Tale of the Zone
"Great news kids! We have decided where we should do our family bonding time this summer!" The Fenton adults announced one morning, making Jazz choke on her tea and a sleepy Danny made a head plant into a bowl of fruit loops.
"Oh no..." The children muttered, whenever the Fentons took a trip for a family bonding time, minus the one where Youngblood made a complete fool of them, almost every Fenton family trips resulted in them chasing after ghosts. Actually, all of the Fenton family trips resulted in chasing ghosts.
"It's summer vacation and where else should we spend our time together than in...!" Oh yeah, both sibling refused to go anywhere this summer, wanting to stay back at Amity to relax and secretly battled ghosts at odd hours and finishing reports for Yale scholarships.
They were dreading to find out the location of their next excursion.
"THE GHOST ZONE!"
Jazz and Danny fell to the floor simultaneously.
"WHAATTT?" they both stood up and yelled, "ARE YOU CRAZY?" in perfect unison that others might wonder if they rehearsed before.
"Why the GHOST ZONE?"
"It's crawling with scary unidentified ghosts! And 90 percent of them practically hate me!"
"Theres no apparent night or day in the GHOST ZONE!"
"You'll be attacked by ghosts like Skulker and Walker, and they'll be using you to get to me, because I'M A HALF-GHOST!"
Jazz realized that through their panicked shouting Danny was shouting out his secret. She gave her brother a nice punch to the shoulder, making him yelp and glared at her with a 'What?' expression, Jazz covered her mouth from their parents and muttered under her breath, hoping that Danny could catch it with his enhanced hearing, "You're yelling out that you're a ghost."
Danny eyes widened as he covered his mouth with his hand, eyeing their parent warily.
They look confused with the sibling sudden synchronized shouting, and Jazz took the plunge, hoping that both of them didn't hear what Danny had said.
"What possessed you to suddenly decide that we should have a family bonding time in the Ghost Zone of all places?" She asked.
Jack and Maddie Fenton shook their head in confusion, the only sentence registered in their brain is Jazz question.
"Well honey, it's because we've wanted to check out the ghost zone for a while now. And yesterday an old radio popped out from the portal! And you know what?" Maddie face was practically glowing.
"What...?" The children asked, half glad because their parent didn't notice and half worrying.
"It's my old radio from my college days! And it still works!" Jack pulled out an old wood radio, spinning it's knob to search for a station, stopping at ghost watch channel.
"It's been a pleasant day today as neither Inviso-Bill or the box ghost had made any appearances over the town. Are the ghosts taking time off for the summer break too? We'll never know. This is Tiffany of Ghost Watch. Now we'll turn to Lance for the weather report." The radio announced.
"Finally! Something that I'm supposed to do! This is Lance Thunder. Now there'll be a dry season over the weekend with occasional drizzle in the morning, but..." The Fentons tuned out the rest.
"So...? You found your radio." Danny stared at the old radio, "And I'm pretty sure that one came from Vlad's house." He muttered under his breath, ignoring Lance voice insisting that they'll be a giant thunderstorm hovering against the eastern Amity Sky, advising the inhabitants of that area to not use too much electricity material, especially the Fentons who lived there. None of the Fentons heard him.
"But then if were in there doing our family bonding time," Jazz air quoted, "Who's going to keep Amity from being overrun by ghosts that use our portal to escape to this side?"
"Ghosts came out of our portal? I KNEW IT! I should've installed a counter in that thing!"
"I already did, but dad somehow managed to turn it into a 'How many button you can press on the keypad counter'. I really should install it somewhere more hidden..." Danny whispered to Jazz, "You know the handle on the weapons vault? I had installed that twice! But when I came back to check, the inside handle is missing again."
Jazz spied the fridge that hold many of their food now sported a shiny oversized handle fit for a military blast door. How on earth did she manage not to notice that? Probably because they kept evading the fridge...
"Oh how I'm going to lecture him on this..." She silently fumed.
Maddie appeared right beside the orange clad hunter, "Jack honey, we know that already. That's why we made the new and improved ecto-shield."
Jack swept her into an over dramatic hug... "That's right Mads! And this shield covers our entire house!"
"... is this the reason you mutilated half of our house?" Jazz was struggling to keep her cool. Their parents just one day blasted both of their walls and she had to endure sleeping with the bathroom and Danny in her sight for a week!
And dad had no problem bathing without walls! How she suffered, oh how she suffered...
Jack pulled out a huge remote that suspiciously looked like an oversized RC remote controller.
"Hey! That was my RC Space Columbia shuttle remote! I've been searching for that!" Danny pointed to it with a shaky hand.
Apparently it was.
"I'm only borrowing it Danny-boy. Because this is a history on the making!" He flocked a few switches on the controller.
"We're going to try out the first prototype of full humans and ghost shield!" Maddie hugged her husband large frame, her fingers reaching towards the final switch Jack finger hovered on.
"WAIT!"
"BANZAI!" Jack and Maddie shouted as they pushed the switch up. Ignoring the panicked shout of their children.
A roar rumbled the house, an earthquake like tremble shook the objects inside the house, knocking them down from their respected places.
"Whats going on?" Jazz shouted, her voice trembled. She was crouching under the dining table with Danny.
The two adults just stood there in the middle of chaos, frowning. "Huh? That wasn't supposed to happen..." Jack muttered.
Suddenly the house gravity disappeared, and everything start floating a few inches higher.
"Wha..? Mom! Dad! Whats going on? Why does it suddenly felt like we're falling?" Jazz shouted in panic, her brother arm securing her on the floor while the adults floated in the zero-gravity environment, not even fazed with the fact that they are in fact, falling.
Although Jack was trying his best flapping his arms, mimicking a bird.
"Did we cross a wire somewhere?" Maddie crossed her legs in mid-air, tapping her chin as she thought.
Jack bounced around the room, bumping into a jar of cookie on his way, happily opened the jar and reached in for one, "You think Mads? But we did everything exactly! The mini prototype worked like a charm!", he munched on the cookie, crumbs trailing behind him.
"Maybe it's the scale... The small prototype is a sterile prototype, maybe something in the house was interfering with the circuits." Maddie snatched away the cookie jar from her protesting husband hands, placing it on the still floating table with two gaping teen underneath.
BOOM!
The ground suddenly halted before them, the furniture landing right back on their places, Maddie did a twist in the air as she landed with an agility of a cat, Jack slammed face down on the floor, Jazz almost did a face plant and Danny silently erected an energy field surrounding his family as the house landed.
It was still for a few minutes.
"Did we just fell 13'000 feet, in our house and not get destroyed?" It was Danny who broke the silence, he didnt feel the impact of his shield breaking. In fact, the only thing he feel is the adrenalin in his veins and none, the house didn't explode like it should have.
"Hey! It's the ghost zone! And the shield works!" Jack was at the window, pushing his hand toward a translucent green shield right in front if the window. His hand did not pass through.
It was the ghost zone all right, how could he forget the creepy green and purple glow of the ghost zone? The doors and ghosts flying around? Skulker island in the distance?
"Lets test this with a ghost!" Jack brandished a thermos out of nowhere and passed the release button.
"BEWARE! FOR I AM THE BOX...!"
PANG!
The box ghost was sent flying straight towards the shield courtesy of Maddie Anti-Creep bat, an audible squishy splat followed.
"The shield works nicely." She purred, "But it seems that we're having a family bonding time a little early kids!"
Jazz and Danny stood speechless. With their house? In the Ghost Zone?
"Excuse me while I go bang my head against the wall." Danny muttered, heading towards the stair.
"Oh no little brother, not until I bang MY head against the wall." Jazz argued, following him.
"We'll do it together then." Danny suggested, facing the understair wall.
"...Agreed. On mark."
They both gave a shout and named their heads against the wall as hard as they could. It only took one shout and they're quickly knocked out as their forehead collided with the thick wall of the back side of the Fenton weapons vault.
"I say they agreed!" Jack announced in triumph while Maddie poked both of her unconscious children.
- Back at Amity Park, Previously The Fenton Residence -
An empty spot is what was left, a deep trench of what supposed to be the lab carved deep into the earth, external pipes leaking. Even the backyard and the side alley belonged to them disappeared. Leaving behind a huge empty spot of what supposed to be the Fenton Works.
"Wow..." Tucker mouthed, awed. "When they move, they really moved!"
Sam gave him a nice smack to the back of his head, making him fall into the trench.
Huh... It's kinda hard uploading stuff through a mobile. Tell me of any misspelling or auto-corrects. That thing just loves to auto-correct me, not an ideal platform to write.