A/N: Hi guys! I'm back from my break. So this fanfiction is about a scene that was mentioned in the series, but we never knew exactly what happened. The episode I'm refering to is Maternal Instincts. Remember when Jack complained about how Maddie couldn't let go of an incident where he accidentally sucked the house into a parallel dimension?
My friend Yorkielover 790 pointed this out to me. I thought to myself: This calls for a fanfiction! So here I am writing this.
Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom.
Chapter 1: The New Invention
Maddie and Jazz were gone for the weekend. Maddie was at a ghost hunter's convention and Jazz was checking out a college. So Danny was left at home with his dad, Jack. Danny was trying to get some homework done, but he knew it was pointless. In fact, he could hear Jack running up the stairs from the lab now.
Jack was soon bursting through Danny's door. "Hey, Danny-boy! You gotta come check out this new invention!" Jack didn't wait for Danny to protest and dragged him down to the lab.
The new invention looked somewhat like the Proto-Portal, Danny noted. The only major difference was that it was the size of a normal portal. "What does this one do?" Danny wondered aloud. Jack took this as enthusiasm and a chance to show off.
"It's a more portable version of the Ghost Portal and it attracts ghosts and sucks them back into the Ghost Zone," Jack stated proudly.
"Does it work?" Danny asked skeptically.
"Of course it works. Why wouldn't it?" Jack replied confidently. "I made it."
"What I meant was: Has it been tested yet?"
"Nope. I wanted you to be here to see it. Bonzai!" Jack answered, then pressed the 'on' switch on the controls. The portal turned on and Danny felt waves of super-charged, ghostly energy flow through him. The energy kept getting stronger with each wave.
Danny looked over at his father, who was apparently not feeling the same thing. The light from the portal was also getting gradually brighter until it was blinding. Danny felt a familiar coldness spreading through him and tried to stop the tranformation, but with the new Proto-Portal-like invention's energy coursing through him, he couldn't. At least his dad hadn't been able to see it.
Danny couldn't exactly remember what happened next, but he knew the invention had gone haywire. The bright, blinding green faded slowly to black as he lost consciousness.
-DP-
Danny slowly came to and noticed something was off before he even opened his eyes. He could feel the cold, metal floor of the lab beneath him, but he could tell that he was also in the Ghost Zone. That can't be right, he thought to himself as he opened his eyes and sat up.
His dad's new invention was busted. He could tell just by looking at it. Although, it still felt as if small waves of it's energy were pulsing through him. He realised he was also in Phantom form, and that he couldn't change back. Then he wondered how his dad was doing. If the energy was enough to knock Danny out in ghost form, it could have done damage to Jack as well.
Danny searched the room frantically until his eyes fell upon his father. Jack lay a little ways away from Danny, unconscious. Danny began to move to see if he was alright when Jack stirred and sat up. Crap! Danny thought. Can't let dad see me like this!
Danny quickly fazed up into his room where he noticed something was off. No lights were on, but a soft green glow came from his window. He looked out and noticed that the surroundings were not that of Amity Park, but the vast expanse of green commonly known as the Ghost Zone. He groaned. So he was right. They were in the Ghost Zone.
Danny subconsciously walked over to the window while wondering how this could've happened. Then it clicked. The new portal invention. The one that was now busted. Just his luck. How was he going to fix this? Danny didn't hear Jack enter the room as he stood there staring out the window.
"Don't move, Ghost!" Danny slowed turned around, raising his hands. "What happened to Danny, my son?"
"I really wish I knew," Danny answered quietly, remembering how he couldn't tranform back. "But I think we might have a bigger problem," Danny continued, as he glanced behind himself at the window and what lay behind it.
Jack followed Danny's gaze, wondering what had caught the spectre's attention. "Sufferin' spooks! We're in the Ghost Zone!"
"Yeah . . . The whole house was kinda sucked into the Ghost Zone," Danny deadpanned. He put his hands down again. Explaining the problem? That was taken care of. Fixing it? Danny had a feeling that would be a lot harder. And he had no idea where to begin.
