"Can you read my thoughts?" Danny asked after a few moments of silence. Jazz shrugged at him, causing the arms to wiggle strangely, and he had to suppress a laugh at the sight.

"Not unless you're thinking about how weird this is," she shrugged. Danny followed her gesture with is own and walked towards her.

"I agree with you, but that's not what I was thinking." He sighed, "Mom and Dad will be so disappointed that this didn't work." Jazz nodded and put her hand up toheadband, searching for the latch to unlock it.

"Wait," Danny grabbed her hand. "Do you hear that?" A low whistle had begun to sound, and quickly rose in pitch.

"It sounds like something's charging." Both Danny and Jazz looked up at the headband, and watched asit's armsslowly turned towards Danny.

"Um..." the white-haired halfa began to back away, "maybe this wasn't such a great idea after all."

"I'm turning it off," Jazz said, reaching for the power switch. She didn't reach it in time. All 7 arms shot a white energy blast at Danny. He tried to dodge, but it caught his foot and there was suddenly a blinding flash, accompanied by the sensation of flying. The last thing Jazz remembered seeing through the lights that obscured her view, before her head struck solid metal, was the form of her already unconscious brother's hand brushing the button that activated the porthole.

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"Oh," Jazz put a hand to her head. "Ow..." she touched the tender bump beginning to form on the back of her skull. Still, besides that, she felt better than she'd ever felt before, like she could run a mile at top speed, and stillhave energy to spare. Shaking the dazed feeling off, she stood and looked around the room. The Fenton Porthole gaped open at her, and she felt her breath catch in her lungs. She had to get that thing off before–

"Well, well, well," a voice from inside the door came at them. Jazz dove for the controls, but reached them only after a large, white figure had floated through the portal, and glanced down at the bundled, unconscious form of her black-haired brother, lying amongst several items he had obviously knocked off when he'd been thrown by the blast. "Looks like I won't have to wait for you to come running back after all." He reached for the limp body, and something inside of Jazz snapped.

"HEY!" She yelled, taking a firm stance."Stay away from my brother!" The door shut behind the ghost, and he turned towards her.

"Listen, girl," he leaned forward, "your brother owes me 1000 years in the ghost penitentiary."

"He does?" Jazz wasn't sure how to take this information, so she regarded him for several seconds before he turned his back on her.

"Yeah. So,I'll be taking him with me now."

"No!" She said, running past him and standing a few inches in front of her brother, guarding him. "I don't know what's going on, but I want to hear his side of the story."

"He's already been judged and sentenced!" Walker growled at the human teen-ager, who refused to back down.

"Jazz?" She heard her brother stir from behind them, and grinned.

"Danny, go ghost!"

"What did you say?" Danny asked weakly.

"You're ghost form!" She hissed, "Now!"

"Oh, right," he agreed. She waited for the light that signaled his change, but nothing came.

"Any day now, Danny," she said, suddenly feeling very vulnerable. Walker smiled.

"I can't!" Danny hissed back. "I can't go ghost!"


Cheerin4Danny: Well, I'm glad you were able to get over that keyboard problem. :D

Celestial: Kudos means something akin to "congradulations" or "good accomplishment", right?

LaBOBruen: I don't hate you, I just like to torture you by keeping you in suspense. What can I say? If I have an evil side, she comes out when I write. ;) Yes there are going to be pics for this one, but not for a little while. I have two illustrations done already, and that's not including the Title Page illustration.

Kraven the Hunter: Well, I appreciate you reviewing this here too.

mcrystal: yes, that is a rather sad story. I've read it, and I enjoyed it. :D Gave you a few pointers, hope you don't mind. Now, update please. :D

Dark Ninja of Avelon: Your story is next on my 'to read" list. :D Thanx for the review.