWaffles

Jeez

 

JazzHands

Danny and I will be having. Words.

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

Wait wait wait- was he alone for this?

Like, did he bring any of his teammates?

 

The Kon Man

That would be wild if he did

 

Zombie_Bird

He better not have

 

Chaos

He did yeah

 

Zombie_Bird

Frick

 

Chaos

I don’t know all who went

But I know Bloodson did

So do with that information what you will

 

Zombie_Bird

We will be having words.

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

They achieved their goal though, didn’t they?

And it doesn’t seem like they retrieved them sometime in the past

If the map takes you where you’re supposed to be- then it may have just taken them straight to their stuff

 

Chaos

I get the feeling that isn’t the case actually

Since he said something like “Now that BloodSon is a Ninja”

And I know we met ancient Ninjas on our last time travel road trip

 

JazzHands

Danny.

 

PurpleWaffles

Okay so as cool and concerning as that is we got waaaaay off topic

If GB is Phantom, then Ellie is Phantom 2 electric boogaloo isn’t she?

 

Friar Tuck

I don’t think you need to use that whole title

 

MyPalVal

She is, yes

 

Zombie_Bird

Okay I have to ask

 

JazzHands

Oh we’re going to leave the topic again aren’t we

 

Zombie_Bird

WHY isn’t she in any family photos?

Or mentioned in GB’s household at all?

It’s like she doesn’t exist

 

Friar Tuck

You could say

It’s like

She’s a ghost

 

PurpleWaffles

Ha

 

Chaos

Tuck I will kill you

And then beat you up when you inevitably come back as a ghost

 

Friar Tuck

Jeez okay

 

MyPalVal

You guys remember the blue guy who stole the infimap, right?

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

If by remember you mean we were just reminded he’s a thing

Then yes

 

MyPalVal

Okay so

He has a weird obsession with GB

And so he cloned him that one time

But it failed weirdly

And that’s how we got Ellie

 

Zombie_Bird

Oh jeez okay

 

The Kon Man

Neat!

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

Is it. Is it neat?

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

Oh Kon that’s super cool for you

She’s living in your house right now, right?

You could talk to her about it!

 

The Kon Man

Haha yeah

I could

I should do that

 

Chaos

Wait why are we talking to her about it?

 

The Kon Man

Since we’re sharing secrets

I’m the older Superboy

 

Friar Tuck

Yeah we figured

 

MyPalVal

Yep.

 

The Kon Man

I’m also a ~Superman clone~

That’s how I happened

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

This makes sense

 

Friar Tuck

Ohhhhhhh

Okay

 

MyPalVal

Okay then you should talk to her about it

War notwithstanding

She needs some solidarity

 

PurpleWaffles

Wait hold on I just realized

Your parents are ghost hunters

THAT’S why she’s not in any of the pictures!

THEY DON’T KNOW

 

JazzHands

That they do NOT

And it’s going to stay that way

 

Zombie_Bird

Understood 100%

Are you guys okay actually?

Does GB need help?

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

This makes Ellie’s weird homelessness make sense

Wow

 

MyPalVal

He’d tell you he’s fine

And he is

He’s just walking the edge

 

PurpleWaffles

Okay so NOT fine then

 

Friar Tuck

Basically

 

JazzHands

OFF TOPIC.

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

This deserves to be talked about actually

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

I agree

 

JazzHands

Okay we will

Later

Val is the Red Huntress

 

MyPalVal

HEY.

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

We figured

 

Zombie_Bird

Yeah

 

MyPalVal

I mean yeah but you didn’t have to out me so bluntly

Jeez

 

JazzHands

Sorry

 

Chaos

Jazz, Tuck and I are all civilians

Or at least something close to it

We don’t have powers and we don’t really fight

 

PurpleWaffles

You’re support that counts

 

Friar Tuck

Oh really?

Neat!

 

JazzHands

And I do have that one mechsuit

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

You have a mechsuit???

 

Chaos

The Fenton Peeler.

I know it well.

 

Zombie_Bird

WHY have I never seen this?

 

JazzHands

It’s heavy

 

PurpleWaffles

Oh okay

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

Makes sense

 

Chaos

And the rest of you are bats, right?

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

Red Robin reporting for. This.

 

PurpleWaffles

Spoiler!

 

Zombie_Bird

Red Hood.

 

Friar Tuck

Coooool

Cool cool cool

 

Zombie_Bird

Scared?

 

Friar Tuck

Not gonna lie

A little

 

Zombie_Bird

Awww

Don’t worry

I like you

 

Friar Tuck

Got it

 

Chaos

It’s no different than Danny

We literally know he has the power to end the world

 

MyPalVal

Another time travel adventure I am so glad I wasn’t there for

 

Friar Tuck

Your kick-butt adult self was

 

Chaos

I think she died though

 

PurpleWaffles

What.

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

Oh that happened to our team once or twice

Not fun

 

JazzHands

Okay SWIFTLY moving on from that topic

Is there any other identities or anything that needs to be discussed?

 

Zombie_Bird

I don’t think so, no

 

Chaos

Sounds about right, right?

 

MyPalVal

I’m good

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

Wait wait

We still don’t know who the miraculous holders on the other side are

 

Chaos

Snek, you’re up

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

Okay

I took a look at the member list in the war meeting chat

And I am pleased to report that I think I know who their teacher is

 

Zombie_Bird

WHAT

 

MyPalVal

OHOHO

HOW THE TABLES HAVE TURNED

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

Mention this earlier???

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

There were other things happening.

 

Chaos

AND????

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

It’s definitely Ladybug

 

Friar Tuck

That. Makes sense.

 

PurpleWaffles

Okay yeah

Leader, and all

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

Oh I can definitely see that

She really is a good leader, and with her reflexes I’d imagine she’d be good at videogames

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

Yeah, she’s won high profile gaming competitions before

 

Chaos

Really?

Darn.

 

Zombie_Bird

Huh okay

Tim and I theorized that LadyPizza was Ladybug though, because of the name similarities

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

See

I think she is

I don’t actually recognize that tag, I thought it was weird

And when we were playing she tried to mask her style but

I know her too well :) 

 

PurpleWaffles

My nemesis…

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

So we’ve just been actually playing with the fabled Teacher for weeks?

And we didn’t catch on?

 

Zombie_Bird

Because we’ve been so good at catching on to things recently

 

MyPalVal

I felt that one. Ow.

 

Chaos

What about the rest?

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

Right well

My Little Robot is Pegasus, I recognize him

 

Zombie_Bird

We figured that one out

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

We were stuck on Double A

He’s genuinely kind of a sweetheart

And when we met you guys I wouldn’t use those words to describe anyone there

 

MyPalVal

He is really nice

He told me how nice my legendary sword was

Seemed genuinely excited

 

PurpleWaffles

He told me he also loves waffles

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

Okay so this is gonna be fun

This happens any time anyone learns his identity

 

Friar Tuck

Oh no

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

Believe it or not

Double A is Chat Noir

 

Zombie_Bird

EXCUSE ME?

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

H U H ?

 

Chaos

No freaking way what

 

PurpleWaffles

Leather. Catboy.

 

The Kon Man

That’s funny

This is really funny

 

MyPalVal

Uhhh

UH?

 

Friar Tuck

I never would have thought

In a MILLION years

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

Yeah he has a very effective secret

 

Zombie_Bird

Hmmm reminds me of Bruce, sort of.

 

Chaos

Okay don’t know how I didn’t put this together earlier

But Bruce Wayne is Batman

 

PurpleWaffles

Yep.

 

Friar Tuck

Holy crap

 

Chaos

HA

If my mom knew…

I mean obviously I’m not gonna say anything but

Gosh that’s a funny reaction to imagine

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

Yeah I guess his is also pretty effective isn’t it

 

PurpleWaffles

Wait wait wait wait wait Tim

TIM

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

Jeez what

 

PurpleWaffles

The Miraculous group is about to get here

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

Oh no is that the time?

 

Chaos

Isn’t it super early for you??

 

Musical-Snek-Boy

We all woke up for the fight

 

Friar Tuck

And we STILL got our butts kicked…

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

Well

This should be interesting

 

Musical-Snek-Boi

Should be yeah

 

Zombie_Bird

Well this was productive

They may have won a battle and gotten their stuff back

But we’re all on the same page

And we know who their teacher is

One of our win conditions

 

The Kon Man

We’re neck and neck

You’ll have to tell us how the evening goes

 

SPITEandCAFFEINE

We’ll be sure to

Notes:

Well this was fun! Most of this was written today in a fervent haze lol. Living proof that genuine encouragement works wonders. Once again, the characters did what they wanted lol. Inbetween updates, I finally managed to get the magic of ~outlines~ into my head, and so I actually left notes at the end of the fic for what I want to happen. I have also learned that, at least with chatfic, you've gotta leave the notes VAGUE. Writing it flows like a conversation does- you've just gotta be in every character's head at once, and reply like they would. So they kinda do what they want.

Oh yeah btw I got married!! That was another reason everything took so long. I have barely posted anything this year, because we were so busy preparing for the marriage, and then settling into marriage life has been fun but a Huge life change ofc. Plus I got hit over the head with a very unexpected new hyperfixation that hasn't left me since NOVEMBER. (If any of you know what the Life Series is. Uhhh yeah lol.)

But I'm REALLY happy to have gotten this out :D It always feels good to come back <3

Question Of The Day: The main character of the last show/movie you watched joins the WDFJ club. What happens? The last movie I watched was Kpop Demon Hunters, so I think everyone would go even MORE insane at yet another celebrity joining this mess lol.

Until Next Time!

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