Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom or the characters

Sam was the first to wake up. She stood up but found that her legs were wobbly and she was a little dizzy. After a few moments, the dizziness went away and she took in her surroundings. She tried to remember what happened but when she looked at the portal, now swirling green, everything came back.

The goth girl then noticed the two boys (they were clearly ghosts since they were glowing) on the floor, clearly out cold. One had blindingly white hair, like the kind of white you could only get from freshly fallen snow with a pair of pure white eyebrows to match, a black jumpsuit with white gloves, boots, belt and collar. The suit looked strangely like Danny's except with the colours inversed. The other ghost had dark green hair that was on the shorter side with green eyebrows, dark skin and a jumpsuit exactly like Tucker's except it was charcoal-coloured instead of off white and the metal looked shiny and new. Sam approached the ghosts and when she looked at their faces, she found that these ghosts were, indeed, her best friends.

Sam frantically checked for vital signs but could not find a pulse nor were they breathing. This was all too much for the goth and, though it was very much against her nature to do so, she cried. Anyone would if they were responsible for the deaths of their best friends.

"I'm so sorry guys," Sam whispered, tears running down her face. She looked around the room and saw the cord, with the two halves of the plug together. Danny's last words popped into her mind.

Sam, stop!

Danny was trying to tell her that the portal was still plugged in. It really was all her fault. She convinced her friends to go in the portal. She ignored Danny. She pushed the button. It was all her fault!

"I'm sorry!" Sam said again, louder. She couldn't help but be angry. What had they done to deserve this? Sure, Tucker could be a bit of a pervert and she always fought with him (especially about his eating habits) but he didn't deserve to die. Deep down in his heart, Tucker Foley was a good person and like a brother to her and Danny. The Fenton boy deserved it even less. Danny was too good and too kind of a person to deserve such a painful death. He was smart (way smarter than he liked to believe, just because he wasn't Jazz smart it didn't mean he was stupid), funny, kind, brave and really protective of his friends and family.

Suddenly, there was a groan. She looked down to her best friends'…bodies and she saw Danny move. His white eyebrows were scrunched up in pain and his hands covered his ears.

"Not so loud..." Danny groaned. He wasn't sure why but he could hear everything very clearly. So, when he heard a female voice yell "I'm sorry," his ears hurt like hell and they started to ring. The voice was so much louder to his now-sensitive ears than it should have been.

"Sorry," the voice repeated, much quieter this time. "Danny, are you ok?" Danny suddenly recognized the voice. It was Sam.

When Danny opened his eyes, they were not their normal electric blue; they were glowing neon green. Sam didn't know what to say and Danny (after blinking a few times because the light was way too bright for his eyes) was wondering why Sam was staring at him and-oh God, she looked so different. What the hell?

Her hair was electric blue, and her eyes were crimson red. Her jumpsuit was different too. The pale blue was now dark purple, almost black and the white gloves, boots and belt were now black. Huh, weird.

"Whoa, you look…different," Danny said breathlessly. Sam was surprised to hear this but her surprise quickly dissipated. Of course she looked different. It was dumb to think that only Danny and Tucker were affected by the portal.

"You look different too," Sam replied, not able to say anything else. Danny narrowed his glowing green eyes and stood up quickly. It was a very bad idea because Danny found the floor coming to close to him.

Sam tried to catch him but Danny literally fell right through her hands. "Yeah, I was dizzy when I first woke up too," Sam admitted as she helped her friend get to his feet.

"Thanks," Danny smiled. "Let's go check ourselves out in the decontamination chamber." Again, that was a very bad idea. When Danny and Sam looked at their reflections in the mirror, they both screamed and ran back into the lab.

"Oh my God! Why do I have old guy hair? And I'm glowing? What the hell is up with that!" Danny screamed, glad his mother wasn't home to hear him cuss, even mildly. As far as she was concerned, Danny didn't swear.

"I don't know!" Sam yelled in her own panic. "I don't know what happened to us." Danny's eyes widened in realization leaving Sam confused.

"Crap…" Danny whispered.

"What?"

"Tucker." Sam had that same "Oh hell" look that he was sure was on his face. The two ran over to the still unconscious Tucker and Danny checked his brother's vital signs. Danny and Tucker obviously weren't related but they'd know each other since they were born so close enough, right?

"I tried that already, Danny. He doesn't have a heartbeat. Neither do you, actually," Sam explained. Danny momentarily panicked (no pulse?!) as he realized that he was actually not breathing, and didn't really feel the need to, but he couldn't think of that right now. He had to wake Tucker up and he was sure that he knew how.

"Tucker, wake up! There are supermodels serving an all meat buffet!" Danny screamed trying to sound excited while Sam was having a hard time containing her laughter. Tucker's snapped open (they were glowing red instead of being their natural jungle green) and sat up yelling; "What? Where? Where?" His eyes landed on his friends and he looked confused.

"What the hell happened to you?" Tucker asked slowly. His friends looked so different he hardly recognized them but he had known them long enough that he who they were even with the changes to their appearances. Danny and Sam exchanged glances and Danny started to explain what happened.

"Well…the portal obviously did something to us. It must have had something to do with the electricity and the ectoplasm from the Ghost Zone, assuming it exists," Danny said. Tucker responded with a slow nod. He knew something bad was about to happen.

"This is all my fault. I killed us. I'm sorry guys," Sam muttered sadly. Danny and Tucker approached Sam and comforted her despite being scared themselves. Tucker put a hand on her shoulder and Danny held her hand.

"Sam, that's complete bull. It isn't your fault. Sometimes, bad things happen right?" Danny told her.

"Danny's right, why would you even think that?" Tucker added.

"Because I convinced you guys to go in the portal. Because I pushed the ON button while we were inside without thinking to unplug it," Sam whispered guiltily. The two boys exchanged worried glances and Danny squeezed Sam's hand tighter. Danny hadn't admitted it to anyone except Jazz, but he had a tiny crush on Sam. He'd liked her for a while but he said nothing about it since he really didn't want to have those kinds of feelings for his best friend. Maybe it was just a simple crush and nothing more? He was pretty sure that Tucker knew about his feelings toward Sam because he would often give Danny a knowing smile when the African American boy would leave his two best friends alone. Surprisingly, it was Tucker who spoke first.

"Sam, don't worry about it. We'll figure this out," he said.

"He's right, you know. We're in this together no matter what happens," Danny added. Sam smiled and nodded but then they heard a noise that terrified them. It was the sound of the front door opening and closing.

"Guys, I'm home!" Jazz yelled.

"Uhh…be right there!" Danny yelled frantically, his panic taking over his rational mind.

"She can't see us like this. She might tell my parents and if they find out, best case scenario they'll kick me out and get your parents to do the same thing to you guys," Danny rambled, his terror now showing on his face.

"What about worst case scenario?" Tucker asked reluctantly.

"They'll experiment on us, dissect us and then kill us slowly and painfully."

"Ah hell!" Sam exclaimed.

"Uh huh," Danny agreed with a slow nod.

"Are you guys down in the lab?" Jazz asked from upstairs.

"Yes!" said Sam. "We just wanted to see the portal and Danny was nice enough to show it to us." Jazz bought it and told them to hurry up.

"Why do these things always happen? Why can't I just be normal?" Danny asked himself angry that he was always getting into bad situations. Sam and Tucker stared wide-eyed at Danny as a white ring appeared around his waist like a hula-hoop, and then split in two, traveling up and down his body. That wasn't even the weirdest part. As the rings went up and down Danny's body, he transformed into his normal self. Hair like a moonless sky, intense blue eyes, and white and black jumpsuit. Danny looked like he did just before they went inside the portal.

The same thing happened to Sam and Tucker, leaving all the teenagers confused as to what just happened. Deciding not question it and hoping that it was just a short term side effect of the portal accident, the three teens quickly changed out of their jumpsuits, pulled their normal clothes back on and rushed upstairs.

Author's Note: as you can see, I did clean up the language a bit and fixed up the sentence structure so it doesn't feel so wordy.

~ Darth Synkka