Jazz got home after a study session in the library with take out food, her parents where out in a week long paranormal conference two states away. That means that she was in charge of keeping her brother and herself feed, she didn't trust any of the food in the fridge hence the take out.
When she entered the kitchen to leave the food in the table she noticed that the door of the lab was wide open and she could hear loud bangs coming from there. Curios and a little wary, she made her way down, hoping it was an invention and not a ghost. The sight waiting down there wasn't something she expected.
The lab was the same mess as always, inventions lingering on the floor and test tubes full of ectoplasm, all of that was normal except for two things. The first thing she noticed was the portal was active and open, the strange thing was the three ecto-guns pointing at the opening. Jazz was wondering why it was arranged like that when an octopus appeared, the ecto-guns shooted at the ghost immediately, making it went back into the Ghost Zone.
The second weird thing was Danny he was hunched over the doors of the portal doing something with the cables, he was also surrounded by empty cans of energy drinks and two cups of coffee.
"Danny? What are you doing?" Jazz asked confused at the scene in front of her.
"Working" Danny said absent minded, not even looking at her.
"Working on what?" Jazz asked frustrated with the lack of real response.
"On fixing these doors" Danny said looking intensely at the cables in his hand.
"Ok… and why are there ecto-guns pointing at the portal?" Jazz asked, those were new and she didn't think Danny would ever use them.
"Because I don't want to be interrupted. What's up with all these questions?" Danny asked finally looking at her, he had huge eye bags and looked as dead as he was.
"Well, you never work in here, much less in the portal" Jazz said giving him a look, demanding answers.
"Remember two weeks ago when Skulker blow up the doors because he wanted to hunt me, and mom and dad where there and chased him down" Danny said sounding very tired.
"Yes, they were very proud of making a ghost run away from them" Jazz nodded.
"Well it turns out they didn't fix the doors, I don't know why, probably because of the convention. The thing is that without a door there are a lot of more ghosts coming and I get a lot less rest" Danny said.
"And you just decided to fix it so you could rest?" Jazz asked finally understanding the situation.
"Jazz, I haven't slept for three days straight" Danny said.
"Do you need help?" Jazz asked worried for Danny's health.
"Yes please" Danny said in relief, he was too tired to think with a clear head, he really needed help.
"I brought take out, do you want to come up and eat?" Jazz asked.
"Please bring it here. I feel like if I sit I'll pass out" Danny said.
"Alright" Jazz said before going up the stairs.
They spend the whole night working on the doors, the amount of energy cans doubling at the end of it. They could finish only because Jazz got the bright idea of looking for the blueprints, it was very messy, lucky they could decipher the draws and fix the doors. To install them Jazz deactivated the ecto-guns and Danny had to go ghost to put them in their place, they were very heavy after all. With the portal finally locked down Danny could relax, he ended up passing out on the sofa in the living room, Jazz put a blanket over him before going to her room to sleep, good thing it was a weekend.