Danny Fenton went over every last calculation. With everything checked and double checked, the ghost portal was finally ready to be activated.
All around him people in lab coats were hurrying to do their individual jobs. The technicians were busy working on the last minute touches of the ghost portal, which towered over everyone by twenty feet. Danny looked up to a skinny black man wearing an identical lab coat, glasses and an orange baseball cap telling the technicians what to do. He glanced down at Danny. A big smile appeared on his face and he nodded to him and gave Danny a thumbs up.
Danny returned the gesture, shook his head and smiled. Tucker Foley was the lead technician and Danny's best friend. He had been with him since the beginning. Ever since the ghost portal was just a crazy idea his father had. A small man came up to Danny.
"Dr. Fenton, everything is ready, we are just waiting for your final word." Danny smiled to himself. He still couldn't believe he was in charge of this entire operation. It was not to long ago that it was only himself and Tucker that had been working on the ghost portal in his basement.
Ever since his father died, Danny had dedicated his life to finishing his work by making a fully functional portal into the ghost zone. Even though his father had been very wealthy from making his different inventions for the government, he still couldn't provide all the necessary funds to make the ghost portal. All hopes of making his father's dream a reality had seemed lost.
Until a man by the name of Vlad Masters had come to Danny and offered to give him all the money he needed to make the portal. Masters had represented a small government agency called The Afterlife that specialized in studying ghosts and other spectral anomalies. He had offered Danny all the money he needed plus, all of the agency's resources and manpower.
Vlad had also been a close friend of his father's. Jack Fenton, Danny's father, had sold his ghost hunting inventions to The Afterlife for many years and worked with them on some special cases.
Now Danny was following in his father's footsteps. It had taken him four years of hard work to get to this point. The ghost portal was ready to be activated. With this portal activated, The Afterlife could learn a number of different things about an entire different side of humanity, not to mention the kind of resources that might come from the ghost zone. Danny could hardly contain his joy.
"Dr. Fenton?" Danny was snapped out of his daydreams by his assistant still awaiting his final order.
"Right," Danny said. "Ok I want you to get those technicians away from the portal and have everyone come back to the safety platform." His assistant nodded and quickly ran off to get those things done. Danny walked up the stairs to the safety platform and took his place behind the special reinforced glass.
When the ghost portal was activated, there was a chance that anyone in a one hundred foot radius would be contaminated with ecto-radiation. That was why everyone had taken safety behind the glass on the platform over looking the portal. The ghost portal was in a room the size of a gymnasium. The workstations to operate it were also behind the safety glass.
Danny was busy looking at his clipboard and going over his calculations for the umpteenth time when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned around to see Vlad Masters. The older man smiled at him.
Vlad Masters was tall and muscular with long white hair tied into a ponytail. He always walked with confidence and had a presence about him that demanded respect. Danny returned the smile and said:
"Everything is almost ready Mr. Masters; I'm just going over some final things right now." Vlad chuckled.
"Daniel my boy, how many times have I told you to call me Vlad?" Danny smiled nervously.
"Too many Vlad. With everything going on, I guess I'm just kind of nervous." Vlad clasped his hand on Danny's shoulder harder.
"Now now my boy, you have nothing to worry about. All of your calculations are correct and our technicians have been working round the clock on every last detail of your schematics." Danny just nodded uneasily. "Your father would be very proud." Danny gave the older man a warm smile.
"Thank you. That means a lot." Danny returned his attention back to the task at hand. "Ok everyone, take your places." Danny looked to the woman sitting at a computer consol in front of him. "How are the ecto readings Dr. Brown?" The woman answered without looking back.
"Normal sir."
"Good. Mr. Marsh, are all of the technicians and lab personal in the safe locations." His assistant looked at him.
"Yes sir," Danny smiled again.
"Alright, now let's do this."