Hey, Everyone! It's Jammer14 with my first Shadow Children Series Crossover! I'm excited about this one, so let's see how it goes! As it is with all my stories, I update sooner after I get five reviews! Enjoy!:
One
One second they were there, the next second they weren't.
That's the best that Luke Garner could describe what had happened.
He and Jen had been in the Talbots' living room, casually eating cookies and sharing stories when the two of them were teleported to what looked like a basement laboratory.
Luke still had a cookie in his hand, but immediately dropped it when he realized what had happened.
"J-Jen?" he said. "Wh-where are we?"
Jen looked around curiously. "I don't know, actually," she replied.
Luke had to fight down a panic attack. "The Population Police!" he stammered. "W-what if they're up to this? They may have found out—"
"Chill out, dude!" said Jen as she playfully slugged Luke in the arm. "The Population Police would never be able to pull this off."
"Then-how—" began Luke, but he was cut off by the sound of people coming down the stairs.
"Hide!" Luke whispered loudly.
Being a forbidden third child like Luke, Jen didn't hesitate.
She found a cabinet under a desk big enough for the two of them to squeeze into.
Luke closed the door as much as he could and waited. His heart raced and he feared whoever had just entered the lab could hear it.
"I'm really upset, Maddie," said a man's voice. "No one mentioned our new invention in today's newspaper. It was our best one yet!"
"Well, Jack, it won't matter until we catch that ghost brat, Danny Phantom," said a woman Luke assumed to be Maddie. "I know what will cheer you up! Why don't we go to the Nasty Burger for lunch?"
Jack sighed. "Okay, fine," he said. "But let me put this thing away, first."
Suddenly, the cabinet door opened. Luke was about to panic, but Jen clamped her hand over his mouth.
A newspaper was shoved in and the door was slammed shut.
Luke and Jen waited until the sound of footsteps vanished, then another five minutes (just to be safe), before getting out of the cabinet.
"That was close," said Jen as she got up and stretched.
Luke looked at the newspaper on the floor and did a double take. "Jen," he whispered shakily. "Look at the date on the newspaper."
Jen picked up the newspaper and gawked at it. "This is five years before the Population Law was passed! Do you know what this means?"
"That we need to figure out how to go forward in time seventeen years?" Luke supplied.
"No!" said Jen. "It means that we're free!" She turned around and ran out of the lab.
"Jen!" said Luke desperately. He had no choice to follow her out of the lab, up a flight of stairs, and into a kitchen before finally catching up to her.
Luke grabbed her arm. "Jen! We just can't go running around like this!"
"Don't you get it, Luke?" asked Jen. "We're free! We don't have to worry about the Population Police anymore!"
Luke let go of her arm. "We may not have to worry about them anymore," he admitted. "But we still have to worry about the regular police who can still arrest us for trespassing!"
"And you just figured that out!" said the voice of a teenage boy.
Luke and Jen whirled around to see a fourteen year old boy and a girl a couple of years older than him standing in the doorway. Both teens' arms were crossed.
"I-we-uh-we-I-we-uh—" stammered Luke.
Jen rolled her eyes and took over. "Sorry for breaking into your house," she said. "We-we just have no place to go!"
The girl showed a look of sympathy. "You poor things!" she said.
The boy glared at her. "Jazz!" he said. Luke noticed that the boy had Snow White hair and glowing green eyes. He also wore a black body suit with white hands and feet and on his chest was a capital, white, italicized, flaming letter D on his chest.
"Come on, Danny," said the girl-Jazz- as she stepped towards the fridge. "If you knew anything about psychology, which you should since you're the town super hero, then you'd know that they really didn't mean to do anything wrong!"
Luke saw that Jazz had orange hair with a light blue headband and wore a black shirt, light blue pants and black flats.
"But Jazz—" protested Danny.
"There's no point in arguing!" interrupted Jazz. "It's not like they have bad intentions. I'm telling you, this is all psychology!" She turned to Luke and Jen. "Where are your parents?"
"Very far from here," said Jen. "We have travel around night to night, looking for places to stay."
"You two can sit down and I'll get you guys something to eat," said Jazz as she smiled sympathetically. "Then, I'm gonna call my parents and ask them about letting you two stay here for a couple of nights."
"Jazz!" said Danny, but his sister glared at him, ending the argument.
So how do you like the crossover so far? Please let me know by reviewing! And if I get five positive reviews, I'll upload the second chapter immediately. I'm excited about this story, so I hope it goes well.
~Jameer14