"I a-a-m deeeclaring-g-g a ssstate of emmmerrgencyy." Was the first thing Danny's delayed ears heard. He was laying on the couch with a blanket over him, his left arm was asleep because it was dangling off the side. He hurt, everywhere. He felt like he had been made into a pelt for Skulker. He tried to sit up, but felt pressure, and laid back down. He opened his eyes Jazz came into focus. She was speaking to him, but it was so garbled he couldn't understand her. He put on a questionable face and stared at her. Her tears splashed on his face. He wiped them away and picked up his left arm and laid it down on his stomach with his right hand. Jazz walked out of view and his mother came into it. She gave him a drink and he instantly felt better.
"Is he okay?" Jazz asked.
"Yeah. I'm fine." Danny said.
"Oh my gosh! Danny!" Jazz ran over and hugged him. He winced, but smiled when she looked at him.
"I'm sorry for yelling at you, but please just ask if I need help first, the only exception is if I'm totally overwhelmed, good aim by the way." Danny told her.
"Oh I missed, I meant to get Desiree..." she said, Danny raised his eyebrows, he looked to the left and saw that the news was on, it was mayor Montez. Tuck had given up the position because he wanted less responsibility as a 14 year-old, he was discussing ghost safety. Danny finally sat up, he closed his eyes and grimaced in pain, but when he was up all the way and had opened his eyes, he was kissing Sam.
"How ya holdin' up?" she asked as she petted his hair.
"Much better." He stood up, his knees buckled, and he went down, his right hand landing on the coffee table to stabilize him. He pushed himself into a standing position. "Three of my limbs are asleep, how long have I been out?" he wondered as he hobbled around the living room, getting used to his legs and shaking his arm so it would wake up.
"Only a few hours, your dad is downstairs working on the portal," Tucker said, " He said that it needed improvements anyway."
Danny headed for the basement stairs, "I'm going to go check up on him." He took the stairs slowly, gripping the rail for dear life. "Dad?" he called. He heard a drill. He made the landing and looked over the portal was almost completely taken apart and there were marks on the wall around it in a huge rectangle like form. "What are you doing?"
Jack looked up, "I'm rebuilding the portal, I already have the dimensions from the old one converted to the new one, your mother did that for me, and now I'm putting it to work." He took a drink of soda. Danny looked at him nervously, "Do you have any idea how long it's gonna to take?"
"Well at this rate, one week." he said as he stood up.
"So you're saying we have to keep these ghosts at bay until then?" Danny asked.
"That's exactly what I'm saying sport! I think you guys can do it. Just don't try to take them on by yourself, we saw how that ended." Jack answered.
"What we need is a good plan. Something to get a majority of the ghosts captured at once." Danny analyzed.
"When I get this baby up and running it'll have enough juice for one Fenton Wipe out, which is when any ectoplasmic energy source in Amity Park gets sucked into the portal."
"That's great, but we really should be collecting ghosts like Desiree, Vortex, Ember, and Skulker now..."
"Well, you could get those ghosts first, and have reserved thermoses for them. Vlad's portal is still available, if you want to empty the thermoses there. It's the only way into the Ghost Zone currently."
"Yeah, Okay, I'll keep that in mind. I'm going to go get everyone together so we can fight these ghosts."
"I'll be here, this new ghost portal is going to be better than the last one, and I'll make sure it's switched on before I plug it in."
Danny nodded, "Good idea." he said and took the stairs back up normally.