Danny Phantom in A Twist in the Dimensions

by TrojanHalks2012

After Jazz's High School Graduation Ceremony is brought to a grinding halt by a ghostly ambush, orchestrated by Vlad, Team Phantom finds themselves in a different dimension thanks to Freakshow and the newly recreated Reality Gauntlet. Divided amongst themselves, and with Freakshow hot on their trail, they must join forces with Team Possible if they ever want to return home.

37. Till We Meet Again

Attention all former, current and new readers! This is NOT a standalone story; it is part of a faux story lineup I have written as part of a continuation of the TV series. If you have not previously read the stories, or chapters, that come before this one, I highly advise at least giving them a onceover. A list of the stories that I have written for the lineup can be found on my homepage here on this site. It lists the stories in their correct order. However, if you wish to continue, you may do so at your own discretion…you have been warned.

Danny Phantom is owned by Butch Hartman and Nickelodeon Studios. Any OCs are created and owned by me or have been used with permission by their original creators.

Kim Possible is owned by Disney.

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First things first, Happy New Years everyone! I actually had this chapter done late yesterday night, but I had to be up early for work earlier today, so I didn't have time to proof-read it before posting. Anyway, it's here now, so I hope everyone enjoys reading this as we are finally bringing this story closer to its end.

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Danny kicked at the ash covered ground, uplifting a small cloud of dust that quickly settled. He looked down at the ash covered ground as the dust settled with a disheartened look in his eyes before he turned and glanced at his younger cloned sister as she held the Reality Gauntlet in her arms.

She turned it over in her hands, putting her arm against it and comparing its length to her arm; it would've come all the way up to her shoulder if she'd put it on. "This thing is a lot bigger than I thought it was," she said, mostly to herself as she took a closer look at the gems that were inserted into it. "Never got the chance to get a good look at it earlier."

She glanced up from the gauntlet only when she heard footsteps approaching. She quickly looked away nervously when she realized that it was Danny walking up to her. She groaned nervously, not knowing what to say to him when he stopped in front of her. With his flaming white hair and dark rimmed, silver colored eyes, he looked rather intimidating, even more so considering what she knew he was now capable of. The pile of ash on the ground was an ever-lasting reminder.

"So, how bad is it?" he asked her.

"Huh?" she responded, shocked out of her nervousness by how casually he had spoken to her. She glanced back up at him and found that, in spite of his change in physical appearance, he wasn't at all frightening. She found her fear of him gradually melt away as she realized that she had no reason to fear him. "Umm, how bad is what?" she asked, finding that asking the question, and speaking with him in general, wasn't difficult at all. She wasn't intimidated by him at all, and that put her at ease.

"The gauntlet," he answered as he held out his hand. She handed the reality altering device over and allowed him to examine it. "How badly was it damaged?" he asked her as he began to examine it, noticing the cracks that had formed across its length.

"Oh, umm, it appears that a few cracks have formed," she began to explain as he turned it over in his hands and more closely looked at it. "The gems all seem to be alright, thankfully," she sighed with relief.

"Yeah, well, Plasmius did admit to making a new one to replace the one I destroyed last year," Danny admitted, reminding her of what the older hybrid said during the ambush back in their own world nearly a week previously. "But the gems were crafted by someone called a 'Timeless Ghost'," he admitted as he lowered the gauntlet and looked down at her. "And they can only ever be destroyed by a 'Timeless Ghost', apparently," he added as he looked away as if in thought.

"Never heard of a 'Timeless Ghost' before," Danielle admitted as she folded her arms and looked towards the ground as if she too were in deep thought. "What are they?" she asked, glancing back up at him, hoping that he might know who, or what, they were; seeing as he seemed to be a bit more informed on the gauntlet's origins than she was.

"Freakshow once described them as extremely powerful spectral beings; some of the most powerful in the entire history of the Ghost Zone," he answered, coming out of his thoughts and looking back at her. "They are so powerful, that they can only be destroyed at the hands of another 'Timeless Ghost'," he added before he realized they were getting off topic. "In any case, the gauntlet looks to be intact, but has sustained significant damage," he pointed out, getting back on track. "It might only have a few uses left in it," he speculated.

"Then we should prioritize our uses then," someone suggested, catching the sibling's attention. They both turned and stared wide eyed at KP's ghost form as she approached. She had one arm wrapped around her midsection and she seemed to be limping. She sported several cuts and bruises on her face, but her suit remained intact. Otherwise, she seemed alright. "You said you needed it intact in order to get home?" she asked, glancing at Danny; never minding that his hair was still nothing more than white flames.

He nodded. "Yeah, and we'll need it in order to restore all of the damage that Freakshow did to your world," he reminded her, pointing out that her world had received significant damage that couldn't be reversed otherwise.

"My world can wait," she growled as she gave him a disapproving glare before she became sympathetic and placed her free hand on his shoulder. "Your sister, and our friends, need our help first," she reminded him before she glanced over at their loved ones lying on the ground as Monique, Rufus and Cujo watched over them.

"KIM!" Monique cried when the other three approached. She wrapped her arms around her friend, being reciprocated before they separated. "I was afraid that you were dead too," she sniffled before she wiped tears off her face with her shirt sleeve.

"I probably would've been, if it hadn't been for my suit," she answered with a reassuring smile. "It's self-healing, remember?" she asked, reminding her of the super-suit's special properties. "It took the brunt of the attack; so I was never directly affected by the life-draining properties," she explained. "The explosion did hurt a bit though; and Freakshow pummeling me like that certainly didn't help any," she said as she rubbed her midsection where it was apparently still hurting.

"Enough chit-chat," Danny scolded them as he pulled the Reality Gauntlet over his arm and flexed his hand into a fist. "The longer we wait, the less likely this is to work," he warned them as he pressed the Red Gem of Life and began to charge red energy in his fist. "Please get your human self out of the line of fire," he requested of KP. "I don't want to run the risk of killing her too in my attempt to bring back the others," he explained, briefly glancing at her out of the corner of his eye.

Indeed, KP's human form was still staring off into space with a blank look in her eyes. Her mouth just hung open and her arms hung by her side, limply. There was no response from her; no sign of emotion, nothing. She had literally been rendered completely unresponsive to everything around her. She was currently sitting on her knees next to the others and had to be lifted and carried out of the way, bridal style, by her own ghost form so Danny could have a clear shot at doing this right.

"You sure this'll work?" Danielle asked of her brother, looking up at him with worry.

"I don't really know," he answered honestly as he gave her an uncertain glance that revealed his own doubts about this plan. "But if this thing can give life to inanimate objects, then why not those that have had life taken away?" he theorized. "It's worth a shot; we have to at least try."

He aimed his gauntleted hand at Ron, Jazz and KM, lying on the ground and released a hazy beam of red energy that struck them, leaving a red smoke that rose from their bodies. Everyone waited with baited breath for a few moments, all dreading that it wouldn't work; when suddenly, three pairs of eyes suddenly shot open.

All three gasped loudly as they all bolted into upright sitting positions, taking in deep lungful's of air after spending several minutes being legally dead. They all took to looking into the palms of their hands as Monique and Danielle cheered for their friend's miraculous revitalization.

"Huh?" Ron questioned, completely dumbfounded that he had suddenly woken up. He showed no change in reaction as Monique slapped him on the shoulder with a smirk and a snicker as Rufus jumped onto his face and latched on, balling his eyes out with happiness. "Did what I think just happened, actually happen?" he asked no one in particular as he patted the naked rodent's back soothingly.

"Were we actually brought back?" Jazz asked, glancing at KM by her side, sounding and looking completely flabbergasted as the other girl returned her gaze.

"That or we're all dead," KM answered with a sullen groan as she faced forward and gave the ground a somewhat irritated look.

KM glanced back at her friend as Danielle and Cujo both leapt onto the redhead girl; Danielle wrapping her arms around the older girl's neck and crying into her shoulder as Cujo licked her face repeatedly, leaving behind trails of slimy green saliva, resulting in her giggling in her attempts to turn away and make him stop. Her mouth hung open for a moment before she glanced up and saw KP's ghost form smirking down at her. Ignoring, or simply not noticing, the other redhead that hung limply in her arms, she turned and saw Danny standing over them with his now gauntleted hand resting on his waist with his other arm hanging limply as he too smiled down on his revitalized loved ones.

"We won?" she asked, sounding hopeful despite the answer being quite clear. Danny looked at his gauntleted arm as he raised it up to show her the gems gleaming in the morning sunlight.

"Hmm?" he huffed when he noticed the cracks in the gauntlet spreading and widening. Small chips even began to flake off. It wasn't going to last for much longer.

"Awesome!" she cheered, pumping both fists by her sides. "I really hope you burned that Freak to ashes," she snickered with delight.

"Hee hee," Danny laughed nervously as he scratched the side of his head with one finger, putting aside his concerns for the gauntlet for just a moment. "Yeah, about that," he grumbled before a quick shot of the ground some distance away revealed a bit of smoke still rising from the burnt ground. It was this nervous response on Danny's part that alerted KM to his change in physical appearance.

"Ahh! Danny! Your hair!" she gasped, finally realizing that it was now made out of white flames and licked at the air over his head.

"What!?" Jazz gasped, her attention finally drawn away from the warm embrace she was sharing with Danielle.

"YAAH!" Ron screeched fearfully before he jumped to his feet and hid behind Monique, using her as a human shield. She didn't take much offense to this and merely smirked as she shook her head. "I've said it before, and I'll say it again. That is just plain creepy," he stuttered, poking his head out from behind his friend.

"I'm inclined to agree," Jazz agreed with his statement as she approached her younger brother, after getting to her feet, and ran her hand through his flaming hair, not afraid of it getting burnt; which it didn't, thankfully. "How'd you do it?" she asked curiously, her eyes still trained on the rising white flames.

"I think it's some form of defense mechanism," he guessed as he glanced up, trying to see his own flaming hair. "Initiated after watching you get killed," he continued to explain. "It sent me into a rage induced frenzy that left Freakshow nothing more than a literal pile of ashes," he concluded, looking back at her with a slightly disheartened expression. "I've since calmed down, but I can't quite figure out how to turn it off without changing back into my human form," he mentioned, almost casually, as he glanced back up at the white flames.

"I think you just need to wait for it to wear off on its own," Danielle suggested. Danny, Jazz and KM all looked down to her, somewhat surprised that she could've guessed that. "Remember when it happened to me back in April?" she asked them, reminding them of her temporary boost in power after being electrocuted during a fight with Technus. Apparently they'd forgotten because they all seemed to be trying to recall the events that had happened. "I couldn't turn it off either," she pointed out. "I kinda just had to wait for the power to wear off," she said shrugging her shoulders. "Didn't have to happen in the middle of my fight with Skulker, but still," she grumbled as she looked sideways with a glare.

"Well however long it may take, let's hope you can put it to good use on Vlad next after we get back home," KM said quite enthusiastically. "Now that we've got the Reality Gauntlet, we'll be the ones ambushing him and his cronies," she snickered as she punched the palm of her hand.

"No, we won't," Danny refuted her as he shook his head. "The Reality Gauntlet will do us no good once we get home," he informed the girls. Shocked by his refutation, they all looked at the gauntlet on his arm and were further shocked by its cracked condition. "It was severally damaged during my fight with Freakshow," he explained to those that hadn't been able to witness it, for obvious reasons. "And reviving you guys didn't improve its condition; it's barely holding itself together right now as it is," he continued. "At best, I'd say it's got one more use before it completely falls apart," he concluded.

The sound of glass breaking could practically be heard as this sudden realization spread across the horrified faces of those present.

"After that, we can only use the gems individually," he continued as they all looked on with horrified expressions. "Which does us no good in the end, because we need all of them working together in order to accomplish the remainder of our goals."

"Ok, so what all do we have left to do?" KM asked, almost afraid to hear that there was too much to clean up for them to leave with clear consciousness. If only she knew that her hunch wasn't too far from the truth.

"Besides opening a portal back to our world?" Danny asked her as he tried to answer her question. "And fixing the damage Freakshow caused to this world after he'd killed all of you," he added whilst glancing between the three that had been revived. "There's still one other casualty that we suffered that can quite possibly only be fixed with the use of the gauntlet," he concluded as he glumly looked down at his gauntleted arm.

"Another casualty?" Jazz asked, sounding almost surprised. "But you revived all of us," she reminded him with a scowl. "Who else did we lose?" she asked, sounding quite confused with his train of logic.

"In case you haven't noticed-" Danielle spoke up, causing the older teens to look down at her as she looked off to her side at the person, or persons in question; "but we now have one extra person in our little group," she informed them with a troubled look in her eyes.

The others followed her gaze with curiosity and confusion before the three that had been revived were further shocked once again by the sight of KP's ghost form holding her human form in her arms, bridal style. Her human form was still staring off into space with a traumatized look on her face. Evidently they had all been so distracted with talking with Danny that they'd failed to even notice the ghost girl holding her own human form in her arms.

"KP!" Ron shouted in shocked horror upon seeing his girlfriend…girlfriends? He kept looking back and forth between the two, not quite sure what to make of what he was seeing. "You've been split!?" he shouted in surprise.

Rufus hopped down from Ron's shoulder and stood on KP's human form's stomach, waving in her face to hopefully elicit some kind of reaction from the traumatized girl. "Uh-oh," he groaned and hung his head with disappointment when she failed to acknowledge him.

"Oh yeah, I forgot that Freakshow managed to separate your ghost form and your human form shortly before he killed me," Jazz recalled, though the sad tension that now hung in the air prevented her from expressing her recalled realization.

"How on Earth are we supposed to fix this!?" Ron asked starting to grow hysterical as he grabbed handfuls of his hair and pulled, threatening to uproot several chunks.

"Honestly, I'm not even sure the Reality Gauntlet can do it," Danny confessed before he raised his gauntleted arm and looked down at it as he rubbed the back of his head with his other hand. "The process of combining a ghost half and a human half together is quite complicated. The entire concept is essentially impossible from a theoretical standpoint," he admitted. "There's a strong, and very real, possibility that it simply can't be done at all," he concluded with a shrug of his shoulders.

"So what is there that we can do?" Monique asked, sounding worried for her friend as she placed a hand on KP's human form's shoulder, getting no reaction out of the traumatized girl.

"We know plenty of scientists that we can call in favors to," KP's ghost form answered, trying to raise the other's hopes and spirits. "Plus, my mom is a world renowned neurosurgeon and rehabilitator; I'm sure that she'll get her all the help she needs," she reassured them as she looked down at her human self and forced a smile. "Even if we never are the same person again," she said, accepting that there might not be anything that can be done.

"If you're really ok with that, then I guess I know what I have to do," Danny confided with her as he placed his free hand on her shoulder before he turned and walked a bit away from them.

He turned again and looked at his sisters and the other Kim, seeing the sorrow in their eyes as they watched. In spite of KP being ok with what happened to her, they still seemed shamefaced over what happened. Unless they were feeling guilty over something else. Something else that he too felt remorseful over, and would feel guilt-ridden if he didn't do anything about it.

He tensed up and powered up, his aura exploding around him and rising upwards like flames. He raised his gauntleted arm and extended it out as the gems all began glowing in unison. The entire gauntlet began glowing with white energy as he appeared to prepare to open a portal; but to KP's shock, he raised the gauntlet and aimed towards the sky.

He released a beam of white energy into the air where it exploded in a brilliant flash of white light. When the light faded, several rings of white light were spreading outwards, quickly spreading across the globe, undoing all the damage Freakshow had caused to the world. Everyone winced as the reality altering energy passed over them. Cujo shivered before his eyes began glowing bright red. The glow faded and his eyes returned to normal before he shook his head to clear it after he'd undergone some sort of alteration.

When the light show came to an end, Danny's aura faded until it was a normal ghostly glow. He cracked a slight smile as his eyes changed from silver to bright green and his hair returned to its normal texture.

His eyes widened in surprise when he heard a loud cracking noise. His smile faded into a frown as he looked down at the gauntlet and watched as it finally fell to pieces, being unable to hold itself together any longer. Shards of bronze colored metal scattered across the ground as the four small gems fell around his feet. They were still glowing with their own internal light before they began to flicker and eventually the glows faded altogether.

"Are you insane!?" KP screamed at him. He looked up from the reality gems at his feet and turned to face her as she stared back at him with disbelief in her eyes. "How are you supposed to get back home now!?" she screeched at him, utterly horrified by the decision he'd made. "Your world is still in grave danger!" she reminded him, incase he'd forgotten for some reason. "Mine is safe now; you could've been gone and working to fix yours."

"And leave yours in shambles?" Danny retorted, rather scoldingly as he glared at her. "If I'd gone back to fix my world without undoing the otherwise irreversible damage done to yours, I would never have been able to live with myself," he informed her. "And I strongly suspect that as much as they want to go home, the girls agree with me," he pointed out, nodding towards his sisters and the other Kim, who all glanced away from him regretfully. "Now that we don't have the threat of Freakshow breathing down our necks, I'm sure we'll figure something else out," he reassured her, his scolding tone melting away into a reassuring one.

"Well, if you guys are gunna be sticking around, then we should probably consider getting back home," Monique suggested as she came up beside her friend. "Kim's not looking too good right now," she said with worry as she frowned at her friend's human form, still staring off into space with a traumatized look in her eyes. "I hate seeing her like this. She really needs help."

The sound of a roaring engine and spinning turbines silenced them as they all looked towards the sky for the source of the intrusive noise. A black and red hover vehicle was descending towards them from above. When the flying vehicle had descended low enough, the side door opened before it touched the ground, revealing a friendly face.

"You guys!" Wade called out to them with a grin on his face as he waved over to them. He lurched and grabbed for a side railing when the flying vehicle touched down not too far from where the teens stood.

"And help has arrived," Ron said coolly, no longer seeming to be dreading their situation, as he ran over to the flying vehicle as its engines shut off and silence returned to the clearing.

The others followed over, though Danielle seemed to be hiding nervously behind her older adoptive brother as they approached the flying vehicle as Wade came off the lowered ramp and ran over to them, meeting them halfway.

"You have no idea how relieved I am to see that you guys are all ok," he sighed with relief after he and Ron grasped each other's forearms in some bizarre greeting. "I became worried after that large energy sphere opened up within this clearing," he informed them, reminding them that he'd been trying to watch via satellite. "When I lost the signals for your homing beacons, I called up G.J. to see if we could lend a hand."

"Luckily, it would seem that our concerns were for naught and our assistance was not required," a woman's voice spoke up from behind him.

Everyone looked back towards the flying vehicle as an older woman with brown hair approached them. She wore an eye patch over her right eye and wore a blue jumpsuit. Danielle recognized her instantly and hid herself entirely behind her older adoptive brother, much to his confusion.

"Dr. Director was kind enough to give me a lift," Wade informed the others before he began to nervously rub the back of his neck. "Even after I hacked into one of their satellites," he admitted with a nervous chuckle after she came up beside him.

"All is forgiven, this time around," Dr. Director assured him before her one eye scowled. "Though try not to let it happen again," she warned before she turned and faced Danny, who stood beside Ron. "And you must be the illustrious Danny Phantom we've heard so much about?" she asked as she offered her hand to shake his. "Pleasure to actually meet you in person," she added with a slight nod of her head.

"Uh, likewise, I think?" he responded, sounding a bit more confused.

"Now then, I'd like to get down to business," she proclaimed as she folded her arms behind her back. "I'd like to have a word with Ms. Possible and yourself regarding what occurred here earlier this morning," she declared her intentions; the teens in front of her all suddenly growing restless at her mentioning of speaking with KP.

"We may need to get her to a hospital before any kind of questioning is conducted," Monique stressed.

The group suddenly parted, allowing Dr. Director to have a clear view of the ghost girl holding her traumatized human form. One look at the unresponsive girl, and it was clear that something was terribly wrong. "Hmm, I had not been expecting this," she mumbled to herself with worry upon seeing the petrified human girl.

"Oh no! What happened!?" Wade asked with worry of his own as he placed a hand on the human girl's forehead, getting no response from her. She didn't even move her eyes to look at him; she just kept staring off into space, only occasionally blinking and breathing, the only signs that she was even still alive.

"Freakshow separated me from my human half," KP answered him glumly. "When that happened, I retained my human self's entire emotional range of reactiveness, leaving her like…this," she concluded as she shifted her human form's weight in her arms, readjusting how she held her slightly.

"Well, it's not the first time your mind and emotional range have been messed with," Wade recollected on some of her past missions.

"Not anything like this," she denied whilst shaking her head.

"We know plenty of scientists that can help; I'll just have to call in a few favors," he offered, trying to give her hope. "We can figure out a way to fix this," he said with a grin as he made a fist and raised it up in front of himself.

"If it's all the same to you, I'd like to get her back home," KP counter-suggested his offer. "See if there's anything my mother might be able to do for her."

"I can offer up transport back to Middleton," Dr. Director offered. "Perhaps you can get settled in while I speak with our new friend here for a moment," she suggested, momentarily glancing at Danny before standing aside and letting the ghost girl carry her human form towards the flying vehicle. Ron and Monique followed after her with Jazz and the other Kim in tow; leaving the two phantom siblings and Cujo to stay behind with Dr. Director as she had implied as her intensions. After watching the teens make their way towards the transport, Dr. Director's eye shifted so that her gaze fell onto the young girl. "Glad to see she found her own way back to you safely," she commented with a grin. This only caused the young girl to shrink and hide behind Danny even more.

"Oh, yeah, that's right. You guys did agree to go looking for her for us, didn't you?" Danny was suddenly reminded of their plan to search for his sister after the whole incident in Paris.

"Wait, you guys sent her and that other goon after me!?" Danielle suddenly shouted as she jumped out from behind her older adoptive brother so she could more easily confront him. She glared up at him as she expected a response, but he only smirked at her.

"Our hands were a bit tied up; so our new friend called in a favor to some acquaintances of hers to see if they could find you and bring you back to us before all of this happened," he explained as he waved his arms around at the clearing where the fight with Freakshow had occurred. "And it sounds to me like they did find you; though it appears to me like you didn't exactly come along quietly," he guessed as he raised an eyebrow in amusement; no doubt expecting an answer out of her now.

"I thought they'd been sent by Vlad or something to capture me," she responded with a grumble as she folded her arms and looked away with a pout, eliciting a bark of approval from Cujo. "I didn't know they were there to help."

"Hmm, I guess I could understand that," Danny conceded. Dr. Director quickly glanced from the young girl to him as she carefully observed them. This did not go unnoticed by the young girl who suddenly started to feel bad about her actions towards them the other day.

"I'm sorry I attacked you and the other guy," Danielle apologized to her as she began to blush nervously. "I wasn't aware at the time that I was in a different universe and that you were there to help me. I genuinely thought that you'd been sent by another enemy of ours in order to capture me," she explained herself to the older woman.

Dr. Director appeared to stare intensely at the young girl as she contemplated the ghost girl's apology, only serving to make her even more nervous than before when she thought she was going to get in trouble. Thankfully, Dr. Director smiled down at her.

"Apology accepted," she replied with a nod towards the ghost girl, helping to relieve her of the tension she was feeling at the moment. "Agent Du is still a bit flustered by our previous encounter, but he will find ways to manage," she reassured the young girl before she turned to face Danny again. "Now, getting back to the matter at hand," she addressed him, sounding serious once more. "I would very much like to take Freakshow into custody," she explained her intensions. "Where exactly has he gone?" she asked as she began to look around the clearing.

"To put it bluntly, ma'am," Danny began, sounding quite nervous, and hoping that she would accept what he was about to tell her. "He's not with us anymore," he admitted.

"You mean he got away?" she asked, sounding a bit horrified that such a dangerous man had gotten away from them.

"No," Danny responded quickly, putting her at ease. "He didn't survive, is what I meant," he corrected what he'd said a moment ago.

"He was kind of blown to smithereens," Danielle reiterated. "Nothing but a pile of ashes now," she answered admittedly whilst shrugging her shoulders.

"Hmm, too bad," Dr. Director sighed. "I'd have hoped he'd be able to answer for his crimes," she said as she folded her hands behind her back. "But I suppose he did, in the end," she relented. "What of the gauntlet though?" she asked. "Has it been retrieved?" she asked, further concerning its fate.

"It was," Danny again admitted, but sounded like he was still hiding something from her.

"It was destroyed too, wasn't it?" Dr. Director asked, her one eye scowling.

"Yeah, but not before we were able to use it to restore our friends back to life, and fix the damages to reality that Freakshow caused," Danny explained. "It had been severely damaged during the fight, so after a couple of uses, it fell to pieces on us," he explained to her. "Now only the gems remain," he informed her as he held up his hand and opened it to reveal the four gems in the palm of his gloved hand. Apparently at some point, he'd picked them up off the ground.

"Are they a threat without the gauntlet?" she asked curiously after having bent over to examine them more closely.

"Together? No," he answered her. "But they can still be used individually," he warned. "We will need a way in which to safely contain them so their individual powers can't be used accidentally."

"Well, if I'm not mistaken, you could probably use the thermos contained within the transistor, can't you?" Dr. Director asked with a quirked eyebrow, almost knowingly. "After all, they are designed to contain ghosts and hold back their powers. I would imagine the same principle can be applied to the gems?" she again asked, this time with a smirk.

"You know, that's not a bad idea," Danny acknowledged before raising his arm with the transistor attached and pressed the blue button on the side of the watch-like device.

The screen suddenly split in half with each half retreating under the metal panels of the watch, revealing a small clamp with what appeared to be a tube of chap-stick. Upon grasping the 'tube of chap-stick' in his hand, it began to grow until it fully resembled a Fenton Thermos. Upon removal of the lid, he promptly dumped the four gems within.

As he was screwing the lid back on to safely lock the gems within, he managed to catch an angry glare from Danielle. "What?" he asked her, shrugging his shoulders, clearing not understanding what she had to be upset about.

"My lord, sometimes I cannot believe I was cloned from such a clueless moron like you," she grumbled with frustration as she pinched the bridge of her nose between her fingers. "How did she find out about the transistor's thermos feature!?" she shouted at him. Danny pondered on her question for a moment before his eyes widened in surprise. Indeed, they hadn't told anyone that he knew of; so how could she have possibly known? The two of them and Cujo all began to scowl at Dr. Director when she began to chuckle with amusement.

"Global Justice had eyes and ears everywhere," she informed the two teens, almost matter-of-factly. "GO Tower, Drakken's Lab, his hover car, Bueno Nacho, Kimberly's home, her car and the Kimmunicator, even Wade's computer; the list goes on," she informed them. "Though, cracking your friend's high-tech PDA and gaining access to the hard-drive, and all the information that's stored on it, was certainly no easy task," she admitted before she turned and started to walk back towards the flying vehicle she had arrived in; indicating to the teens and ghost dog that it was time they headed back to Middleton. "There are no limits to how far we will go in order to ensure the security of this world, or the next," she spoke to them without looking back. "We know everything, Daniel," she informed them, though she spoke more directly to Danny before she paused in mid-step. "Whether you're an enemy or ally alike," she began to say before she looked back over her shoulder so they could clearly see her one eye staring back at them, intently; "I will always have my eye on you."

The siblings shared a somewhat distrustful glance with each other before they began to follow her, and the others, back to the flying vehicle so they could be brought back to Middleton.

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In the Middleton Medical Center's atrium, Mrs. Dr. Possible happily chatted away with a receptionist sitting behind an information desk. She held a mug of steaming coffee in her hands as the rays of morning sunshine lit up the foyer with its brilliance. Clearly she didn't seem too worried that her daughter and new friends had been out all night, lord only knew in what kind of condition they were in, considering they'd been fighting with a madman that was holding the entire world hostage.

"So you think the kids did all right?" the receptionist asked, taking a sip from her own coffee mug.

"The man they were fighting had the power to change the reality of our world," KP's mother answered as she stared down into her coffee cup. "I'm sure they did fine," she said, trying to reassure herself more than her coworker. "I mean, I don't see any changes to the world around us," she said, waving her hand around, indicating that everything was still the same as it'd always been. "So they must have been successful," she said with a cheery smile as she brushed it off with a wave of her hand.

"But, if the reality of our world was changed, then wouldn't our perception of it have changed with it?" the receptionist asked curiously as she set her coffee on the desk and interlaced her fingers.

This gave KP's mother a reason to pause and think. As she was contemplating this, the main entrance doors could be heard opening behind her. "Well, the kids did say they would stop by afterwards to help reassure us that things hadn't changed," she replied, dodging the question entirely.

"Well then, I guess we got nothing to worry about," the receptionist replied with a smile as she looked passed the doctor at the visitors that had entered the building.

Mrs. Dr. Possible turned around and smiled upon seeing a familiar group of teenagers rushing in. "Hello kids," she greeted them with a warm smile. "You all came back, so I guess that's good," she said, noticing the teens from the other universe first; Danny had since returned back to his human form by now. It was then that she noticed the demoralized looks in their eyes. "Did everything go alright out there?" she asked, growing worried. "Was anybody hurt?" she quickly began to panic.

"Well, we had a few casualties, but everyone's alive now," Jazz answered, rubbing the back of her head nervously.

"Kim will need some help though," Danny continued as he looked off to the side.

Confused, KP's mother turned her gaze onto KM who only shook her head. "The other Kim," she informed the doctor.

"My Kimmie Cub?" she asked, her worry returning again. "What happened?" she asked, practically begging to know.

All of the teens stood aside to reveal KP's ghost form standing behind them, having been hidden so her mother couldn't see her. She was still holding her human form; still staring off into space with a traumatized look in her eyes.

"The trauma she suffered from having our two halves forcibly separated has left her in an unresponsive, vegetative state," KP's ghost form answered her mother shamefully. "She's been rendered completely catatonic," she ultimately concluded.

Stunned and horrified by this news, KP's mother dropped her mug of coffee, causing it to shatter and splash all over the floor at her feet.

---

KP's human form lay in a hospital bed, the back of the bed propped up so she was sitting up in the bed. She still had a traumatized look in her eyes as she stared ahead into oblivion. She wasn't distracted in the slightest by the change of clothes into a hospital gown or the IV stand that sat next to her bed; several different IV bags hanging from the hooks and feeding into a pair of needles taped to her arms. She also seemed completely oblivious to the crowd of people that had gathered in the hospital room.

Monique and Ron sat in chairs on either side of her; Ron with his hands in his lap while he looked down at the floor and Monique leaning onto the hospital bed with her head resting on her crossed arms. Rufus sat on Ron's shoulder, leaning his back against the teen's head as he snored in his sleep. Every now and then, Monique would open her eyes and close them again in order to prevent herself from falling asleep.

"Look, I know we're both worried for her, but how is it that you're not tired?" she asked Ron groggily as she glared at him from across the bed; dark circles forming around her eyes.

"I don't know," Ron replied as he shook his head and shrugged his shoulders. "Maybe being dead for a short amount of time gave my body time to rest?" he suggested as a potential possibility for why he wasn't tired, despite the fact that they'd all been awake the entire night.

He wasn't the only one. Jazz and the other Kim were well awake as well, likely for the same reason Ron didn't feel exhausted. They too had died and been revived. They both sat in chairs of their own behind Ron, but kept themselves occupied whilst the others had a discussion at the front of the room. At the moment, Kim was helping Jazz rewrap a piece of cloth around her casted arm in order to help keep it from moving around too much. At some point during the previous night, the holder had come undone and was no longer serving in cradling her broken arm; so they were improvising until they could get another. Shouldn't have been too long of a wait, they were in a hospital after all.

"Mhmm," Monique grumbled in response to Ron's suggestion for his alertness as she closed her eyes again, trying to get a moments rest without actually falling asleep. She wanted to at least be somewhat aware of the conversation the others were having.

Next to her, Danielle, still wearing a tattered t-shirt and shorts, sat in another chair whilst also resting her head in her arms. She too seemed quite exhausted, like the older teen next to her; but she was determined to stay awake until the others had finished discussing things. In short, her motivation for delaying sleep was no different than Monique's. Cujo was even curled up and sleeping soundlessly at the foot of KP's hospital bed.

Danny stood next to his younger sister at the foot of the hospital bed with his arms folded as he looked down at KP's human form lying in her bed. He looked to his side at Wade, KP's ghost form and Dr. Director and decided to join in on their conversation when they began discussing options on how to help their friends get back home to their own universe. Now that KP's human form was in the hospital, and receiving treatment for her trauma, they could focus on other matters at hand.

"So without the use of the Reality Gauntlet, the reality gems can't be used to open a portal to send them home," Wade finished explaining the situation to Dr. Director who held her chin with her fingers in deep thought.

"Hmm," Dr. Director hummed as she thought. "The united power of the reality gems might no longer be at our disposal; but opening a portal to their home dimension might still be possible by means of another method," she began to theorize.

"You have the capability to open up a portal for us to get home?" Danny asked, cocking an eyebrow.

"Not just a portal," Dr. Director replied as she lowered her hand from her chin and directed her attention at him. "But a Pan-Dimensional Vortex," she declared with a smirk.

Danny's and Danielle's eyes widened at this newest development. They could hardly believe that something could possibly exist here that could get them home that easily. Their newfound hopes were quickly dashed though.

"Dr. Director, NO!" KP protested harshly as she scowled angrily at the older woman. "It's far too risky! I'm not putting slim chances on such a highly dangerous experiment that may or may not even work!" she proclaimed, putting her foot down.

"Now hold on, Kim," Danny urged her as he put a hand on her shoulder and turned her so she was facing him. "If there's a chance of getting us home, then I'm going for it," he declared, just as firmly.

"Danny, you don't get it!" she half-shouted as she brushed his hand off her shoulder. "The Pan-Dimensional Vortex Inducer has never been used successfully," she warned him. "Not only are the chances of failure so incredibly high that I would outright refuse to use it; but the resulting disaster would be far worse than we could ever hope to contain, even with the full power of a working Reality Gauntlet," she warned him.

"What kind of disaster are we talking about here?" he asked, curiously, hoping to get to the bottom of why she was so against this plan.

"If the plan failed, we'd open up a black hole large enough to wipe out the entire state," Wade warned him, also looking at him glumly. Clearly, he agreed with KP. He was totally against it. "Besides, even if it did work, by some miracle, we'd have no way of calibrating it to take you to any specific dimension," he further warned him. "You could end up in an entirely different world. You'd run the risk of never getting home if that happened."

"Our enemies have stolen it twice already," Kim informed him, her temper cooled slightly. "Fortunately, both times, we got lucky, and nothing happened other than us getting trapped in TV land for a short period of time," she explained. "If this plan failed, and it very likely would, and we went black hole; we're talking about deaths upwards of several million," she warned him. "You just risked not going home so that you could restore my world to the way it was, and keep its people safe. Could you really live with risking that many lives just to go home after risking your own to protect them?" she asked him, reminding him of all that was at stake here.

"Hmm, yeah, I guess I do see your point," Danny grumbled with disappointment as he refolded his arms across his chest and stared at the floor. "Those are some terrible odds."

"I can have our scientist friend's over in Colorado on the phone in a matter of minutes," Dr. Director informed the teens. "I'm sure they'd be ecstatic about giving the PDVI its first official test run," Dr. Director added with a slight frown, hoping to make them reconsider, though by now, it was clear that her initial idea had been officially scrapped.

"No," Danny declined her offer, shaking his head as he did before he looked her in the eye. "Kim's point is valid enough to make me reconsider. It's far too risky. We'll have to find another way," he declared sternly.

"Very well then," Dr. Director sighed in defeat as she glanced away shamelessly for having even considered something so reckless in the first place. "At the very least, we can still call in some favors to a few scientists that we know. Perhaps their collective genius might be enough to help us solve this dilemma," she suggested before she turned her full attention back to KP's ghost form. "In the meantime, I feel I should offer you my sympathy," she said to the blue-haired ghost girl. "Is there any chance of a recovery?" she asked, turning her head and glancing at KP's human form in the hospital bed, still looking into oblivion with a traumatized look in her eyes.

"My mom ran a quick brain scan on her and found almost no brain activity," KP's ghost form answered her. "It's as we feared; I've retained my entire mental capacity, leaving her nothing more than a shell of her former self," she concluded with a sigh of regret.

"Hmm, I'm curious, Kimberly," Dr. Director said, turning back to the ghost teen. "Why is it that you're speaking of your human form in the third person, rather than the first?" she asked her, one of her eyebrows raised. "Is she not still you?"

"You know, it's strange," KP began to ponder to herself as she went into thought. "I know for certain that we are in fact the same person; but when I see her, and I think about what happened, I can't help but feel that it's not me lying in that hospital bed," she said as she looked at her human form in the aforementioned hospital bed. "I can't quite explain it, really," she sighed.

"It's a side-effect of your two halves being improperly separated," Danny informed her, almost matter-of-factly. They both glanced at him with some surprise as he continued. "If it had been done correctly, every aspect of your personality would have been divided between your two halves, rather than one of you retaining everything," he explained.

"And how exactly is it that you know that?" KP asked him, confused as to how he would know what it was like to have two halves of himself separated.

"It's happened to him before," Jazz answered, not even bothering to look up as KM continued working on refastening her friend's broken arm back into a sling. "A device that our parents invented separated him into what Tucker described as "Fun" Danny and "Super" Danny," she went on to explain.

"My human form was a laid back slacker and was only concerned with enjoying himself by hanging out with his friends," Danny explained to them with a chuckle as he looked back on fond memories. "My ghost form went full-blown super hero, with a cape and everything. Ah, good times," he sighed with a smile.

"Ah, yes, the Fenton Ghost Catcher," Dr. Director proclaimed, again going into deep thought as she held her chin with her fingers. "A device intended to separate beings composed of ecto-plasmic energy from objects, and even people," she said, mostly to herself, though much to Danny's annoyance.

"You have got to see about having Tucker install new security on that PDA," Jazz informed her friend, knowing full well that the hack that had been done on it was the reason Dr. Director had known about the ghost hunting device in the first place.

"And be stuck with a firewall that he knows how to hack through?" she asked, wondering if her friend was actually being serious. "No, I think I'll have my dad, or brother, see what they can do about the security features," she counter-suggested after throwing out the possibility of using Tucker's techno-genius skills in favor of someone she trusted a bit more.

"If it's happened to you before, then, how exactly did you merge your two halves back together?" KP asked, hope for herself slowly beginning to be rekindled.

"The Ghost Catcher has two sides; separate and merge," Dr. Director explained to the girl. "I would imagine that passing you and your human form through the "merge" side might fix your problem," she speculated.

"Would you knock that off!" Danny scolded her with a frustrated glare. "Seriously, how much info on us did you manage to gather off Kim's PDA?" he asked her.

"I'm not at liberty to discuss that information; but if you wish for me to stop, then I will begrudgingly do so," Dr. Director explained, complying with him as she began to examine her fingernails out of boredom.

"Would it really be that simple?" KP asked of Danny, drawing his attention away from Dr. Director's sleuthing of Kim's PDA for information. "Could we use this device to merge me back with my human form?" she asked, grasping at straws for any chance of fixing the problem.

"Sure," Danny agreed, nodding his head in approval. "But we would need a way of getting back home so that we could retrieve it," he reminded her. "And even then, we'd still need to clean up the mess that Plasmius' certainly been causing in our world before we can come back to fix your problem," he continued to pile on the complications that were hindering their plans. "And knowing Vlad, it won't be a picnic, or a simple walk in the park; he's gunna be expecting us. That's how he works, he's always one step ahead of us. It could be awhile before we can return to help you merge back with your human form," he warned her. "And by then, it might be too late anyway," he continued, shaking his head. "Ghosts and Humans were never meant to merge, so the Ghost Catcher might not even work if too much time has passed. When it happened to me, and my halves were split, we remerged after only a couple days. With the business with Plasmius we gotta contend with, it could end up being a lot longer than that before we could return."

"What if I went back with you and helped out?" KP asked.

"You'd really be willing to do that?" Danny asked, quite perplexed that she would offer up her services to help them back in their universe.

"Sure," she responded with a shrug of her shoulders. "After all, it's the least I could do after everything you've done for us here already. And besides, if this Vlad guy is gunna be as tough as you expect him to be, then having a third hybrid that he's not aware of might be to your advantage," she said with a quirked eyebrow and a cocky grin. "You might be done in half the time than if you went at it alone," she continued, trying to sell her idea to the younger teen hybrid.

"Alright, alright, you're hired," Danny relented as he put up his hands between them. "So long as you are fully aware of the danger you're volunteering for," he went back to being serious with her. "We're taking some serious risks here, it's a huge gamble."

"I've wrestled with sharks, and other dangerous sea and land creatures, with my bare hands; I've been locked in a box, with holes in it, tossed under water that was frozen over, and escaped; I've been in hand to hand combat with some of the most notorious criminals on the planet, and I've babysat my little brothers on several occasions," KP continued to sell herself with a cocky grin as she folded her arms. "Danger is practically my middle name," she said with proud confidence in her abilities. "And this was all before the ghost powers," she reminded him to boot.

"Well then, I guess we shouldn't have too much to worry about," Danny said with a grin as he unfolded his arms and put his hands at his waist.

"Yeah, great, we have someone volunteering to help us with our problem," KM mocked interest before she finally finished with Jazz's make-shift sling and turned to face them. "But we are still left with the dilemma of how to get home!" she reminded them. "Everything rides on our ability to cross the dimensional barrier. And without something capable of opening a dimensional portal for us, we are as good as stuck here!"

"What if instead of using a dimensional portal to take us straight home, why don't we make a ghost portal and go through the ghost zone to get home?" Danielle suggested, glancing around at everyone from her perch on KP's bedside.

The room fell silent for a moment as everyone pondered her theory.

"That seems a bit roundabout to what we'd been considering," Danny pondered to himself before he started grinning. "But I don't see any reason for why that couldn't work," he praised her for her practically ingenious idea.

"I may be cloned from you, but my brains all from mom," she responded before her head fell back onto the bed where she began to rest her eyes.

"Great minds and strong intellect run deep in the women of our family," Jazz informed her as she looked over the sling for her arm.

"Can this world even access the Ghost Zone?" KM again spoke up. "I really don't mean to throw up these hurdles; I really wanna go home too; but if we can't get to the Ghost Zone from here, we're still dead in the water," she reminded all of them. "Everything still hinges on our ability to make our own portal."

This revelation seemed to further dampen the mood of everyone in the room, with the exception of Dr. Director who still seemed to be fighting off boredom; she was now fiddling with the blinds to the window; and Danny who seemed to have gone back into thought.

"Make my own portal," he whispered to himself as he pondered what KM had said. "I wonder," he thought out loud as he glanced off to the side. With this last thought, he went ghost, drawing the attention of almost everyone in the room; KP's human form was still comatose.

"What are you doing?" Danielle asked him with curiosity and worry at what he was doing as he raised one of his arms with his palm facing away against the far wall.

His hand began glowing with green energy as he took several deep breathes and closed his eyes so that he could concentrate. He slowly released the energy as it began to swirl and condense in front of his hand. Everyone watched with awe and wonder as the now swirling disk of energy took on the appearance of a gaseous vortex with what appeared to be an entirely different world on the other side. By this point, Danny was straining himself, being just barely able to maintain the mouse-hole sized portal before his energy gave out. His arm dropped back to his side as he involuntarily transformed back into his human form. The miniature self-made portal quickly vanished before anything could pass through.

"You can make your own portals with your energy too!?" KP half-shouted in amazement. "Why didn't you try doing that before?" she asked. If he could have done that right from the start, then there would have been no worries on how they were gunna get home.

Danny was panting heavily as he tried to catch his breath after exerting himself the way that he did. "I've never tried doing that before," he continued to pant. "I didn't even know if I could do it," he added. "It took way too much out of me just too even get that miniscule result. Its gunna take months of training before I can produce one large enough and sustain it long enough for us to get through," he sighed, almost in defeat.

"Yeah, but on the bright side, at least it proves that we can get to the Ghost Zone," Wade said to brighten the mood in the room. "Now we just need to figure out how to make one large enough for you all to fit through without it closing up before you do," he said before he began contemplating once more.

"If I could offer a suggestion," Jazz spoke up. "But if the Ghost Zone is indeed accessible from here, and you can't make your own, then perhaps we could use one of those naturally occurring portals that were so popular amongst you guys last year?" she suggested, asking Danny directly, remembering back to how he, Sam and Tucker were using them to frequently get from one place to another, within and outside the Ghost Zone itself.

"There's naturally occurring portals now too?" KP asked, cocking her eyebrow at Danny again, again thinking why he hadn't thought to bring them up himself, let alone considered using one of them.

"Mhmm," Danny confirmed with a nod. "They open and close randomly, and are hard to spot if you're not looking for them," he informed her. "They can occur almost anywhere. You might've heard of one of the more famous ones, at least in our world. The Bermuda Triangle ring any bells?" he asked her curiously.

"You're telling me the Bermuda Triangle is a naturally occurring ghost portal?" Monique asked, sounding almost skeptical as she leaned up from her perch on KP's human form's hospital bed. She was still listening intently to their conversation whilst warding off sleep.

"That would make sense, what with all of the disappearances over the years," Wade interjected, seeing the logic in it.

"Unfortunately, the natural portals are also a no go," Danny informed them before anyone became too excited. "Without the use of the Infi-map, we have no way of knowing when or where one will appear," he informed the group, reminding his sisters and the other Kim. "Let alone what time period they'd end up taking us too," he added pointedly.

"Infi-map?" KP asked, sounding confused once more. "Time periods?" growing quite perplexed by all that she was being told.

"A map of the Ghost Zone," Danny answered her first question rather simply. "And yes," he confirmed her second question. "Natural portals aren't just gates to the Ghost Zone, but they can also take you to different time periods. Go through one of those, and you could end up as far back as the time of the dinosaurs, or as far forward as to see the death of our sun," he explained. "They are dangerous to pass through, and you can become trapped if they close up behind you. Some will remain on this time-plane, but I'd rather not risk that," he said, shaking his head in disapproval. "We need to get to the correct time in our world, not the distant past or far off future."

Once more, silence filled the room before Wade broke it. "Well then, I guess we're left with only one option." When he didn't continue right away, everyone looked to him for clarification. "We'll just have to build our own ghost portal, like the one your parent's made that gave you your powers," he said, shrugging his shoulders, glancing around at them like it should have been obvious to them.

"Well, you guys certainly have the technical knowhow, and the advanced technology and resources, to pull it off," Danny said with a forced smile. "But without proper blueprints, or instructions on its construction, you guys might never be able to build one," he sighed, his forced smile fading after he shot down yet another idea.

Dr. Director grumbled with disappointment as she dropped her hand away from the window blinds, allowing them to clatter shut, shaking her head. "You can never seem to remember the important things, Mr. Fenton," she sighed before she turned to face him.

"What?" he asked her with a scowl, clearing showing he was growing agitated by her thinking she knew so much about them just because her secret organization managed to hack into his friend's PDA.

"No, no; I wouldn't want to intrude," she reassured them as she threw her hands up in surrender and turned her head away. "I'm sure if it were an emergency, you'd have figured it out on your own by now," she informed him as she lowered her arms and folded them across her chest. "Can't really blame you for forgetting about it though," she said in a more hushed tone, like she were speaking more to herself than them. "After all, my sources tell me it's been over a month?" she posed the question with a sly grin.

"A month?" Danny asked, a bit confused as he went into thought, trying to remember back to something that he may have heard someone say that might have been important.

"Wait a minute," Danielle said, perking up from her spot on the edge of the hospital bed. "Kim," she called out to the older girl sitting across from her next to Jazz. "Didn't your dad say that the transistor contained blueprints of several of our parent's inventions?" she asked the older girl. "You know; weapons, ghost hunting equipment-" she began to clarify before Danny finally caught on.

"A ghost portal," he interjected with some surprise over not remembering something so crucial himself. Raising his arm, he pressed the small metal panel at the top of the transistor's screen. The screen popped up onto its side and rose about an inch before growing outwards, stretching until it was about a foot and a half across. Activating the data files that cataloged several different types of devices his parent's had invented, he eventually came to a file that he was looking for. "Guys," he said, turning to his sister's and Kim, "Looks like we're going home," he said with a confident grin.

"Finally!" KM sighed with great relief as she leaned back in her chair, her head hanging backwards over it.

"If you knew these files were on here before, then how come you never brought them up before?" Danny asked of Dr. Director, no longer seeming angry, or frustrated, with her.

"You seemed quite distrustful of me over my apparent surplus of knowledge on you and your friends," she answered honestly, with a disappointed frown. "So I figured I'd let you figure it out on your own; with a slight nudge in the right direction, of course," she admitted, her own confident grin returning.

"I can't believe it's all here," Danny said to himself with wonder as he scrolled through ghost portal blueprints. "All the building materials required, tools necessary, directions on the proper construction techniques, its entire layout…" he continued to say before he stopped short and began to ponder something as he held his chin between his fingers.

"We had a much more difficult time trying to hack into that nifty little device, with absolutely no success to show for it," Dr. Director admitted, ignoring Danny's mutterings and sudden thoughtful realization. "I would highly recommend wirelessly transferring the blueprint data to your friend's PDA so we can get this operation of ours underway," she suggested before she turned and started to make her way towards the door. "After that, we'll call in the brightest minds of the scientific community to see how quickly we can get this thing built."

The mentioning of having the blueprint data transferred to her PDA so Global Justice would have access to it only served to make KM sigh with regret and disappointment. "I seriously need to run some kind of virus scan on this thing," she grumbled to herself as she held up her PDA and examined the screen.

"Probably wouldn't turn up with anything relevant," Wade warned her with a grin of his own.

"Dr. Director," Danny called out to the older woman; who was currently standing in the doorway with her hand on the door handle; after looking up from the transistor's screen, which was currently showing an image of an inactive ghost portal. "May I suggest that you have it constructed exactly as the blueprints specify?" he requested of her, earning several confused looks from everyone in the room capable of registering what was going on. "No improvements, no changes to the design, exactly as it looks in the blueprints?" he further explained, though his reasoning was still unclear for the moment.

Dr. Director only looked at him with a surprised look in her one eye before she smiled and nodded her consent before she turned and exited the room, closing the door behind her.

"What was that all about?" KP asked of him after Dr. Director had vacated the room. "You afraid any changes they make might result in it not working or something?" she asked, trying to guess at his motives.

"No, just a hunch that I'm feeling," he answered her with a grin, all without taking his eyes off the door. "I've got a plan brewing," he informed her, and likewise the group as a whole.

"A plan for what?" Wade asked, not quite getting what was going on inside his head.

"You'll see," Danny again answered, his grin widening into a confident smirk.

---

Within only a day and a half, the new ghost portal was, amazingly enough, almost complete. With dozens of scientists and Global Justice agents working together, they had managed to pull together enough resources to accomplish what would have taken several days, minimum, for the Fenton's back home. Working like tireless army ants, the engineers soldered wires and metal panels into place on the outside of the nearly completed ghost portal. Standing back a ways, Mr. Dr. Possible directed the others as he glanced from the unfinished portal to the blueprints in his hands.

"Hmm, that doesn't look right," he mumbled to himself in confusion as he scratched the side of his head with his index finger, releasing the blueprints from that hand, and allowing it to fall and hang loosely from his other hand. "That seems like it could be a serious design flaw," he continued muttering as he tilted his head whilst squinting at the unfinished portal.

"Gentlemen!" he called out to a pair of his colleagues that were busying themselves with several color coated wires. "I think we may have a bit of a problem on our hands here," he informed them as he went back to closely examining the blueprints. "A potentially fatal one at that," he warned them. "These blueprints show the on/off switch as being inside the machine," he pointed out to the two men. "These blueprints are clearly faulty; why wasn't this fixed when it was being designed?" he questioned them accusingly.

"Hey, don't look at us," Professor Chen, a taller scientist of Asian descent with glasses calmed him. "This isn't even our field of study," he reminded his fellow scientist.

"Yeah, Drew was the one who installed it, even after we brought up our own concerns about it," Professor Ramesh, a shorter scientist of Indian descent with a receding hairline shifted the blame as he pointed a finger at the culprit.

"I deny any fault here," Dr. Drakken defended himself with a glare after flipping up a welding mask. He'd been welding metal plates together along the outside edges of the portal. "I was just following the directions in the blueprints," he explained, pointing at the blueprints in question, still in Mr. Dr. Possible's hands. "And according to it, that accursed switch is supposed to be on the inside," he half-shouted his irritation over being falsely accused of doing something wrong.

"Whomever goes to turn this thing on is very likely to be infected with ecto-plasm," Mr. Dr. Possible warned him harshly. "We're talking potential mutations here. That's a serious health violation."

"I know it's not the most ideal location," Dr. Drakken continued to defend himself, this time trying to level with them. "And the blueprints were clearly drawn up by a buffoon," he added. "But the Fenton Kid requested that we build this thing exactly as the blueprints specify; hazards and all," he concluded.

"I'm pretty sure he wasn't taking into consideration the potential life-threatening hazards," Mr. Dr. Possible scolded once more, giving the blue, former villain another irritated scowl. "This should have been addressed," he grumbled as he went back to looking at the portal's designs.

"And it was specifically requested of us to design the portal to the exact specifications," a woman's voice called out to him.

All four men went wide eyed with surprise upon hearing the woman's voice. Dr. Drakken even eeped sheepishly and gulped nervously before flipping down his welding mask and continued his work outside the portal. The other two went about sorting different colored wires as Mr. Dr. Possible glanced to his side as Dr. Director came up beside him with her arms folded behind her back.

"Welcome, Betty," he greeted her after his initial surprise of her arrival had worn off. "It's certainly a pleasure having you here; although, earlier than expected?" he questioned her.

"Just wanted to check on things," she reassured him without taking her one eye off the unfinished Ghost Portal. "How's it coming along?" she asked, expecting to hear a good ETA. "Pending hazards aside," she added, quirking her eyebrow, not wanting to hear another word about the accursed on/off switch.

"Faster than expected actually," he answered with a grin. "We're expecting to be finished before nightfall," he reassured her.

"Good to hear," she replied, quite satisfied with such a quick and positive answer. "Our new friends are growing quite anxious to get going," she informed the scientist.

"I would imagine," he chuckled. "They've been stuck here for a week now," he laminated before a concerned look spread across his face. "If I may, can I ask you a question about the portal?" he asked, requesting permission to ask a question that could possibly be classified, but human curiosity has ensnared him.

"Is it about the on/off switch?" Dr. Director asked, her one eye half-closing out of frustration.

"No, but there is something else about the portal that concerns me," he reassured her before he glanced at her out of the side of his vision. "Why are we building it here, at the Middleton Space Center, rather than Global Justice HQ?" he asked of her. "Shouldn't something of this importance be kept in a more secretive location?" he further addressed his concerns.

Dr. Director chuckled with amusement over his curious concerns. "Officially, it is being constructed there," she answered his main concern. "However, it is actually being built here as our enemies will be less likely to find it should they ever discover its existence," she informed him. "That, and it will require a large power source to run it; and as you run off the grid, the abnormal power surges that will accompany it won't be so easily discovered and exploited," she further explained.

"Hmm, those are all very valid points you make," he said with a smirk, approving of her answers to his concerns.

"We try to plan ahead that way," she informed him as she turned to walk away. "Although, if I had to pin a third reason onto why we're building it here; it's so that Global Justice HQ doesn't go BOOM on the off chance that the Ecto-filtrator isn't replaced every few months," she chuckled with an ominous grin as she began walking away, leaving behind a now bothered Mr. Dr. Possible to contemplate the dangerous repercussions of not maintaining such a dangerous piece of technology on a regular basis.

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A short time later, the last rays of sunlight were shining through the glass windows of the Space Center's main lobby. It was the day after our teen heroes had defeated Freakshow, and now they were all preparing to either head home, or say goodbye, as the newly constructed Ghost Portal was supposedly completed after only a day and a half. Currently, everyone had gathered in the Space Center's lobby as they waited to be escorted back to the portal. The teens apparently weren't trusted enough to not go running off on their own again after their last excursion here a week previously.

"Is that everything?" Jazz asked, glancing back over her shoulder as KM stuffed items into a backpack she was wearing.

"Just about," KM answered after folding up her graduation gown and shoved it into Jazz's backpack. "Grad gown, Full Fenton Thermos, Boomerang," she listed off the equipment they'd brought with them as she found homes for them in the backpack.

The Fenton Thermos they had still contained the Ecto-Vultures and the Giant Ecto-Puss. They couldn't risk those ghosts escaping just yet, so it needed to be kept safe a bit longer. The original Boomerang had also followed them to this Universe before the portal closed behind it; it had been kept around, hence why they still had it with them.

"Your Fenton Peeler, which is too damaged to be of any use other than as a regular blaster," KM continued listing off equipment as she packed Jazz's backpack. As she tried putting the Fenton Peeler into the bag, it suddenly went off, sending a random ecto-blast off somewhere. "Make that a defective blaster," she growled with frustration as she flipped open a small panel on the bottom and plucked out what appeared to be some kind of micro-chip that acted as the power source. She shoved it into her pocket before shoving the now inactive Fenton Peeler into the backpack before zipping it up.

With all of their equipment packed away, Jazz came up beside her brother. "I won't be as much help once we get back," she reminded him, quickly glancing down at her broken arm hanging in a sling. "I won't be able to fight, but I'm sure I'll be able to help in other ways."

"We can figure all of that out after we get home," he reassured her, not taking his eyes off of something else that had his attention. "Besides, with the extra bit of pep in her step," he said, nodding towards Danielle, "we just might manage," he concluded with a smirk.

Jazz followed his gaze to a newly dressed Danielle. Her old clothes had been in complete tatters, so she had been given replacements that somewhat suited her own style; at least until she got home and could swap clothes with her own. She still wore cargo shorts, but they were a dark khaki color rather than her usual red. Her torn t-shirt was replaced with a red shirt with long white sleeves, though, the sleeves couldn't be seen as she wore an open green button-up shirt over it. She'd even been given a red ball cap that she wore backwards, allowing her newly tied ponytail to hang out below the caps visor.

She half spun and looked herself over with scrutiny as Tim and Jim Possible stood off to the side, equally scrutinizing their own clothes that she'd been dressed in.

"I'm not sure dressing in both of our clothes was the right move anymore," Tim grumbled to his brother as he shook his head in disappointment.

"She looks like some kind of Christmas Ornament," Jim grumbled in agreement as he shook his head in disappointment with his brother.

"Hey, at least it's better than that skirt getup that Monique tried dressing me up in," Danielle said with a reluctant sigh before she turned to face the twins. "Not too fond of the outer shirt layer either, but it'll do until I get home, at the very least," she reassured them before she smirked. "Hicka-bicka-boo?" she said, quoting their most famous line. Apparently she'd picked it up from them at some point over the last day.

The Tweebs glanced at one another before they too smirk mischievously. "Hoo-sha!" they replied in unison as she and Tim slapped hands in some bizarre handshake ritual before they clasped their grips around the others forearm and held tight whilst smirking at each other with cheeky grins.

"Well, at least the three of them have been getting along," Wade commented from off to the side where he, Ron and KP's ghost form stood next to her wheelchair bound human form being pushed by Monique. KP's mother was kneeling in front of her still traumatized daughter as she brushed her hair, eliciting no reaction out of her.

"I thought that skirt was cute on her," Monique grumbled to herself in irritation as she glanced off to the side.

"Well, you were warned well beforehand that she wouldn't go for it," KP's ghost form reminded her. "You're lucky you got her to try it on at all," she further taunted her friend.

"Kimberly," her mother called, gaining her attention. She was frowning up at her daughter's ghost half as she continued to kneel in front of her traumatized human half. Looking up at her daughter's ghost half, she was quite concerned. "What do you have planned that requires your other half?" she asked as she looked at the traumatized girl. "We're taking a huge risk bringing her out of the hospital so soon," she voiced her concerns.

"I don't know what Danny has planned, Mom," KP answered with a frown, revealing that she too wasn't without her own concerns. "But I trust Danny's judgement, and if he's got a plan that involves her, then it could only be helpful for her condition. He'd never intentionally do anything that would harm her in any way," she reassured her mother. "He protected her from Freakshow after all," she reminded her mother.

Everyone was distracted by their individual conversations when a side door was opened and Mr. Dr. Possible poked his head through. His gaze fell over the teens before he addressed the group as a whole. "We're ready for everyone in here, if you're ready," he informed them before they all began gathering themselves.

"Well, you ready?" Danny asked, smiling down at Danielle as she smirked back up at him with a gleam in her eyes.

"We snuck a peek at the portal they were building a little while ago," Tim exclaimed excitedly as he came up beside the ghost girl.

"Yeah, it was one of the coolest things we've ever seen," Jim exclaimed just as excitedly, coming up on Danielle's other side.

"Common, you've gotta come see it too," Tim exclaimed urgently as he grabbed her by one of her arms.

"Before they activate it," Jim also exclaimed urgently as he grabbed her by her other arm.

"Uh, guys, my parents invented it. I'm quite familiar with what an inactive ghost portal looks like!" she began to shriek as she was pulled along by the twins through the door their father had appeared through.

"Hmm, guess she's got some admirers," Jazz chuckled in amusement, much to Danny's discomfort as he squinted after the two boys that had literally dragged his younger cloned sister off. He knew she wasn't in any danger with them, but it was the principle of things; he was her older brother after all.

"Let's just go home," Danny grumbled before he and the two girls followed after them with the others trailing behind them.

"So, you think that whatever plan he's got in mind will actually work?" Ron asked of Wade and KP's ghost form as Monique and KP's mother pushed KP's human form's wheelchair through the door ahead of them.

"I don't even know what he has planned for her," KP answered somberly as she set her eyes on the back of her human halves head. "But he must have some idea of what he's doing if he's acting as confident as he is; so I'm gunna go along with whatever he's got planned," she explained her reasoning.

Upon entering the room where the ghost portal had been constructed, all eyes widened with surprise. "Whoa!" Jazz, KM and Danielle ohhed and ahhed upon seeing the inactive ghost portal for themselves.

Even Danny whistled in admiration before he tilted his head and cocked an eyebrow, all with a grin. "A little bit bigger than the one my parents built," he chuckled, all with good humor.

A wide shot of the teens standing in front of the portal revealed that it was almost twice as big as the original Fenton Portal, standing at nearly fifteen feet tall.

"We didn't change a thing, as per your request," KP's father explained, a little confused by the teen's surprise. He even had the blueprints rolled up under one of his arms. He handed them over to Danny who began looking them over almost immediately. "We did have a couple concerns about something important," he pointed out to the teen.

"Yeah, the on/off switch, I'm guessing?" Danny asked with a smirk as he briefly glanced up at the older man before his gaze returned to the blueprints in hand. "That's exactly the reason I requested the designs be followed exactly. Though, I'm not sure why this one is bigger than the one back home," he inquired, more to himself though as he looked over the blueprints.

"How old are these plans?" Jazz inquired, having been looking over Danny's shoulder.

KM subsequently snatched them out of his hands and looked them over herself. Under the main heading of the construct on the drawing was where she found the information they were looking for. "A-51, University of Wisconsin," she read out to the others. "It's from your parent's college days," she informed them. "And the scale is much bigger than what your parents built down in their lab," she confirmed, explaining why the new portal before them was much bigger than normal.

"Well, I guess that shouldn't have too much of a negative effect on what I've got planned," Danny grumbled to himself as he threw another look at the inactive ghost portal.

"Speaking of your plan, what exactly are you gunna do that involves KP?" Ron asked curiously as he cocked an eyebrow at the younger teen.

"Honestly, I can't quite figure out how you plan to bring her out of this comatose state with the ghost portal," Wade interjected. "The activation of the portal won't restore her personality. I really can't follow that kind of logic," he said, shaking his head with worry.

"Oh, it'll restore her personality, alright," Danny smirked at them with a knowing grin. "She'll be back to her old self in no time," he reassured the others.

"Umm, how?" KP's ghost form asked, still quite confused about how he planned on pulling off such a feat.

"She just has to turn it on," Danny answered with a simple shrug of his shoulders. Danielle's eyes widened and Jazz and KM shared a nervous glance when he suggested this. The others seemed no less confused before KP's father coughed to get their attention.

"About that; need I remind you that the switch to activate the machine is on the inside?" he reminded the ghost teen with an irritated glare. "Anybody that's inside that thing when it's activated is gunna be infected with ecto-plasm," he informed the teen, reminding him really, as he waved his arm at the ghost portal in question.

"That's your plan!?" KP's ghost half shouted at him with anger. "Create another version of me?" she asked, indicating herself with her hands.

"It's not gunna create another version of your ghost form," Danny replied, narrowing his eyes.

"And that's not the only problem here," Monique interjected. "How is she supposed to go into the machine and turn it on?" she asked angrily as she too waved her hand at the ghost portal. "She's too traumatized from her ordeal to move. She can't even get around on her own, let alone activate that thing!"

"She won't be going in and doing it alone," Danny defended his line of thinking as the others quickly denounced his plans.

"Danny," Jazz spoke softly so as to help diffuse the tension between them all. He turned to face her and she wasn't angry like the others, but seemed more concerned than anything else. "I want to believe that you know what you're doing; most of the time, you do; but this idea of yours will only cause her more harm than good," she informed him solemnly.

"Not if she's overshadowed by her ghost half!" Danny shouted with frustration to get his point across to the others. This sudden outburst quieted everyone into listening, allowing him to fully explain his reasoning. "I'm still only theorizing here, but if Kim's human half is overshadowed by her ghost half, and they activate the portal, then the resulting ecto-plasmic radiation will, rather than infect her with ghost DNA because she already is due to being overshadowed, it will fuse her two halves back together, forming one whole with a complete personality and full range of normal, human emotions," he was finally allowed to explain.

Everyone took several moments to contemplate this before Wade broke the silence.

"That could work," he agreed with Danny, shrugging his shoulders and tilting his head as he glanced around at the other teens.

"Yeah, but what are the chances of success?" Ron inquired, still worried for his girlfriend's health, both mental and physical.

"Slim," Jazz answered. "Very slim. While Danny is right, it could fuse her two halves back together; it could also completely erase her ghost half, leaving only her human half remaining, with or without her humanity returned to her," she warned. She only knew of this possibility because it'd happened to Danny the year previously; although, he'd also been intentionally trying to get rid of his powers at the time. For Kim, it could have the same accidental results that could potentially put her human half's life at risk.

"I believe she could survive," Danny gave his opinion as he folded his arms and glanced at the ghost teen in question. "She and I survived being inside the particle accelerator; and I've survived a number of ghost portal incidents myself. She can most certainly survive this one. In the end though, it's your decision to make," he spoke directly to her, his eyes brimming with confidence in her durability.

She looked back deep into his as she tried to search for any sign of uncertainty, but she couldn't find any. There was no doubt in his eyes; he was confident that she would pull through in the end, if she went through with it. Turning away from him, her eyes fell on her human form, forced to stare ahead at the ghost teen in front of her. There was no point in looking for any kind of emotion from the traumatized girl; there was none to be seen. She'd have to figure this out on her own, coming to her own decision.

"I'll do it," she said simply, coming to her own decision without having to think too hard about it. "I'll overshadow her and hope we end up merging back together," she sighed, still never taking her gaze away from her human form, until it was drawn away by the shocked cries that came from those around her.

"What!?" her mother shouted in disbelief as her eyes widened in shock.

"Kim, no!" Monique shouted, hoping her friend was kidding, or at least would change her mind if they pleaded hard enough.

"This machine has the power to completely obliterate you if things don't go smoothly!" her father shouted as he waved one of his hands at the Ghost Portal. "It could kill you!" It was apparent that he was upset with her decision to go through with this.

"KP, you can't risk doing that to yourself," Ron pleaded. "There are safer alternatives," he reminded her, hoping she'd back out. "We can still go with Plan A," he said with a nervous sweat, hoping she'd relent.

"Plan A is just as risky as this plan!" KP shouted at everyone who was trying to plead with her. "If this Plasmius guy is as dangerous as Danny says he is, then he could pose a far more terrible threat than even Freakshow. He could probably kill me just as easily, if he's provoked. He's never heard of me, so he probably wouldn't even have to think twice about doing it. And you all remember what Danny said about there possibly being a time limit. Even if we succeed, but take too long doing so, it might be too late to merge us back together."

"I know the risk of cataclysmic catastrophe is enormous if I go through with this; but I've been presented with the opportunity to fix what has been done to me here and now, rather than drag it out, only to find that it can't be done anyway. I'd much rather just get it done and over with," she declared as she slowly glanced around at all of her friends before her eyes settled on her father. "You guys may all think that it's impossible. Well, all I have to say to that is, check my name," she said with a grin of renewed self-confidence.

"Hmm," Wade hummed in thought as he rubbed his chin with his fingers. "What exactly is that old saying of yours, Dr. P?" he asked of KP's father.

He took a moment to contemplate the situation to himself before he allowed himself to smirk as he answered. "Nothing is impossible, for a Possible," he answered, finally accepting his daughter's decision.

"Especially, Kim Possible," Danny chimed in, smirking as well as he folded his arms.

"Umm, that's not really part of the saying," KP's father informed him.

"Hee, it may as well be," Danny responded with a slight chuckle. "There's only a one letter difference," he pointed out what KP herself had already alluded to.

"Impossible, Kim Possible," Danielle muttered to herself as she appeared to weigh invisible weights in her hands. "I just got that!" she shouted with excitement. "And your guys' names work out that way too," she inquired of the twins that stood nearby, both of whom glanced at each other and smirked knowingly.

KP turned and looked back down at her wheelchair bound human form with a frown before it was replaced with a look that showed she meant business. Turning intangible, she stepped forward and placed a hand on her human form's shoulder before phasing the entirety of her form into her human form's body. KP's eyes widened as they shone with orange light that didn't fade as her ghost form took control. Standing up, she and Danny shared another intense stare for just a moment.

"Let's do this," she said with determination, to which Danny nodded in agreement, standing aside to let her pass on her way to the inactive Ghost Portal behind him. Stepping up to the large circular opening, she inhaled deeply and gulped nervously before releasing her breath. "Here we go," she sighed nervously before stepping inside.

The others stood a good distance back and watched with anticipation as she approached the On Switch inside the inactive portal. She inhaled sharply again before reaching out her hand and extended her index finger. Holding her breath and gritting her teeth, she closed her eyes and turned away from the button as she pushed it.

She wasn't the only one holding her breath; everyone else waited in anticipation, never blinking as the tension built up until it could be cut with a knife. They couldn't look away, even after she had pushed the button. And just when the tension couldn't be any thicker…

Nothing happened.

Cracking one eye open, KP peeked at the button when she realized nothing had happened. She turned her whole attention back to it as she pushed it a couple more times in succession, still with no result. "Umm, Houston, we've got a problem," she squeaked fearfully towards the others.

Danielle face-palmed herself as Danny began scratching the side of his head in confusion.

"I could have sworn we put it together correctly," Mr. Dr. Possible exclaimed to himself as he once again unrolled the blueprints and began meticulously examining them.

"I bet I know what happened," Professor Ramesh began to theorize before he shot Dr. Drakken a scathing look. "Drew probably skimped out on some important pieces of equipment in an effort to save time," he speculated as Professor Chen nodded along in agreement.

"I did not!" Dr. Drakken retaliated, sounding quite offended. "We used each and every single piece of building material and equipment that was deemed necessary," he explained, defending himself by pointing his finger into his palm as he emphasized every word. "It's probably just a loose wire or something," he threw out his own theory.

"So, we're not going through with it, then?" Monique asked, looking down at Wade who only shrugged in response. Ron sighed with relief as he wiped away sweat that had formed on his forehead. Rufus sat on his shoulder, patting his human friend's neck in comfort before he noticed something on the floor and ran down Ron's body and pant leg.

"Great! So how are we supposed to get home now if the stupid portal doesn't work!?" KM shouted angrily, clearly frustrated by the lack of events.

"Guess we're gunna need another plan then, I suppose," Jazz tried to calm her friend, to little success of her own.

"I was so sure this was gunna work," Danny mumbled to himself, tilting his head and holding his chin with his fingers. "What could've gone wrong?" he asked himself before he glanced down and saw Rufus standing over a pair of unconnected power cords.

"Hmm," the naked rodent contemplated to himself as he examined the two unconnected cords. Grasping both ends, he connected them together with a small spark. "Taa-dah," he exclaimed joyfully before the machine began to hum loudly. "Uh-oh," he squawked nervously when he realized he may have just jumpstarted a whole new series of horrifying events.

Danny looked up from the naked rodent and gasped as his face was lit up by a bright green light.

Disappointed that the portal hadn't activated as expected, KP was walking back towards the inactive portal's entrance with her head hanging somberly, when she heard the portal begin to hum around her. With a look of confusion in her eyes, she turned and looked towards the back of the portal as green lights turned on, starting from the back and moving forward along the length of the portal's inner workings until the entire thing was aglow with green light that grew in intensity by the second. When sparks began arching around the inside of the portal, KP looked back towards the others standing outside of the portal with a look of terror in her eyes.

Rufus was still standing over the two power cords he'd connected, too stunned and awestruck by the bright lights coming from the portal to realize the inherent danger of being too close. Cujo quickly dashed in and grabbed up the naked rodent on his mouth before running away from the now active portal.

"AARRGGHH!" KP screamed from within the portal as a blast of bright green energy erupted from the portal's opening, forcing everyone to either take cover or protect themselves in some fashion. Danny hid his head behind his arms, peeking between them as KP's scream lessened.

The eruption of green energy spiraled and formed into a vortex turned on its side before it was pulled back into the Ghost Portal's entrance where it leveled out and formed the traditional green swirls of an active Ghost Portal.

"Huh. It's never done that before," Danny said, mainly to himself after lowering his arms. Nobody asked him to elaborate on this, but took it as the cue that it was alright to come out of hiding behind equipment and see the results of their hard work.

From within the swirling gases of the newly formed Ghost Portal, a black gloved hand emerged and grabbed the side of the portal before the rest of the arm followed, along with the person it was attached to. KP, in her Ghost form, complete with black and orange Super Suit and icy blue hair, fully stepped back into the room, holding her head with her hand as she tried to regain her senses. Her whole body seemed to be letting off an orange mist.

"Ugh," she groaned before she collapsed to her hands and knees, the orange mist still rising from her body, but quickly fading now.

"KP!" Ron yelled before he rushed forward to help her. He tried to help her stand, but her arms suddenly went intangible, and his hands lost their grip as they passed right through her arms. "You're a ghost! Again!" he yelled in excitement, knowing that she was still alive, somewhat, and that she would at least be alright after all.

"I am?" she questioned, still sounding a bit weary before she looked into her hands and realized they were those of her Ghost Form. "I am! I'm a ghost again! It worked!" she shouted with excitement. "This is incredible!" she cheered as she jumped to her feet, much to the heartfelt joy of those around her. "I feel…" she began to elaborate on her renewed vigor before she suddenly winced and collapsed against Ron's side as he helped keep her on her feet. "A little light headed," she groaned before holding her head in her hand again. She promptly changed back into her human form, now no longer traumatized and back under her full control as her friends and family gathered around her, momentarily worrying them before they calmed down upon seeing that she was going to be alright.

Danny, Danielle, Jazz and KM couldn't help but smile at seeing KP's spirits lifted after the trauma she had suffered at Freakshow's hands. Her friends and family had been so worried about her when she'd come back to them in a comatose state, but were now so relieved that she had made such an amazing recovery, using such an unorthodox recovery method.

Even Danny felt a sense of relief; her physical and mental state had been one of the things he'd been concerned about as well. It was one of those things that he'd have felt guilty about leaving unresolved if he'd gone home without helping in any way that he could. Now that her condition was essentially on the mend, he could return home with a clear conscious. Glancing at his sisters and their Kim, he knew they felt the same way he did, and they were all thinking the same thing he was.

He then looked at the swirling gases of the ghost portal and was hit by a sudden wave of nostalgia. This was his ticket home; they'd been waiting for this moment for a long time, and they weren't going to put it off any longer. "It's time we got going," he informed the three girls beside him, who all nodded in agreement. Kim even proceeded to activate her ghost hunting suit to prepare for their journey into the Ghost Zone.

"Kim, are you sure you're ok with doing this?" Ron asked her with worry.

"Yeah, totally," she replied with a thumbs up before she winced, quite noticeably. "I've never been better," she groaned, though tried hiding it.

"I think you need to rest up a bit, girl," Monique cocked an eyebrow at her, not believing her friend.

"I'll be fine," KP reassured her friend with a grin. "After all they've done for us, I need to do this."

"What you need to do, is stay here and rest up," Danny advised her as he nonchalantly fiddled with the transistor.

KP snapped out of her dreary state when she heard him say this. She glared at Danny and the girls as they tried to act innocent. "Stay here!?" she shouted at them before she winced again. She shoved off Ron and Monique, stepping away under her own power, albeit a bit wobbly on her own feet, much to the chagrin of her own family and friends. "I was gunna help you guys back in your home," she pleaded desperately.

"You're body needs rest after what's been done to it," Danny informed her as he eyed her up and down.

"Face it, you're so exhausted, you're practically panting like a dog in order to catch your breath," the other Kim informed her as she herself fiddled with the controls on her wrist.

KP practically snapped her mouth shut to hide the reality of her condition from the others, though they'd seen as soon as the other Kim said something.

"We know you want to help, but you really have done enough for us already," Jazz tried to calmly reassure her.

"But what about all that you've done for us!?" KP shouted in retaliation, ignoring her bodies aching condition. It was clear she was fighting weariness. "If not for you guys, Freakshow would have completely destroyed this world," she reminded them. "I'm obligated to help you."

"If not for us, Freakshow would never have been a threat to this world in the first place," Danny reminded her, pointing out that it was all indeed their own fault in the first place. "We brought trouble onto you; we can't ask you to help us clean up our own mess too," he said, shaking his head.

"We'll figure out something once we get home," the other Kim reassured her name-counter-part.

"Even if not all of us are entirely looking forward to it," Danielle admitted sheepishly as she looked off to the side.

"Things will work out for us, one way or another," Danny reassured all of them before he turned towards his older sister. She didn't resist as he put a hand on her shoulder and turned her slightly so he could get to the backpack full of their equipment that she was wearing. He promptly removed the Boomerang that had followed him to this world and held it in his hands as he turned to face KP. "Here, take this," he offered it to her. She took it, but with a look of confusion on her face and sadness in her eyes. "It's a tracker," he reminded her. "It's honed in on my specific Ecto-signature. Should you ever need us, for whatever reason, come find me."

KP contemplated the tracking device in her hands for a moment. "You guys are really leaving," she finally relented with a grin as she held the tracker closer to her chest. "I'll be sure to keep this safe, so it can be used in the event of an emergency," she assured him, looking back up at him. "Although, I hope we may meet again one day without some sort of tragedy bringing us together," she hoped.

"I'm sure we'll be able to arrange something in the future," Danny agreed to that sentiment with a nod. "For what it's worth, I'll treasure the friendship that's grown between all of us, even if most of our time spent here was spent in turmoil and complete disarray," hinting at a part of their stay that he wasn't too keen on remembering.

"We've got plenty of havoc waiting for us back home," the other Kim reminded him, eagerly waiting for them to finish their goodbyes. She was quite anxious to get going. "Who knows what kind of mayhem Vlad and the other ghosts have caused in our absence," she grumbled as she began fiddling with an ecto-blaster that she'd managed to pull out of nowhere, already getting ready for whatever they may face. She had no way of knowing that would be sooner than expected.

The swirling gases of the Ghost Portal were disturbed by a small blue faced ghost sticking his nose in where it didn't belong. He looked around cautiously before fully emerging from the swirling gases. "Fear me! For I am the Box Ghost!" the annoying little ghost shouted, throwing his arms into the air over his head and waving them around.

His taunting was cut short by the humming of a charging ecto-blaster that had been placed under his chin. A look of fear crossed his face as he glanced down and saw KM aiming the ghost hunting weapon at his chin.

"Umm, beware?" his voice quivered upon realizing he may have made a mistake coming through this particular portal, trying to taunt those on the other side, not realizing they were old enemies that could easily handle him.

"Looks like I'll be getting in a little bit of target practice before we leave," Kim taunted back as a sinister grin spread across her face.

"Oh good lord, please not this guy," Danielle grumbled with frustration as she face-palmed herself. "He's the last ghost I wanted to first encounter after things returned to a sense of normalcy."

"Hold your fire, Kim," Danny advised her. The Box Ghost nervously glanced back and forth between him and the girl with the maniacal look in her eyes. "He'll be good for information on what's been going on," he informed her.

"He is an excellent stool-pigeon," Jazz admitted half-heartedly, trying to stay on the bright side of this chance meeting. "He's sure to know enough to be of some use."

"Piece of advice," Danny mentioned, turning back towards KP. "Keep the portal shut and locked tight when it's not being used," he advised her, and the others listening nearby. "You've got enough enemies and notorious criminals to deal with without any ghosts coming through and causing you trouble. Guys like this are easy enough for Rufus to handle, but the Ghost Zone is choke full of powerful ghosts that aren't exactly too friendly towards humans; so be extremely careful if you ever go venturing inside," he warned, a tone of seriousness hanging from his voice.

"Dually noted," KP's father acknowledged his warning with a nod. He'd make sure it was kept shut so nothing could come through.

"So, ready to knock Vlad down a peg or two?" Danny asked of Danielle, looking down at her with a smirk.

"Vlad's gunna find that I'm not the same scared little girl as before," she replied with a glare that turned into a smirk. "When we get back, I call dibs on kicking his butt first," she called at taking the first crack at him.

With a relenting grin of his own, they both transformed into their ghost forms simultaneously; their ghost form's suits still in tatters from their recent battle. They turned and walked towards the Ghost Portal where Jazz was stepping up onto the back of Kim's glider as the ghost huntress held the surrendered Box Ghost by his shirt collar to prevent him from getting away. Dani even scooped up Cujo into one of her arms so as to not forget him behind.

"Adios," Kim bid farewell to KP and the others before she turned the glider and shot herself, Jazz and the Box Ghost through the portal and back into the Ghost Zone.

"See ya, guys!" Dani bid farewell to the Tweebs with a smile and a friendly wave with her free hand as she began hovering in the air so she was head height with her brother. "It was nice meeting you Kim," she smiled towards KP with another friendly wave.

"Hicka-bicka-boo!" the Tweebs shouted at her as they thrust their fists into the air over their heads.

"Hoo-sha," Dani responded in kind before she turned and flew through the portal after the two older girls, leaving Danny behind as he glanced back at the others with one final smile of farewell as they all smiled and nodded goodbyes of their own.

"Good luck back home," KP bid him with one final nod and a smile. "Don't be a stranger around here."

Danny nodded in understanding before putting two fingers to his temple and saluted them goodbye as he too began hovering in the air. "Till we meet again," he spoke to them before turning and diving through the swirling gases of the Ghost Portal, beginning his return journey home.

"Till we meet again," KP whispered following his disappearance through the portal.

A few silent moments after their leaving, the saddened silence was finally broken.

"So, you think it'll be awhile before we see them again?" Monique asked, her and Ron coming up on either side of KP.

"Nah," KP responded with a grin, her eyes never leaving the swirling gases of the Ghost Portal where their friends had disappeared. "I'm sure it won't be too long before we see them again," she speculated. "I'm positive they'll be back sooner than we think," she theorized as her grip on the Boomerang tracker tightened against her chest.

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Hope everyone was alright with the way I concluded things between our two groups. I certainly couldn't leave things unfinished between any of them.

Amazingly, this chapter has stolen the rank of longest chapter from 25 - Showdown in GO City. It's a bit longer in terms of word length, amazing considering that it's essentially the conclusion of the Kim Possible arc for this story. Things have been set up for another cross-over further down the road. We will be visiting the KP universe again in the future; but for now, we must look at the road ahead. Our team has finally gotten to the Ghost Zone and must now make their way home.

This story is almost complete! After spending so long rewriting it, the end is finally within sight. Just one more chapter to go, plus a little something extra that I plan on doing in my future stories, but that will be revealed with this stories conclusion, so no more on that. Now if I can just complete the last chapter in a timely fashion, I can finally get started on the rewrite for A Trip through Time. I've been planning changes to that one for as long as I've been doing this one, can't wait to eventually get them posted.

In the meantime, bask in the glory of knowing that this story has almost reached its end. Stay tuned!