Eeeeeey
So I finished Danny Phantom...
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*cries*
But real talk it's so great omg.
So this fanfic is post-weirdmageddon and I know that there's just under a month until we see what will really happen, but whatever happens will not change the course of the story. Also, for the sake of plot no one outside the group that was at the Pole during Phantom Planet know Danny's secret.
A'ight?
A'ight.
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Chapter One
Aloha, Fallsie!
Sometimes Danny Fenton wished that he and his family could just have a normal family vacation.
But no, of course not. Instead, they were fighting a lumberjack ghost while driving down the dirt road to visit his aunt and her family in Gravity Falls- the sight of infamous Weirdmageddon not a year before.
Ah, to be a part of this family.
"Dude," Danny shouted, going intangible as the ghost's weapon sliced through him, "you just /had/ to have an axe, didn't you!?"
Danny, by the way, was half - ghost, so he could do that sort of thing.
"Don't worry, Danny!" Called his mother from the Family Assault Vehicle, "We got you!"
There was the sound like pulling a suction cup off of a window, and Danny dodged the Fenton Thermos, which sucked up the Lumberjack.
He sighed in relief, phasing through the roof of the Assault Vehicle.
Unghostifying, as his father called it, he caught his breath.
"What is it with the Northwest and lumberjacks?" He asked, "That's the third one to attack us."
"You're a bit of a target, Danny." Jazz said, " I don't want to scare you, but people want to kill you."
"Thanks for the reminder." Danny grumbled.
"Don't worry, sweetie." Their mom said, "We're on vacation! Let's try to relax."
"Exactly!" Jack boomed, "That's why I brought the Specter Detector! It'll find ghosts whenever they show up!"
"... Dad." Danny put his hand on his father's shoulder, "I don't mean to burst your bubble, but that's what my ghost sense is for."
Jack's eyebrows curled together, "Well, then whenever you're not around, we'll be safe!"
Danny shook his head, "Alright, then."
"So…" Jazz said a few minutes later, breaking the silence, "We haven't seen Wendy or Uncle Dan in so long. Do you think they're alright after all that happened?"
"I'm sure my brother is perfectly fine." Maddie said with a smile, "Dan's always been able to push through, and I'm sure Wendy and the boys are, too."
"We're just lucky that only who was at the South Pole know Danny's secret." Jazz said, "Otherwise, I think the people of Gravity Falls would tear you apart, Danny."
At Danny's expression, she laughed nervously and shut up.
"Let's just hope that nothing goes wrong this summer." Danny said, "Because we've had enough trouble for more than a lifetime."
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"Hello, again, Gravity Falls!" Mabel Pines dropped her bags in front of the Mystery Shack, grinning up at the research-facility-house-turned-tourist-trap that had been her home last summer. It was still standing after Weirdmageddon, and so was the town. Gravity Falls had picked itself up nicely, mostly with Grunkle Ford's help, and Mabel was happy that everything had turned out okay.
Her twin brother dropped his bags next to her as well. In the past year, Dipper had grown taller than Mabel by about an inch. His hair was long enough to pull back into a ponytail (He thought it looked cool, but it was so lame. Then again, so was Dipper), and he still had that hat.
Mabel hadn't given up on making sparkly things, especially after what had happened last summer. As long as something sparkled, there was light.
Or something deep and metaphorical like that.
Dipper grinned at her, "It's just great to be back here." He said, "I missed the weirdness of Gravity Falls."
Mabel elbowed him lightly, "C'mon, Bro-Bro. Let's get inside."
Shoving themselves through the door to the shack, Grunkle Stan came down the stairs, grinning like an idiot.
"Kids!" He shouted, running up and pulling them into a bear-hug, "I missed you guys!"
"We missed you, too!" Mabel squawked as her lungs were crushed from the force of the hug.
"I thought I heard you two." Came Grunkle Ford's voice from the Vending Machine. The Author stepped out from behind the machine and awkwardly stood there, before being practically glomped by Mabel and Dipper.
"We missed you, too, Great Uncle Ford!" Dipper said happily as the twins removed themselves from the hug.
Ford was grinning ear to ear, which was nice to see.
"Hey, kids." Stan said, "I wanna show ya somethin'."
Dipper's eyebrows shot up, "Is it illegal?"
"Probably."
"Awesome!"
Making their way behind the Vending Machine and down the elevator, Stan and Ford lead the way to the lab. The portal loomed over them- large and irritatingly triangular.
"Originally," Ford almost narrated, "the portal was designed to go to Bill's world and back. But through modifications, Stanley, McGucket and I have fixed it up a bit."
He was grinning ear to ear.
"How?" Dipper asked, "What'd you do?"
"Watch 'n learn, Dipper." Stan said, "Watch 'n learn."
"With increasing amounts of spectral activity in the world," Ford said, "the idea of an afterlife parallel to ours intrigued me. I asked Stanley and McGucket to help me, and they did."
"Wait." Dipper said, "You mean that you made-"
"You bet your bucket we did!" Ford grinned even wider, "A Ghost Portal- capable of, when opened, sending humans or specters both to and from what's known as the Ghost Zone."
Mabel's eyes were wide and shining, "Grunkle Ford and Grunkle Stan, this is so cool!"
"You only say that because you have a crush on Danny Phantom." Dipper teased, to which Mabel snorted.
"He's an attractive ghost kid, Dipper. What more can a girl want?"
"I just think it's dangerous, is all." Dipper criticized, crossing his arms, "After Vlad Masters turned out to be a ghost, and ghost threats are daily occurrences, I don't think it's safe to give them another way into our world."
Ford sighed, "And you have the right to your opinion, Dipper, but this thing is up and running, so you can't really do anything about it."
Dipper grumbled to himself. He would if he died trying.