Danny was looking for his parents but couldnt find them, the five years old had just finished his draw of him in a rocket ship, he was very proud of it so he wanted to show it to his parents so they could put it in the fridge, a place of honor for all the drawings. He had looked in every room of the house except the kitchen, entering there he heard sounds coming from the lab/basement. Happy to have found them Danny went down immediately.
The first thing that Danny noticed at entering the lab was the mountain of dirt in the corner of it, he also noticed the big hole his parents were digging in the far end of the lab. There were various tools surrounding the elder Fentons, mostly shovels, some were broken while other looked new.
"Mommy, Daddy! Look what I made!" Danny exclaimed excited to show them his drawing.
"Danny boy!" Jack exclaimed while picking up his son.
"Look, look. I'm there in the rocket, and that's Mars and that's the stars and that's the aliens" Danny explained his draw pointing at everything in it.
"This is great son! Right Mads?" Jack said, Maddie had put away the shovels and went to see Danny's drawing while he was explaining.
"Of course love. You made a very pretty drawing Danny, we'll put it in the fridge as soon as we finish here" Maddie smiled.
"Yay! Then you'll see it everyday!" Danny exclaimed excited.
"We'll need more magnets to put all your drawings sweety" Maddie commented amused, her son was in a art phase and she loved every bit of it.
"Why are you playing with dirt?" Danny asked looking curiously at the mess the lab was.
"Oh danno, it's going to be great! We are making space to build a ghost portal!" Jack said with a wide smile in his face.
"Ghost portal? What it do?" Danny asked, tilting his head to a sidelike a curious puppy.
"It will open up to the world of ghosts so we can finally see them!" Jack explained.
"But ghosts are scary! What if they try to scary me?!" Danny exclaimed fearfully, his parents had told him a lot of stories about evil ghosts.
"Don't worry son. I, Jack Fenton, wont let any spooks scare my family!" Jack proclaimed making danny giggle at his silly voice.
"Do you want to help us Danny?" Maddie asked, glad that her husband could reassure their son and trying to distract Danny of anything scary.
"Can I play with the dirt with you?" Danny asked hopefully.
"Yes sweety. I think we have a little shovel over here for you" Maddie said before giving Danny a garden shovel.
"Yay!" Danny exclaimed before grabbing the small shovel and starting to dig into the big hole, excited to play with his parents.
At the end of the day they hadn't made a lot of progress in the digging, the portal was going to be big and needed a lot of space, it would take some month before it could be finished. Even so that day Danny had a lot of fun playing with the dirt, so much he got buried in the mountain of soft dirt, he ended up almost as brown as it and had to take a bath. His mom wasn't too happy for the dirtied clothes but didn't complain, she knew it was a big possibility when she invited her son to work with them.
After a warm bath, dinner and having his drawing put on the fridge Danny smiled to himself and buried in his mattress he drifted into pleasant dreams.