"Are you the boy that ran the talent show?" Jake's question made the purple-haired kid glance up.

The kid opened his mouth to answer, but was promptly cut off by Spectra. "Ah, Jake, this is a testing zone, no talking please." Her eyes locked onto the dragon, "Please, take a seat. I was about to go over the rules of testing..."

Jake went to retaliate, but was also cut off from saying anything. He tried a few seconds later, but was unable to say what he wanted to because of Spectra. Eventually, the two boys took their seats: Danny on left of the purple-haired boy (near the door), Jake on the right. As Spectra laid out the rules -along with some personal regulations- Danny turned to Jake and gestured to the kid between them. Jake answered with a shrug, but mouthed a "Randy" with a quizzical look, then hesitated and mouthed another word, "Sandy". Danny glanced at the teen in question, and he gave Danny an odd look. By the look on Jake's face, the teen had given the same look to Jake.

"Excuse me." All three boys turned to the counselor in the room. "Get ready to begin."

Dread bubbled over as Spectra dropped the test onto his desk with a thud. As soon as he got the test, he fanned through the pages. No wonder it was an all-day test. He sighed and picked up his pencil, opening the packet to the first question.

~ . . Time skip to after test! ^^ . . ~

Danny couldn't remember what exactly was on the test, but knew he was done with anything involving his brain for a little while. Danny glanced back as Jake's friends trotted up behind Danny, Jake, Sam, and Tucker as they were walking and talking.

"We heard that another kid was late to the test. Spill the beans!" It was a darker-skinned girl whom Jake had been hanging out with earlier.

"Yeah! The beans!" The beanie kid was back too.

Danny glanced at Sam and Tuck, saw their confused expressions, and shrugged. He didn't know who they were either. That is, other than the fact that they were Jake's friends.

"It was some kid named Randy." Jake replied to the girl, "Remember he co-hosted all of those talent shows?"

"Yeah, I think so." The girl replied.

Danny cut in to go back on topic, "As I was saying, I haven't seen a trace of this ninja kid we keep running into." Danny phazed through a rock by his foot to avoid tripping. The group was migrating home. Jake was following Danny back to Fenton Works to see what it was all about, Sam and Tuck were just tagging along to stall on homework.

"I know, he's good at hiding himself." Jake replied, turning back to the conversation as well.

"Maybe this ninja has a hidden Jiu Jitsu!" Tucker raised his hands to imitate some karate chops.

"Or maybe he just has a hidden identity he switches into." Sam joined in, bringing a more logical approach. "Like Jake and Danny here."

"We should find his identity." Danny replied to Sam's comment.

"The whole point of a secret identity is that it's secret." The new girl replied.

"Oh right. I haven't introduced you guys yet." Jake paused his walk, causing the group to slow to a stop. "Trixie, Spud these people are part of our 'save-the-mythical-beasts' club." Jake gestured to Danny, "That's Danny. He's a ghost."

"Hello." Danny replied in a moderate tone. "Half-ghost, Jake. I'm half ghost."

"Hey." The girl replied, "I'm Trixie if you couldn't tell."

"I'm a human!"

"That's Spud." Jake said, "He's different." Jake then turned to the goth, "The one in black is Sam."

"Greetings."

"And that's Tucker."

"You," Tuck gestured to Trixie and raised an eyebrow, "may call me-"

"No thanks." Trixie cut Tucker off.

"Yeah, I'm not really into guys." Spud raised his hand and shook his head as he spoke.

"Where you headin'?" Trixie asked as the six started to move again.

"Fenton Works." Danny replied.

"You mean that house with the big... thingy on top?"

Sam replied before Danny could, "That's the OP center. And yes, that's where we're going."

"Great." Trixie replied, sounding thoroughly 'excited'.

Idle chit-chat filled the conversation after that, Trixie, Spud, Tuck, and Sam were getting to know each other. Every once in a while, Danny would correct or clarify something Tucker said about their adventures, and Jake would do the same for Trixie.

Time passed quickly, and Tuck was finishing up the group's list of enemies as they reached Fenton Works. "...Spectra, Ember, and Kitty are the worst of the girls."

"Ah, so Spectra is a ghost?" Jake shivered, "no wonder I didn't like her."

"Yeah, and she feeds off of other's misery to stay young forever. Kinda creepy right?" Danny added to Jake's surprise.

Jake simply nodded, and Danny gestured for the group to be quiet. "Dad and Mom are avid ghost hunters, and don't know I'm a ghost. I'd rather keep it that way, kay?"

Jake once more nodded, this time with a bit more understanding.

As representative for the six, Danny opened the door tentatively. "I'm home~" He called, then opened up the door fully. "I brought some new friends..."

The group waited for a minute, and just as Danny was going to celebrate that his parents went home, Maddie Fenton dashed to the door. "Danny! I heard you brought friends over!"

"Hello Mrs. Fenton." Jake walked into the door, and glanced to Danny to make sure he was correct with the name.

As Danny nodded, His mom jumped a few times. "Danny hasn't made friends in a while! Ever since that Dash kid-"

"Mom, Dash isn't my friend!"

"Oh sure he isn't." Maddie gestured for Jake to come into the house, and Jake complied.

"Hey Mrs. Fenton." Sam walked in next followed by Tucker.

"Oh hello Sam and Tucker, how are you? Haven't talked in a while!"

"Yo, I'm Trixie. Pardon the intrusion."

"Mrs. Fenton is it? I'm Spud!" Spud held his hand out for Maddie to shake, but Trixie pulled it back to the teen's side.

"We'll be in my room mom." Danny said, and herded his friends to the stairs.

"I'll bring snacks up for you in a bit." Maddie called, but the teenagers were already in Danny's room.

"Heh, I'm surprised we all fit in your room Danny." Sam commented once everyone found their own spot in the room.

"Honestly, me too." Danny replied, and turned to the people raiding his game cabinet. "So this is Fenton Works, I'm here maybe half the times my parents think I'm here."

"Cool." Jake replied and jumped onto the bed next to Danny. "So what's with the whole half-ghost thing? I mean, I was born as a dragon. Were you born a ghost?"

Danny sighed, he knew he'd have to answer this question eventually, but hadn't figured out how to explain the ghost realm. "My dad made a portal to the ghost realm by accident. Sam dared me to go into the portal-" Danny's tone changed as he injected the extra info, "-now, at the time we assumed that the thing was broken, so I had close to no qualms about going in."

"I don't think I dared you." Sam complained as she interrupted.

"Yeah, you did." Tucker pulled out his PDA and played a voice recording that proved she was guilty.

"You were recording it?" Sam asked Tucker, more surprised than angry, "How, no, why would you even consider that?"

"Hey, you never know when-"

"Anyways," Danny shut off the conversation before it went out of hand. "I went in, turned on the portal, and BAM!" The room all turned to Danny as he exclaimed the word. "I was a ghost." He shrugged. "I eventually figured out that I could change between a human and a ghost."

"Hmm. That's more exciting than my origin story." Jake commented.

"But what's this ghost zone?" Trixie asked.

"Portal!?" Spud jumped up, he either was just coming into the conversation, just processed it, or just woke up from a nap. Danny wasn't sure which one it was.

"Come on, I'll show you the portal if you want." Danny hopped off his bed and led the group down a few floors.