Jazz had been home to hear it. She had been up in her room reading another thrilling chapter in her newest psychology book when that sound broke through the calm of the day.

It was sudden, it was sharp, and it was painful. It was the most horrible sound she had ever heard in her life. It sounded like someone was dying! And with how her parents obsessed over death she couldn't believe she'd never heard something like it before.

It took her a moment to realize that the sound wasn't just coming from the lab, but that her parents weren't home today. They had gone to a convention for the weekend and had left her in charge while they were away.

Jazz had seen it as ok that Danny let his friends come over. It was Friday and she had over heard that they had a pretty tough test that day. She knew how much Danny needed to de-stress, and his friends always were the best remedy.

It just hit her that she had heard them go downstairs earlier while she was in the kitchen. She had been fixing herself a snack and was about to offer to make something for them when she heard them clamor down from his room. Sam had sounded excited, saying that of course she wanted to see it. Tucker was also excited but not as much as the girl had been. Danny seemed a tad reluctant, but Jazz knew he didn't want to disappoint his friends.

That's when the truth had hit her the hardest. Danny was down stairs in the lab. He was down there with that horrible sound. That awful sound was filling up the room he was in with his friends.

"DANNY!" Jazz heard Sam and Tucker shout in unison.

"Oh my god." Jazz whispered to herself. That sound, that horrible, awful sound wasn't just down there with her brother. It was her brother! He was screaming and he was in pain! Oh god what was she going to do? She had to help him.

All that thinking had only taken a few minutes for Jazz to conclude that her brother was in trouble. She just hoped it wasn't going to be a few minutes that she would regret later. She ripped her door open and tore down the stairs, first one flight, and then the second flight to the basement.

Sam and Tucker were huddled around something on the floor. They both looked shocked. Jazz did her best as to not diagnose them as she cautiously walked up to them.

"Is-is he ok?" Jazz asked in a soft voice as if breaking the silence would ruin everything. As if things could get worse.

Tucker looked up at Jazz as if he didn't know who she was for a moment. Then he shook his head and shrugged saying, "I don't know, Jazz. He was up a moment ago but then he just, he just passed out."

Sam kept staring at Danny's still form. She couldn't seem to tear her eyes away from him and seemed to be muttering something under her breath. It was too soft for Jazz to tell what it was, but the guilt in Sam's eyes gave it away. Sam was blaming herself for this. But the question was why.

No, the real question was, "What happened?" Jazz found herself asking aloud.

Tucker looked back to Sam for help but on seeing her, decided to take things into his own hands. "Danny told us about how your parents had made a new invention. And how it didn't work. He said they called it 'The Fenton Portal' and how it was gonna be a door to 'the other side'. Sam, well she really likes creepy stuff, so she got kinda into the idea. She asked to see it. I was pretty curious too but Danny said it didn't work, he said it wasn't worth looking at a big hole in the wall. But Sam didn't back down. She kept egging him on. And you know how he gives into peer pressure." Tucker paused.

He had started to talk a lot quicker towards the end of that and looked a bit winded from it. Jazz waited a moment, letting Tucker regain his composure.

He took a deep breath and continued, "He took us down here. He showed us the portal, said that it didn't work. How he was actually kinda bummed about how it didn't work. Said he hated to see how the light of hope had died from his parents' eyes when it didn't work. Said that's why they were gone this weekend. He said it was his idea, find some cool ghost thing for them and encourage them to go to it. Even though he wasn't sure that the portal would ever work, he didn't want them to be sad about it anymore. Said to them that maybe it would give them a better way to make it. Maybe it would give them the answer as to why it wasn't working." Tucker shook his head and looked like he was holding back some tears. He took a sharp breath and finished his tale. "Danny just looked so bummed that we just thought that if we messed around down here it'd help. Maybe if we did something silly like go into the broken portal we could pretend it worked. Danny said he should check it first, said it might not be 100% safe. Said it might not... He put on one of the suits and went inside... it looked so dark in there... I heard the click... then the flash of light was so bright I thought it was lighting. But then... I heard... him." Tucker's gaze fell back onto Danny.

Jazz couldn't believe it. Of the years and years of failed inventions something finally did something. It seemed that the lab wasn't safe after all. Jazz just couldn't believe it.

The light on Danny's face made him look so pale, and it was eerie, discolored, green. Wait green? Jazz looked up to the light source and finally notice that the portal was alight with an odd green glow. The same hole in the wall that Jazz had tried to tell her parents to stop working on was now working. Would her parents finally be right? Would they be proud of Danny for helping him on this? Danny!

She snapped her attention back to her baby brother and was about to suggest that they take him to the hospital when he let out small grunt.

If all eyes weren't on Danny before, they were now. He opened his eyes slowly, blinked and closed them again. "Anyone catch the number of that bus? That's the last time I take a taxi into the city." Danny said with a smirk and slight chuckle.

Jazz had to think for a moment, was Danny just making a joke? Tucker let out a laugh, "Dude that didn't even make sense. I think you mixed those metaphors."

"Did I?" Danny said as he opened his eyes again and cocked a brow at his best friend. "Funny, I guess I wasn't quite awake yet when I was thinking of that." He sat up and quickly put his hand to his head. "oh, head rush. Man how long was I out? I had the craziest dream, I-." Danny opened his eyes and looked forward, right into the glowing, swirling portal and stopped.

Jazz couldn't see the look on his face but by the way his body had just tensed it couldn't have been good.

"N-never mind." Danny quickly got up and turned away from the light. The shadows of the room and his messy hair still blocked his expression form Jazz's view. He went to take a step away but he wobbled and nearly fell back to the floor when Sam's arm snapped out and caught him.

Jazz felt bad because she had all but forgotten that Sam was even there. She had just been so quite this whole time it was almost like she had disappeared.

"Let's go back to your room Danny. " Sam said in a soft almost whisper.

Danny nodded in response and reached his hand to hold the supportive arm she was giving him. Tucker quickly followed suit and the three went back to Danny's room without another word.

Jazz stayed in the lab for a few moments more. She just couldn't believe what she had just seen. She could of sworn she had heard her brother screaming like he was dying, but there he was, just shy of being perfectly fine. What had she missed?