Phantom of Heroes: Year One
Arc I: Rise of the Phantom
Chapter I: A Day in the Life of a Fenton
Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom, Marvel or DC. I only own this story and any OCs used unless they include elements of existing characters.
"Normal Speech"
"Kryptonian" (translated into English for everyone's convenience)
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"Welcome to the 6:00 news, I'm your anchor, Keith Mypastywhitebutt. Our top story today, noted archaeologist Fred Flinsteen made an amazing discovery today in Sweden. On a windswept fjord he came across some primitive musical instruments plus some miniscule deposits of fossilized stool. When asked what the stool could be, Flinsteen replied 'adaba aba doo'."
Both teens watching the story couldn't help but to snort at the pun.
"In other news," Keith continued, "Tony Stark still missing. The famous or infamous billionaire depending on your point of view disappeared last month on a routine business trip to Afghanistan with rumors pointing to a terrorist group known only as the Ten Rings as those responsible, little is known about this group other than that they don't appear to be affiliated with any known religious or ethnic group, the military has dispatched a special task force to find and rescue him lead by a close friend of Stark's, Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes of the U.S. Air Force, and now to the weather."
The aforementioned teens that were lounging on the couch then exchanged interested glances. One was Kara Danvers, dressed in a thin red jacket that was unzipped, leaving her plain white t-shirt visible and a pair of blue shorts and red socks. The other was Danny Fenton in his usual attire; a white t-shirt with red trim and blue jeans. Although they were watching the news, the two teens weren't sitting normally. Danny was, oddly enough, sitting upside-down on the couch, his feet hanging over the top and his head almost to the floor while Kara was laying across the couch, completely ignoring the speed bump that was Danny's body and draped her legs over his midsection.
"You think that they'll find him soon?" Kara asked, intrigued. "I hope that they do."
"So do I, but they have their work cut out for them. He could be anywhere in the Middle East by now," Danny elaborated.
"How? You think that they fled the country?" she questioned. The youngest Fenton rolled his eyes.
"Well, they couldn't afford the flight cost, let alone make it through any airport security or a whole flight with nobody recognizing Stark. If they moved, they probably stuffed their headquarters into trucks and things like that and made a cross-continental road trip. That's considering they didn't just hold up in a cave somewhere," Danny explained to Kara, who sighed.
"As long as he gets back safely, I could care less about what happens," Kara decided and huffed. Danny rolled his eyes again and punched her side gently.
"Always one to look on the bright side, aren't you?" Danny joked. Kara punched him back, a great deal harder than he did to her though still not enough to really hurt him.
"Someone has to, and it definitely won't be you, Mr. Negative Nancy." She shot back and completely ignored his pained, "Ouch."
"Hey, watch it! You know full well you could have those things registered as lethal weapons especially when you can punch holes in steel walls with them!" Danny retorted with false anger. Kara glared playfully at the raven-haired teen, then she rolled off the couch and into a standing position and looked down at him, who had yet to rectify his sitting position.
"Come on, we'll be late. And you still need to go get your things and I need to get my bracelet from my mother." Kara insisted. Danny let out an exaggerated groan as he flipped himself into a laying position on the couch and paused shortly before he rose to a standing position as well.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Danny cried his voice absolutely dripping with sarcasm. "It's not like it will take an hour to get my bag or for you to go across the hall to grab your stuff from your place." Amused, Kara rolled her eyes.
"Great, now let's get going." Kara said as she literally dragged Danny out the door, which wasn't even close to being a hard thing for her to do and then ran through the slightly open door into her apartment. "Mom, we're leaving for school! Have you seen my bracelet anywhere?" She yelled, hoping for an answer.
"It should be on your nightstand, hon! You forgot it when you went to Danny's earlier." The voice of Kara's adoptive mother, Lucia Danvers resonated from the kitchen. It was only a short minute before she came out, grease smeared on her cheek and a wrench in hand. Kara ran up to her, gave her a quick hug before she rushed to her room, picked up the bracelet and put it on, her golden blonde hair and unnaturally bright blue eyes both faded to brown just like Lucia's features, however it did nothing to her actual facial structure or clothing. The reason Kara wore this bracelet was due to the recommendation of Agent Phil Coulson of the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division or S.H.I.E.L.D. for short in order to hide her true origin and was not supposed to be seen without it by anyone who does not already know that she wasn't always Kara Danvers. The truth is she was born as Kara Zor-El on the planet Krypton and had been sent to Earth at the age of six to escape the destruction of the planet back in 1980 but it wasn't until 2005 that anyone found her and woke her up from her quarter century in cryostasis and was soon adopted by Mike and Lucia Danvers, the very people who found her. The bracelet, which was made from vibranium the only known material that can withstand just about anything she could do to it, was for her own protection to keep her safe from the more shady parts of the government. The only people that knew what Kara really looks like with it off were her adoptive parents, the Fentons and of course S.H.I.E.L.D.
"Thanks, mom." Kara responded as Danny walked back into the room after using the time Kara was getting her bracelet to get his bag.
"Have a good day at school!" Lucia called as Kara dragged Danny out the door, into the elevator and then onto the subway, the latter only giving a small wave goodbye as he left the room. Lucia smiled and couldn't help but make an offhand remark about how cute those two were before she sighed and went back to trying to fix the kitchen sink. "The work of a professional never ends".
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"Well, if it isn't Fen-turd. Where's your girlfriend today? Did she finally come to her senses?" Expert bully Dash Baxter bragged, shoving Danny against the wall of lockers.
"If she had, she'd have kicked your ass by now," Danny said as he rolled his eyes, not even bothering to respond to the 'girlfriend' remark which was obviously referring to Kara. "So I'd leave me alone if I were you Dash." Danny added, as he rubbed his slightly pained elbow. Dash shoved Danny once more but before Danny could respond again, a horrible pain filled Dash's senses, horrible, and familiar. Danny chuckled to see Kara holding Dash by the ear.
"Did you forget what we discussed?" Kara said, and pulled harder on his ear. "You know I could rip this thing off if I wanted to." Dash seemed like he was starting to cry. He winced and Kara let him go and watched as he proceeded to glare at Danny.
"It's pathetic that a girl has to watch your back." He said as he turned and walked away.
"It's pathetic that you're afraid of her enough that she can." Danny shot back while Kara rolled her eyes in amusement.
"It's pathetic that you can't keep your mouth shut long enough for that neanderthal to forget you're there." Kara asked with a smirk saying the word neanderthal in her native Kryptonian which she taught Danny and Jazz to speak years ago as a sort of secret code and in this case Kara didn't want Dash or one of his so called 'friends' listening in to hear her use the insulting nickname they gave them and give them any ideas after all ideas are bad for the neanderthal brain often resulting in both pain and increased stupidity.
Danny decided not to dignify that comment with a response and instead said "You know that this means that Paulina will be extra pissed at you today, right? She hates it when Dash gets emasculated".
"I can handle her." Kara said with a roll of her eyes, and it was true as it was well known at Midtown High that Kara was at the top of the food chain. Most of the freshmen class at Midtown High could quite easily be broken down into two very distinct groups, the Brains and the Brawns, which was exactly what it sounded like Nerds vs. Jocks, Academics vs. Extracurriculars, Laser vs. Rock. Sure it's been done to death and is incredibly cliché but that is just how it is. Dash Baxter, Flash Thompson, Paulina Sanchez and Karla Sofen were in charge of the Brawns while Danny and Kara, along with Kara's adoptive first cousin Carol Danvers and their friend Peter Parker, were the de facto leaders of the Brains and while Kara was the strongest, fastest and most physically fit kid in the school it was well known that she would rather side with Danny and the Brains than with the neanderthalish Brawns, a fact that continues to frustrate the Brawns to no end. Although only a handful of individuals such as Danny and his sister Jazz know that her physical abilities were due to Kara's extraterrestrial origins. At that point the bell rang and Danny and Kara walked to their first class of the day and their favorite science, okay Kara dragged Danny there as per usual.
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Finally it came time for everyone's second favorite part of the day apart from dismissal: lunch.
"You brought a lunch from home today, Danny?" Peter commented as Danny and Kara sat across from him and Carol.
"Yeah, I don't think that I can tolerate any more of the school's horrendous food." Danny commented, tossing his sack lunch onto the table. The others shared a snicker.
"So," Carol started off eagerly, what she was about to say having been on her mind for most of the morning. "Did you guys hear?" as she failed to create any kind of suspense, to Peter's slight annoyance.
"No, because you didn't specify what yet." He replied, chuckling to himself. Carol nudged him off his seat, getting a very annoyed and indignant "hey!" from the floor.
"You were saying?" Kara asked, and chuckled a little as Danny helped Peter up off the floor.
"Tonight's debate team topic is focusing on what is up with this 'Batman' character! This debate is the one everyone has been waiting for!"
"I wouldn't say that everyone does, Carol. I think just about everyone has already made up their mind about him." Danny pointed out, which caused Carol to lightly scowl in his direction.
"Must you always make sense?" She asked, as she reached across the table to knock over his sack lunch.
Danny feigned a gasp and everyone could've sworn that they heard him whisper "you monster" except Kara who heard it clearly due to her superhearing.
"Don't look now, but here comes Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber." Carol interrupted his thought process with a nod forward.
Peter rolled his eyes behind glasses and Danny and Kara turned to see Paulina Sanchez and Karla Sofen, two of the leaders of the Brawns, coming towards them.
"Ah, our dynamic rival duo." Kara said, glaring back at them. Danny snorted.
"Can't be really dynamic, then, since they act exactly the same." He snarked. Peter and Carol chuckled, while Kara rolled her eyes, however she smiled a little at the remark herself.
"Kara." Paulina acknowledged with a visibly disgusted scowl on her face.
"Paulina." Kara said with a bored and unamused look.
"Carol." Karla added with a glare and got a quick "Karla" in return.
Danny fought back a roll of his eyes, and started whispering to Peter. "They do this everyday like they're mortal enemies that haven't seen each other in decades. I mean, this happened yesterday, the day before and the day before that!" He said across the table to Peter who shrugged back, both unaffected by four sets of glares shooting their way.
"We weren't talking to you, nerd." Paulina scoffed and Danny fought the urge to tell her that he wasn't talking to her either.
"Why are you here then, Paula?" Carol asked mockingly, using the girl's hated nickname who then proceeded to glare at her.
"To tell you to leave Dash alone, or we won't be playing nice anymore." Paulina told Kara having broken off her glare to look at her.
"We don't like it when our friends are emasculated." Karla added
"I'd be more offended if I thought you could spell that." Danny and Kara said in unison both wondering where Karla had learned that word which caused said girl to huff in annoyance and frustration.
Peter then couldn't help but quip "I didn't know you had friends Karla." which caused the girl to glare in his direction which he ignored.
"You want to end up in the nurse's office?" Karla retorted.
"Seems you want Dash there." Kara answered back.
Paulina then gave Kara a death glare after hearing that remark though Kara looked unimpressed.
"You think that can intimidate me?" Kara asked threateningly.
"Just leave Dash alone." Paulina stated before she and Karla stormed off in a huff.
"Kara 142, Paulina zip." Danny exclaimed which caused his three friends to burst out into laughter. Then changing the subject, Danny said "By the way, my parents should be finishing up the ghost portal today."
"You mean the thing that can take you to an entirely different dimension?" Peter asked suddenly very interested in the new topic.
"Very impressive, guys." Carol said with a grin on her face.
"Yeah, you guys want to come over and see the big reveal?" Danny offered. The two unexpectedly groaned in unison.
"Sorry guys, I can't my Uncle Ben is taking me fishing this weekend." Peter said obviously dreading it.
"And I have debate team this afternoon though I think I can show up to see it later tonight" Carol added causing Peter to groan from his bad luck.
Danny turned to Kara and asked "You're still coming, right?" Kara then proceeded to give him a fairly exasperated look.
"Of course! I wouldn't miss this for the world!" Kara said excitedly, almost jumping out of her seat showing a little more emotion than she probably should have. Danny and Carol smiled while Peter sighed in disappointment.
"Rub it in, why don't you?" Peter complained, causing the others to chuckle until the bell rang signalling the end of lunch and the start of fourth period and without a word the group of four split off into groups of two, Danny with Kara the later dragging the former and Peter with Carol to head to their next classes.
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It was finally everyone's true favorite time of the day, dismissal and since it was Friday, it was actually everyone's favorite time of the week. And so after waiting for Peter's uncle to pick him up, Danny and Kara began the walk to the nearest subway station on their long journey back to their apartment building. Well, Danny's apartment building.
Danny's great-grandfather was the original owner of a 25 story apartment building in midtown Manhattan and ended up passing it down to Jack when he passed away which happened to be around the time that Jack and Maddie were looking for a new house after graduating college. The Fentons lived in one of the two Penthouses on the 25th floor and used the proceeds from renting out the rest of the building to finance Fenton Works which was oddly enough, in the basement and was by now sound, blast, and radiation-proof from the inside not to mention Jack-proof.
Kara and her parents Mike and Lucia lived across the hall from the Fentons in the other penthouse, her and Danny's parents became very good friends during their senior year of college. After graduation Jack offered to let Mike and Lucia live in the empty penthouse for free, but they declined not wanting to be freeloaders and eventually they came to the compromise that they'd be in charge of managing the building as well as Fenton Works' finances and in exchange would get the Penthouse and a decent paycheck. Mike and Lucia had found that they rather enjoyed working from home and haven't gone anywhere since moving in. Which was perfectly fine for Danny and Kara as they had no desire to split up anytime in the near future.
"Just you two today?" A familiar feminine-sounding voice called from behind the two teens who were standing on the platform waiting for the next subway to arrive.
"Hey, Jazz." Danny greeted as he turned around to look at his older sister.
Jazz came to a halt and adjusted her teal headband that had come loose in her long orange hair after her almost hurried sprint though she looked like she could have ran for miles without getting tired and in fact actually could. She waited with Danny and Kara for the subway routinely as she proceeded to flatten out both her teal hoodie with a white trim and black jeans.
Like Kara, Jazz was adopted by her parents and was not human; unlike Kara, Jazz was found by S.H.I.E.L.D. as a baby, and thus has no knowledge of her origins. She was declared an 0-8-4, S.H.I.E.L.D. lingo for an object of unknown origin which can also be applied to people and was placed on the Index, S.H.I.E.L.D.'s list of things and people with special abilities due to her metahuman nature with Coulson as her supervisor and later Kara's as well. After being discovered by S.H.I.E.L.D., Jazz was taken to their orphanage in New York and shortly thereafter, adopted by the Fentons which S.H.I.E.L.D. allowed on account of the Fenton's being a family of ghost hunters that live in Manhattan meaning that Jazz should blend right in as she would seem like the normal one.
"Hey Danny, how was school?" She asked, as the three got on the train.
"It was okay, I guess. It would've been better if Peter and Carol could've came to see the portal's activation."
"Maybe they'll be available later. Then we can tease them that we saw the grand reveal." Kara said, trying to cheer Danny up. It seemed to be working, because he let out a boisterous laugh. "Besides, I'm going, aren't I? Am I not enough for you?" unknowingly flirting with her oldest friend. Captain Clueless then rolled his eyes.
"More than enough, believe me," He said, rubbing his side where she had lightly punched him earlier in feigned injury, which caused the alien girl to huff.
"Try me again, Fenton, and it'll be more than just one fist." She jokingly threatened, holding up both her fists. Jazz chuckled highly amused at their little interaction, before she decided to have a little fun of her own.
"Careful, Danny, witty remarks to things like that can lead to marital issues." Jazz said in a singsong voice, which caused the words in Danny's throat to retreat back to the recesses of his brain as he choked in sync with Kara.
"Come on, sis, that's not cool!" Danny whined less embarrassed than annoyed.
"Yeah, like we don't get enough ship tease from our parents, our friends and oh, I don't know, just about everyone else!" and she meant it too. As Kara's parents won't stop asking when she and Danny will get together, while Danny's parents and the entire school, both students and faculty think they are already together which is not helped by their tendency to skip out on school dances to go to the movies together, not to mention that they were pretty sure that Peter, Carol and Jazz have an ever growing betting pool set up as to who will make the first move with at least $1,000 up for grabs by now.
"You'll get over it eventually." Jazz said, messing up Danny's hair and remaining unfazed by the death glare that he gave her as he swatted her away. "But will it be before your wedding?" She asked playfully before turning to Kara to add "I call first dibs on being a bridesmaid." Which caused them both to blush as red as Krypton's sun. Then to top it all off Jazz started singing "Danny and Kara sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in a baby carriage!" which resulted in the two blushing even harder if that is even possible.
"Jazz!" both of the blushing teens exclaimed as they playfully chased Jazz off the subway which had luckily just arrived at their station.
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"Mom, we're going to the basement! Danny's parents are about to test that new invention. Want to come with?" Kara said to her mother who was still trying to fix the sink.
"Sorry, sweetie, but I'll check it out later. I still need to fix this stupid sink and your father is still in the doghouse for breaking it," Lucia called out, her voice echoing from the kitchen. Then both Kara and her mother heard a banging on a locked door somewhere in the penthouse and the voice of Kara's father Mike begging to be let out while also repeatedly apologizing to his wife which both of them ignored.
"Okay, see you at dinner, then. We're going to go down now, Jazz is already there." Kara said as she started to walk away, only for her mom to exclaim again.
"Where's Carol? I thought that you liked spending time with your cousin?"
"Yeah I do, Mom, it's just that she has a debate team meet today though she did say she could come over later." Kara explained easily.
"And Peter? What about him?" Her Mom asked next, keeping Kara busy as she attempted to walk away once more.
"He's on a fishing trip with his uncle this weekend." Danny interjected.
"You sure you can't come down and see the test run? It shouldn't necessarily take too long."
"No, no, don't worry about little old me. I'll see it tomorrow after all the bugs and glitches are patched up. Go on now, you two; don't waste your time trying to include me. I'm pretty sure that they'd want you there to bear witness to their biggest breakthrough yet."
"Alright, see you later then. Come on Kar, let's go." Danny replied as he began to half-drag her towards the basement of course with the Kryptonian playing along.
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Danny dragged Kara down the flight of stairs leading from the lobby to the Fentons' lab and because the tests and experiments can get pretty dangerous down there the door to the lab was made of pure titanium with a red 'Caution' sign on the doorknob. Only the Fentons, the Danvers and Agent Coulson had access to the lab due to the biometric lock on the door. The very familiar feeling of being enclosed in steel with soundproofed walls set in on them as they walked down the opening to the lab. It wasn't anything new to them having been down there hundreds of times. Tables cluttered with numerous strange things, boxes full of odd tech, loose wires and weird appliances powered by ecto-energy. There was a messy robust desk off to the far left with a computer on it and two filing cabinets on either side of it complete with a deep black swiveling computer chair with a sticker of Jack's face on the back that was slightly scratched off. However, it held fairly strong. It was made by a Fenton, after all.
Up against the wall to the far right of the lab, near the stairs, there was another door that used the space underneath the stairs for a closet and storage space. There was a work station in there with a small tube TV and keyboard to view basement security footage. There was also a mobile clothes rack that only hung jumpsuits in a variety of colors all with black accents.
The new addition to the lab was a great sight. It was a large octagonal machine on the far side of the lab that seemed to go back further into the wall that it was built into. There was also a control center next to it and around twenty cords plugged into it alone. At a surrounding table was Jazz lounging in a swivel chair with her feet up on the table and another feminine figure standing next to her in a blue jumpsuit with black accents and short red hair that Danny and Kara both knew was Danny's mother, Maddie Fenton. Both women had their backs to the stairs but, had definitely heard Danny and Kara enter the lab. Across the room messing with a test tube that had some strange green substance inside was Danny's father, Jack in his bright orange jumpsuit, a heavyset man who stood at hulking height of nearly seven feet with hair that was as dark as Danny's. Unlike the women in the lab, Jack ended up greeting the new arrivals.
"Danny!" Jack exclaimed as he tossed the test tube behind him, causing it to shatter against the wall, making it the 36th test tube he broke that day.
"Was that ectoplasm?" Kara asked concerned which was understandable, after all ectoplasm is one of only two things that they have found that could harm her which they discovered when Jack accidentally shot her with an ecto-gun. The other being a green crystalline radioactive xenomineral S.H.I.E.L.D. scientists named Kryptonite not because it originated from Kara's home planet and hitched a ride in the warp bubble that brought Kara to Earth when the planet exploded though that is the leading theory as to its origins but actually because the only element they could identify in the compound is ironically enough the noble gas Krypton. This mysterious green crystal causes instant cellular degeneration in Kara's body resulting in immense pain and after enough time would ultimately result in death and because it is radioactive could potentially cause cancer in humans after long-term exposure. Luckily for Kara not only does her healing factor quickly fix any damage done as soon as she gets away from the stuff but so little of the stuff was ever found that it would be valued at around a billion dollars an ounce and it all belongs to S.H.I.E.L.D. and is being kept in a highly classified secure facility somewhere far from anything called the Sandbox. Though Kara's powers including her invulnerability could be exhausted as they run off of solar energy that her body stores up or canceled out altogether using red sun light which quickly drains her solar energy reserves.
"Nope, just green food coloring" Jack replied. While Kara let out a relieved sigh, she decided against asking why he had food coloring in a test tube in the first place. "Anyway, you kids got here just in time to see the unveiling of our newest device, the Ghost Portal 2.0! This baby is designed to punch a hole right into the Ghost Zone for us to explore."
"This portal acts as the bridge between our world and the realm of the ghosts. If this invention works, we'll be the first scientists to not only connect two realms, but to connect one inhabited by humans with one inhabited by spirits and wandering souls, in turn being a giant scientific breakthrough in any type of inter-dimensional study." Maddie explained.
"Dad, you said 2.0. Was there a first one?" Jazz inquired.
"Back in our college days before we met your parents Kara we were friends and lab partners with one Vlad Masters." Maddie started.
"Wait, Vlad Masters? You mean the Wisconsin billionaire?" Kara asked intrigued.
"Yep, V-man did pretty well for himself after he recovered from his accident. In fact if I remember right, he should be coming to town sometime in the next few days on a business trip, hey maybe I can introduce you," Jack replied obviously having kept tabs on his old friend.
"Accident, what accident?" Danny asked.
"Well, while we were running tests on the proto-portal, your father made a slight miscalculation somewhere and the portal ended up blowing up in Vlad's face quite literally, sent him to the hospital for six months with a bad case of Ecto-Acne. he hasn't spoken to us since." Maddie explained.
The three teens were taken aback for a short time but quickly recovered. "At least he's okay." Kara stated.
"Of course he's okay, he's a billionaire." Danny snarked back, causing Jazz to remind him of what comments like that can lead to when Danny and Kara get married which resulted in both teens blushing once again.
"Anyway, we didn't mean to get sidetracked and blabber on about our college days. Now for the main event!" Jack exclaimed in a very hammy manner, preparing to plug the portal into the outlet that somehow was able to supply enough power to open a portal to another plane of existence. "Get to a safe distance, kids. Now get ready ghosts, because Jack Fenton is coming through!" and then proceeded to plug in the machine which started to whirr to life for a good half minute before it fizzled out and projected sparks with it's last dying breath, which caused both adults to stand there in shock and stunned silence.
"Dad?" Danny and Jazz asked finally breaking the deafening silence which lasted a good 42 seconds. Jack proceeded to pull the hood of his jumpsuit down very slowly, before turning to the witnesses of this grand folly.
"I don't know where we..." Jack stated quietly. Very quietly. That's when the kids got concerned, because Jack Fenton never spoke quietly.
"It's fine, Jack. I suppose that we need to give the portal some minor adjustments before it-" Maddie ended up cutting herself off in the process when she saw the disappointed and saddened expression on her husband's face.
"Let's tend to it later, okay, Maddie? I need my emergency ham and some fudge." Jack said in a very poor attempt to bring himself back to high spirits. It worked for a short while, before he gazed back at the portal once more and quickly slouched up the stairs, Maddie following hastily.
"Man, poor Dad. I've never seen him so upset. Not even when I got stuck in the dumbwaiter and he ended up missing lunch trying to get me out." Danny said disappointedly, as he looked between the staircase and the portal.
"Mom wasn't in high spirits either. Usually she's tending to things that need to be fixed, but now it seems like she'll end up just eating some emergency ham and going to bed." Jazz added. Danny sighed in great disappointment.
"I hope there is something we can do," Danny said in a very deflated and unanimated tone of voice.
Kara's eyes lit up. "Maybe there is something that we can do," she said, getting Danny and Jazz's attention very quickly as she entered the closet.
"What can we do?" Jazz wondered having a bad feeling about where Kara was going with this.
"We're geniuses, remember? I'm positive that we could at the very least figure out what went wrong, if not fix the problem ourselves." Kara explained. When she emerged, she was holding a white jumpsuit with black accents and had a very reckless idea.
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"Kara, do you really think that this is a good idea?" Danny inquired, zipping up the jumpsuit.
"Nope, not in the slightest," Kara answered, doing absolutely nothing to ease Danny's worried state.
"But when has that ever stopped us from doing something stupid?" she smiled, which did help put Danny at ease, at least a little bit. "And, uh, let's get this out of the way. That's certainly not a good idea." she finished, as she proceeded to rip off the sticker of Jack's face on the Danny's chest and then replaced it with a black stylized D. Something Kara designed for Danny after he was disappointed about not having a personal symbol when Kara showed him the crest of her birth family which resembled an S inside of a five sided shield and meant 'hope' in Kryptonian and only later did they realize that the stylized D actually had a P inside. This action caused Danny to look at her in slight confusion "What? It makes you look like a superhero, like Captain America only black and white and it looks cool." she explained which caused Jazz to once again sing a very familiar rhyme that caused both the alien girl and the Earth boy to blush up a storm and yell out Jazz's name in clear annoyance and embarrassment.
Once Danny recovered from the embarrassment that his sister caused him and Kara, turned to the Kryptonian who was still trying to get rid of the blush on her face with a look that asked "Now what?"
Kara without even looking at Danny said "Go check the inside of the portal for anything that might be amiss. Jazz, you and I are gonna go over the notes and blueprints to ensure that there are no miscalculations or design flaws," and almost tripped over the power cord for the portal on her way over to the table with said notes and blueprints.
A few minutes later, Kara heard Danny exclaim, "I think I found what caused the portal to short out! There's a power switch in here... I guess only Dad would put a power switch inside an interdimensional portal."
Kara then turned to see Danny about to press the switch when she remembered seeing Jack plug the machine in and how she almost tripped over the power cord for the machine which was still plugged into the wall which caused the young extraterrestrial to panic as she yelled out "Danny, wait!" but she was a split second too late as Danny had already activated the portal and enough ecto-energy to kill a blue whale from both electrocution and radiation poisoning passed through his body as he screamed at the top of his lungs in complete agony drowning out the sound generated by the activation of the portal, something that Kara would have given absolutely anything to be able to forget.
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An Author's Note explaining why I am writing this rather than TheIceRaven is available at the end of the second chapter.