I sat in a chair next to my brother and one of my cousin's friends, Tucker. I was the youngest person in the room. There was Kevin, but he's two years older. There's my other cousin Gwen, and my brother Ben, they are one year older. Then there's my cousin Danny and his friends Sam and Tucker, they are just about half a year older. And Jazz don't get me started on Jazz, she's in her last year of high school, she's four years older and acts like a forty year old woman.
We all sat in a row in front of one of the walls of my Aunt Maddie and Uncle Jack's basement. A tarp covered the wall and my aunt and uncle just grinned wildly.
"So uh, what's under the tarp, sir?" Kevin asked bored from his chair.
"Glad you asked, Kevin! Under this tarp is a way to travel into the Ghost Zone! We're calling it the Fenton Ghost Portal!" Uncle Jack replied loudly. He grabbed two cords with a plug in one and an outlet in the other.
Aunt Maddie looked at the blueprints in her hands and frowned, "Jack these calculations aren't right-"
"BANZAI!" Uncle Jack slammed the two cords together and we all cringed, waiting for the inevitable explosion.
Fate found pity on us all when it just fizzled. A collective sigh of relief sounded through the basement.
Uncle Jack's mood dropped, he dropped the cords and sulked up the stairs. Aunt Maddie sighed, "You kids don't touch anything, I'll go help Jack." Aunt Maddie jogged up the stairs.
"What do you think is wrong with it Kev?" Gwen asked as Kevin got up to look at it.
"I don't know, I specialize in Alien tech not Ghost tech." He shrugged.
I stood up, "Maybe it did work, but just not as they thought it would?" I walked inside the cave-like entrance and just walked deeper and deeper.
"Ugh, rock, paper, scissors to who goes and gets her?" Sam suggested.
Every one shook a fist to see who went to get Jen from the portal. Everyone but Danny's was rock, Danny chose scissors. Danny groaned as he slipped into one of his parents white jumpsuits with black boots and gloves.
"Oh, Danny wait." Sam walked over and ripped off a sticker of his Dad's smiling face off of the suit.
"Ew, thanks." Danny muttered.
"No problem, go get her." Sam smacked his back and he stumbled in the cave like entrance as well.
As he walked along the walls he called out to his cousin, "Jen? Come on Jen, if it worked we would know."
He bumped into something along the way. "Jen?"
"So what Danny? At least try to support your parents." She scolded.
"Easy for you to say you don't get beaten up at school because your parents hunt Ghosts." He scoffed at his little cousin. He never really did like her, or Ben. They were annoying because they were Tennysons instead of Fentons. He knows how close their families have been even before his Dad's sister married Carl Tennyson. They shared the exact same beliefs of Ghosts and Aliens. He stayed his best distance away from Jen most of his life, but once he had heard their decision to move their entire Alien operation from Bellwood to Amity he stayed in his room for the rest of the day.
Ever since Ben turned ten and got the Omnitrix, Danny did his best to stay away from him. When he saw that Jen had an ability to use any bag to connect with what she called a "Hammer Space" in means of storing things, he steered clear of her as well.
"No I don't, but I don't like associating with normal people, so I don't count. Go talk to Kev about when he lived in New York." Danny couldn't see her but he knew she had her arms crossed and was pouting.
"I don't care about you or your friends Jen! Leave me out of your crazy thought process, AND JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!"
Jen seemed to shrink into nonexistence once Danny finished his rant. "…I was just trying to help…"
Danny heard a sniff and he sighed as he leaned against the wall, he felt something like a button underneath his back…
Jazz had left earlier when her mom called down the stairs to get her to help keep her father away from the fudge.
Ben, Gwen, Kevin, Sam and Tucker were the only ones left in the basement. They just sat and stared at the "Ghost Portal" as hard as they could, willing the two to come back or show some sign that Jen was wrong.
"-AND JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!" the entire group jumped a bit at hearing Danny yell. Sam and Tucker sighed in relief, at least they know Danny was still alive.
There was a pause, then the machinery connected to the portal whirred to life. A low hum from the controls, "Ghost Portal activated."
Everyone jumped up and ran to the controls and began hitting buttons to try and shut it off.
Kevin looked to the portal and saw that it was beginning to glow green. Two screams interrupted them. Both sounded as if they were in immense pain. They all stopped and listened as the two voices cried out. Suddenly, right when Kevin was about to run in after them, two bodies shot out against the wall.
The two bodies both had white hair, and looked exhausted. One wore a reversed version of Danny's jumpsuit. The other had a white shirt and skirt with black leggings and belt with large black tennis shoes. Jen's previous outfit was the reversed.
The larger male body groaned and opened his eyes, his green glowing eyes. The girl did the same, hers were the same.
"B-ben? What happened I feel so light headed." The girl muttered.
"Jen?" Ben rushed to his sister and cousin, "I don't know what happened, but you look… different."
Kevin quickly shoved a mirror into the two's faces. "By different he means different"
I looked into the mirror and almost screamed, my hair was white, my eyes weren't their normal yellow. As soon as I gasped I turned invisible.
"JEN? What happened?" Gwen shrieked.
I looked over and saw Danny had tried to stand up and was slowly sinking into the ground.
I quickly calmed myself and turned visible long enough to grab Danny and pull him up.
"What's going on?" I panicked.
"I don't know but it looks cool," Ben smacked Kevin over the head. "I mean bad, yeah really bad." Kevin rubbed his head tenderly. "It looks like you got fused with ghost energy, seeing as though you can become invisible and intangible."
"So wait… WE'RE DEAD?" I screamed.
"Let's see." Kevin pulled out his tracker, "This only tracks living things, if you are fully dead, you won't show up." He turned it on and looked at it. A loud alarm sounded, "Subject is half dead, please proceed to use appropriate medical procedure. Subject is half dead, please proceed to use appropriate medical procedures." Kevin turned the thing off and my ears were ringing, "There you have it, you're only half dead."
My tears welled up, "YOU SAY THAT LIKE WE'RE NOT IN A HOUSE OF GHOST HUNTERS!"
"Well then change back." I stared at Sam and her stupid reply, "If you're only half ghost then you're still half human right?"
Danny nodded and attempted to change back. Blue rings started at his middle and separated leaving behind his normal human self. He sighed in relief.
I closed my eyes and focused on my humanity, eventually red rings did the same to me. I leaned back in exhaustion.
An alarm went off over the Ghost Portal and two octopus like ghosts emerged. Let's call them ecto-pusses. Kevin immediately absorbed some metal and attempted to punch one. It turned intangible to avoid it.
Gwen attempted to trap it in mana, but it merely phased through. Ben even turned into Big Chill as an attempt to copy it, but Big Chill is an alien and therefore couldn't get on the same intangibility plane.
Sam and Tucker even tried firing a couple of the Fenton blasters, they missed every time.
It was my turn, I reached into my "comedy prop bag" as Kevin oh so kindly named it and pulled out a Fenton Battle Staff. I ran after one of the ecto-pusses and swung only for it to float out of the way. Danny got the hint and turned back to his ghost form. I followed his example and changed.
"Just one thing, JUST ONE THING! WHY CAN'T JUST ONE THING IN MY LIFE NOT BE ABOUT ALEINS OR GHOSTS?" he yelled. Balls of green energy formed around his hands and he aimed at the ghosts. He blasted them into a wall and while they were disgruntled I blasted them towards Sam and Tucker who had a Fenton Net ready. They caught them while Kevin ripped them out and threw them into the portal before Ben and Gwen closed it.
"Told you it'd be cool." I smacked Kevin's head.
AN: Pure boredom and withdrawal wrote this story, don't like, don't read.
Other wise R and R
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