Okay, so here's variation 1 on Danny's accident. This is how it is shown in the cartoon itself. Up next will be my variation (with an OC).
"This is spectacular," whispered Sam, amazed at the sheer size and advancement of the portal. "Even though it doesn't work, if it did, think of what would happen!"
"We'd be attacked by the specters inside," muttered Danny under his breath. He had lost interest in the portal after it failed to work. At least it didn't explode.
Sam's eye caught sight of a white piece of material lying on a nearby table. She grabbed it, tossed it to Danny, and pulled out her camera. When Danny caught it, it was revealed to be a white jumpsuit in Danny's size with a black collar, gloves, belt, and boots. It also had an embarrassing picture of Jack's head on it.
"Smile!"
Her camera flashed, leaving a slightly stunned-looking Danny. He blinked to clear his vision.
"Okay, I showed you two the portal. Can we get out of here now? My parents could be down any minute to fix something. Besides, it obviously doesn't work. Remember the failure from just a few minutes ago?" he said, wanting nothing more than to play some video games. Maybe he would finally be able to get past a boss that was driving him insane on Kingdom Hearts II.
"Come on, Danny, a Ghost Zone? Aren't you curious? You've got to check it out!" replied Sam as she walked toward the entrance of the portal.
Danny came over to his best-friend-who-is-a-girl, still holding the jumpsuit. He started thinking about all of the amazing things that could be in there. This quickly led to a new interest in the portal. Even though it doesn't work, that didn't mean that he could imagine what could be inside. "You know what, Sam, you're right. Who knows what kind of awesome, super-cool things exist on the other side of this portal?"
He slipped on the jumpsuit, zipping it up with a determined look on his face. Maybe he'd be able to find the error that his parents were unable to locate.
Sam smiled, but then she noticed the Jack sticker. "Hang on," she said, walking over to him and peeling the sticker off. "You can't go walking around in there with that thing on your chest."
Danny turned toward the portal and walked in, his left hand against the wall for balance and guidance as he walked through the dark tunnel…
As he looked around the inside of the portal, Danny had to say that he was impressed, but he was also anxious. There were stray wires strewn throughout the portal, some of them faintly sparking with electricity, and it was quite dark inside. To help guide him to the end, he subconsciously placed his left hand on the wall.
Unfortunately, his father was enough of an idiot to place the ON button to the portal on the INSIDE of the invention, and it was right in the path that Danny's hand was going along.
Not exactly watching where his hand was running along the side of the portal, Danny was surprised to feel his hand depress a bit. He heard something along the lines of a beep and a click before the portal sprang to life, blasting him at all angles with an eerie green light laced with electricity and something… inhuman.
Danny could do nothing other than scream in the immense pain of being electrocuted. He could almost feel himself changing, as if his molecules were being reorganized and rearranged. The pain from the changing seemed to come in waves of different intensities and constantly felt different in the meaning that at one point it would feel like Danny was burning to a crisp, then the temperature seems to drop down to almost nothing.
Outside the portal, Sam and Tucker were horrified. "DANNY!" screamed Sam as she saw the portal light up with ecto-tricity. As the raven-haired boy began screaming in pain, Sam tried to run towards Danny and pull him out, but Tucker held her back.
"Do you want to end up like him?" he asked, sounding cold but trying to hide how upset he was. His best friend since preschool was being electrocuted, and would most likely die from all the electricity flowing through him right now.
Sam shook her head, tears forming in her eyes, a rarity from her. "We have to find some way to stop the portal, though!" she choked, turning away from Tucker to attempt to unplug the portal. The African-American teen soon followed his Gothic friend, but by the time they made it to the plugs and were making a valid attempt to separate them, the electricity-lit portal had been replaced by a swirling green vortex.
"Danny…" trailed Sam, who had fallen on her knees and was close to breaking down again. Tucker placed a hand on the Goth girl's shoulder, whispering, "Dude…" under his breath.
Meanwhile, Danny was relieved to feel the cool rush of air around him as the electricity subsided. The air now surrounding him was causing the pain to subside a bit, but it was still there, and it was causing him to feel weak.
Before he could collapse, he managed to stumble to the outside of the portal, stretching a now-white-gloved hand (though he didn't notice it at the time) to the arch of the portal. Griping it tightly, he managed to pull himself out and see a fairly blurred image of Sam and Tucker. He tried to give them a weak smile and barely whispered, "Fixed it," before he found the floor rushing up towards him, and then everything went black.
"Is he okay?" a distinctly feminine voice asked.
"He seems to be fine... except for the fact that he seems to be a ghost," replied a much more masculine voice, though the last part was whispered.
It took Danny a bit of time to realize what was going on. He still had his eyes closed, but after registering what was happening around him, he made the voices out to be Sam and Tucker's.
He stretched open his heavy eyelids and blinked a few times to adjust to the lighting of the lab and to his vision in general. As his vision cleared, he noticed Sam and Tucker looming over him, concerned expressions painted across their faces.
"Hey, guys," he managed to say weakly. His throat felt hoarse, probably from all the screaming inside the portal. "What happened? Why so worried?"
His two friends looked at each other for a moment before Tucker answered, "Dude, you might want to take a look at yourself in the mirror."
Danny was puzzled at the answer he was given, but nonetheless, he pulled himself to his feet, with his friends helping him up, and noticed that his suit was now white on black.
That's odd, he thought. I could've sworn that the suit I wore inside of the portal was black on white, not white on black.
Things only got stranger when he and his friends arrived at the mirror. At first, Danny was sure that the boy in the mirror wasn't him. The boy in the mirror had snowy-white hair, lightly tanned skin, glowing electric-green eyes, and a faint white glow around his body. But Danny confirmed that what he thought was wrong by placing a white-gloved hand on the mirror, as the reflection copied the gesture.
"This – this isn't real!" he shouted fearfully. "I can't be – a GHOST! Ghosts are evil creatures that harass the town! I'm not like that!"
I'm human! he mentally shouted, unconsciously visualizing himself before he entered the portal. Suddenly, a bright blue-white ring formed around his waist. It split in two, with one ring travelling upwards while the other travelled downwards. As the rings washed over him, the jumpsuit was replaced by his white and red T-shirt, blue jeans, and red and white sneakers, his ivory hair turned back to ebony, and his electric-green eyes returned to their normal sky-blue.
This only puzzled Danny even more. "What… just happened?" he asked.
Sam's mouth was agape; for she was having a bit of trouble processing what happened. She was certain that Danny had been a ghost when he walked out of the portal, and yet, here he was, fully human.
It was Tucker who spoke up. "I didn't think it was possible… Danny, I have a feeling that you're a ghost, yet a human at the same time. Half-human, half-ghost…"
Danny's eyes widened. "I'm… a half-ghost half-human hybrid?! That's practically the same as saying that I'm half dead!"
"No, I don't think that's what Tucker was trying to say. The ectoplasm that was visible when the portal was starting up," Sam added, "must have bonded with your DNA, and the electricity probably helped aid the bonding of the ectoplasm to your DNA. I believe I heard your parents say at one point that not all ghosts are the spirits of the dead; some of them are naturally-occurring ghosts made solely out of ectoplasm, similar to your ghost form." She didn't want to mention that the spirits of the dead were also made up of ectoplasm, as not to have Danny freak out again.
Danny was still confused, but the information that he wasn't half-dead, instead merely half made of ectoplasm, had relaxed him a bit. Not too much however, because there was still the matter of…
"Ghost powers," he whispered. Sam and Tucker turned towards him, just barely hearing his comment. "If I'm part ghost," he said, a bit louder this time, "then that probably means that I have ghost powers to go along with my ghost form…"
As if it were on cue, his left leg became slightly transparent, and Danny began to lose his balance as it sank through the steely-blue metal floor of the lab. He yelped in surprise, and his friends grabbed his arms and pulled him out of the floor.
Danny groaned. "Yep, looks like powers are part of the equation as well."
"But," Tucker began, "maybe if you could learn to control them better, you could use them!"
Sam cocked her head in curiosity. "What purpose would he have for them?"
"Well, maybe ghosts will come out of the ghost portal and start attacking the town. Then, Danny can use his new powers to protect the town, just like a superhero!"
"Yeah," Danny replied sarcastically, "the day I become a superhero will be the day that I actually enjoy having these powers."
Little did the three of them know that within the next month, Danny would be on the track for becoming the protector of Amity Park, and later the savior of the world and the dimension of ghosts.
Yeah, I am fully aware that the ending sucks, but I had a lot of trouble coming up with it. Don't flame me just because I can't think of a better ending.
~ F-R