A/N: Thanks for the reviews! So here's the next chapter and based on the chapter title I'm sure you can tell what this is going to be about! I hope you enjoy!

Chapter Two
The Accident

Danny, Sam, and Tucker walked down into the lab. There lay the portal, untouched since the night before. His parents had left a note on the fridge saying that they weren't home and that they needed to leave to clear their minds. Jazz was at a study party with her friends, so it was just the three of them, which was perfect. Now they wouldn't be disturbed.

"So this is it," Tucker stated as they beheld the portal.

"Yup, the source of all my problems," Danny responded.

Danny started heading towards it when Sam grabbed his shoulder and held him back.

"Wait, I think you should probably put one of the suits on, just incase."

"Good thinking." He walked over to a cupboard and pulled out a white jumpsuit with black gloves, boots, belt, and collar. He zipped it up and walked cautiously over to the portal. He didn't know why, but all of a sudden he had a bad feeling, like what he was doing would be dangerous. At the same time, he felt like this was exactly what he needed to be doing.

"Wait, Danny, I'm sorry but this has to go," Sam interrupted as she walked over to him, ripping the sticker of Jack's face off the chest of his jumpsuit.

"Thanks," he replied with a smile as he continued towards the portal. He stepped cautiously over the threshold and into the short tunnel. His fiends stood back, looking anxious and frightened. Sam was verbally abusing herself for suggesting that he take a look. This was too dangerous and she didn't like it. She looked over at Tucker and his expression showed the same thing.

"Danny, maybe this is a bad idea. I don't know if I like this," Sam warned, her eyes wide with worry.

"Relax guys. It's broken, so what could possibly happen?"

"I dunno, I think Sam's right. I don't think you should be in there," Tucker added.

"Guys, this is the one way to help my parents. They've done so much for me and this is one way to repay them. Don't worry. I'll be careful, I promise. Nothing's going to happen."

He walked in, now feeling scared and shaky. He knew he was feeling the same feelings of worry that his friends were, but he knew he had to do this. He felt almost torn in half. Half of him wanted to delve further in, feeling like he was supposed to be there, helping his parents, but the other half wanted to run quickly out of the portal and just learn to live with his parents' depression. He pushed the thoughts out of his head and started looking above him at all the wires and circuitry. Could one of the wires be loose or faulty? He wouldn't put it past his parents to forget to check and make sure that the wires were all plugged in and good. Maybe they accidentally crossed two of them wrong or something? Well, it would sure take a while to check them all, since they ran under all the metal plates and sometimes over them.

As he was entranced by the number of things that could possibly be wrong with just the circuitry, he tripped over a cord on the ground and caught himself on the wall. He heard his friends gasp from outside and turned around and waved at them, indicating that he was okay. Then he started to hear loud beeping as lights came on inside the portal. He looked at where his hand landed when he braced his fall. It was right over a button that read "On". Wow, they never even turned it on. I knew it was something simple like that he thought.

Then the portal started to spark around the edges as a metallic voice rang through the lab.

"Fenton Ghost Portal activated." Danny realized he was in serious danger.

"Opening door to the Ghost Zone in 3…" He turned around and started running out.

"2…" He could see he wasn't going to make it. He was done for. He looked at his friends, their eyes wide with fear.

"1."

The portal glowed green and Danny screamed in pain as he was enveloped in ghostly energy. His friends covered their eyes at the blinding flash of light. When it subsided they opened their eyes to see a dark figure fly out of the portal and into the opposite wall. They ran towards him, afraid of what they'd find. They approached him and Sam and Tucker gasped. Danny's hair had turned snow white and the colors of his jumpsuit were inverted. His face was extremely pale and he wasn't breathing.

"Oh no," Sam stuttered sadly, tears falling from her eyes. "No, please no."

"Danny? Can you hear me? Danny? Please answer," Tucker stammered, his voice breaking from sorrow and fear.

Sam bent over him and placed a finger on his neck to check his pulse. She pulled her finger away from shock at touching his skin: it was ice cold. She placed her finger back and waited for a pulse, but none came. She placed her head on his chest and didn't feel his chest moving, didn't feel or hear a heartbeat.

"Tucker, his heart's not beating!" she yelled through her frantic sobs.

Tucker bent down and checked for himself. "He's not breathing! Do you know how to do CPR?"

"How can you do CPR on someone without a heartbeat?" she sobbed frantically, tears pouring out her eyes.

"But he can't be…he can't be…" Tucker stammered through his sobs, not able to admit it.

"Don't say it!" Sam yelled. "He's not dead! He's not!"

"But Sam, he has no heartbeat and no pulse! He can't possibly be…alive."

"No! No!" Sam cried. "You promised Danny! You promised everything would be fine! You said nothing would happen!" She threw herself onto Tucker and cried into his shoulder.

Tucker removed his hat in respect, when he heard a groan. Sam lifted her head out of Tucker's shoulder and looked at Danny. They saw him move slightly and he groaned again. Sam checked for his pulse again and still couldn't find one.

"I don't understand," Sam stated, puzzled. "He still doesn't have a pulse."

"Let's take him up to his room. He's obviously still alive, even though he doesn't look it. Plus, he's as cold as ice; he needs to be put under some covers."

"Alright, you take his head, I'll take his feet," Sam directed as she wiped her eyes on her sleeve.

Tucker bent down to pick him up by the arms and pulled up, surprised at how light he was. "Sam, he's lighter than my PDA!"

Sam grabbed his legs and lifted, finding it to be no trouble at all. "I really don't like this Tucker. Something weird happened."

They carried Danny up to his room and placed him under the covers. They got a warm cloth and placed it on his forehead. Then they sat next to him, hoping for him to recover, to comfort their nerves. Sam continued to check his pulse, to still find that there was none, and he still didn't look like he was breathing at all.

"It's like he's a ghost," Tucker said aloud.

Danny groaned and moved his head. He thought he heard someone say his name. He groaned again. What happened? The last thing he remembered was being in the ghost portal and then he saw a bright green light, and then pain. Lots and lots of pain.

His eyes shot open, suddenly remembering what happened. He saw he was in his bedroom, and his two friends were on either side of his bed, staring at him in worry.

"D-danny?" Sam asked shakily.

"What happened?" Danny asked. He gasped. His voice sounded weird, like it had an echo to it. His friends obviously noticed it too, because they started staring at him, frightened.

"What happened?" he repeated.

"We don't know," Tucker replied, his voice shaking. "You were in the portal and then it turned on and you started screaming. Then you were thrown out and we ran over to you and…well…you should probably look in a mirror."

Sam handed Danny a mirror and he gasped. His hair was snow white and his eyes were glowing green. His skin was extremely pale and the colors of his jumpsuit were inverted.

"Oh my God, what happened to me?" Danny asked as he touched his face in shock, making sure it was his. He gasped as he realized his face felt ice cold to the touch.

"We don't know," Sam repeated. "But, just let me check something first." She reached for his neck and waited. "Danny, I don't feel a pulse."

"What are you talking about? Of course I have a pulse." He put his hand to his neck and waited, but he didn't feel anything, not even the slightest trace of a heartbeat. "Oh my God," he stuttered, moving his hand around his neck, to his chest, trying to find a heartbeat. "I don't have a pulse. Oh my God. I-I don't have a pulse. Am I…am I d-dead? Am I a…a ghost?"

"But Danny, ghosts don't exist," Tucker reasoned.

"Do you have another explanation for this? How else can I be talking to you without a pulse?"

"I don't know, but I think you need to calm down," Tucker advised.

"I can't calm down! I don't have a pulse!" Danny yelled. Then he felt a slight tingle throughout his body and noticed that Tucker and Sam started getting higher, and soon he was staring at the inside of the bed. He jumped up and then looked down. He was floating. "Oh my God. I'm floating. What's going on? Pull me down!"

Sam and Tucker each grabbed a leg and pulled him back down onto the bed.

"What happened?"

"You-you turned all clear and blue and then you just started…falling through the bed. Then you came out and started floating," Sam explained.

"I am a ghost. Oh my God. That portal thing, it killed me, and now I'm stuck here as a ghost! What if my parents find me?"

"I think we have other things to worry about right now," Tucker said calmly.

"Like what?"

"Why we can't see you," Sam answered.

"What do you mean? I'm sitting on the bed looking at you." He looked down and realized he couldn't see the rest of his body. "Help! I've gone invisible! How do I go back?"

"How am I supposed to know?" Tucker asked. "You're the ghost."

"Ha ha, very funny," he said as he became visible again. "What am I going to do? I don't want to be a ghost! I'm not ready to be dead!"

"Well, I have some good news," Tucker stated, trying to lighten the mood. "The portal's working."

"Oh good Tucker. I'm glad I sacrificed my life for the good of ghost research," Danny replied sarcastically. Then two rings of light formed around his waist and traveled up and down his body. His black jumpsuit turned back into a white t-shirt and jeans. His skin regained its color, his eyes turned back to blue, and his hair returned to its regular black color.

Danny looked down at his body, seeing the regular clothes. He picked up the mirror and examined his face, exactly the way it had always been. He placed his fingers on his neck and felt a pulse.

"I have a pulse!" he cried with joy. "I'm alive!"

Sam placed her hand on his neck. His skin still felt cold, but it was no longer icy. She also felt a pulse beating under her fingers.

"Oh Danny!" she cried as she gave him a huge hug.

Tucker joined the hug, grateful that his friend wasn't dead.

"But, Danny, what happened?" Sam asked, pulling away from the hug and looking at him quizzically, Tucker following in suit.

"I don't know," he answered truthfully. As thankful as he was to be back in his original body, the whole thing was scaring him. If he couldn't go back, then he would at least know that he was a ghost, and then things would be simpler. But now, what was he? What just happened? What really happened during the accident? He could easily have died; it sure hurt enough. He really thought he was going to die, so maybe he did? But that wouldn't explain how he was now alive.

"Alright, just to clarify this, we all saw what just happened?" Tucker asked and received puzzled looks from Danny and Sam. "We all saw Danny with white hair, glowing green eyes, falling through the bed, floating, and turning invisible, right?"

"What kind of a question is that?" Sam asked.

"Of course we saw it! I did it!"

"Alright, I just had to make sure."

The three of them remained silent, lost in thought, trying to explain what happened.

"Danny, what if you try to float again, or turn invisible, or whatever you do?" Sam suggested.

"What good would that do?" Danny asked.

"I don't know, give us more information," she replied.

"But I don't even know how I did it in the first place," Danny protested.

"Just try, concentrate," Tucker advised. "That's what they always suggest in the movies."

Danny closed his eyes and started to think. He didn't really want to try floating. He figured he could do it before because he was so light, but not anymore. He didn't really want to test invisibility, just incase he couldn't find a way to make himself visible again, so he decided on intangibility. He stuck his hand under the covers and then tried to imagine the covers falling right through his hand. He stared at his hand, willing it to phase through the covers. He was about to give up when he felt a tingle in his hand as the covers fell straight through it. He lifted his hand up to examine it and his friends looked at it in awe. It still had a definite form, but it was transparent with a bluish tint.

"Alright, I'm officially freaked out now," Danny stated as he plunged his hand into his bed, finding no objections as it passed easily through the solid mattress. He removed it and started sticking it through random things near his bed, including Tucker.

"Geez Danny that's cold!" Tucker complained as he felt Danny's hand go through his arm.

"Alright, we need to figure this out," Sam suggested and Danny stopped goofing off, his hand still intangible, since he didn't know how to return it to normal.

"So," Tucker began "we've discovered that Danny's a ghost and a human, but while he's human, he has ghost powers. So, I say you're half ghost, half human and that you have ghost powers."

"How can someone be half ghost?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, I think that's kinda impossible," Danny added, still looking at his intangible hand.

"You've got a better idea?" Tucker asked them. They both mumbled that they didn't. "If Danny can be a ghost and a human at the same time, then he's obviously half ghost, half human, with added perks."

"Does it really matter what he is? The point is that he has ghost powers and that he can turn into a ghost. Danny, try to look like a ghost again," Sam commanded.

"I keep telling you guys, I don't know how. I still haven't gotten my hand back to normal!" he said frustrated, showing them his still intangible hand.

"Come on Danny, I know you can do it. If you can turn back to human then there has to be a way to go ghost. Just think about being your ghost half now instead of your human half."

Danny thought exactly that, but he didn't feel anything happen. He tried to remember what he looked like when he was a ghost, the jumpsuit, the pale skin, the snow white hair, the glowing green eyes…

He felt a tingle around his waist and looked down to see two white rings. They moved in opposite directions, changing his shirt and jeans into the black jumpsuit. He grabbed the mirror and saw his eyes change from blue to green, his hair from black to white.

"Cool," Tucker stated in awe.

Danny smiled as a faint red color drifted up his cheeks, contrasting greatly with his pale skin tone. He thought about floating and decided to try doing it. He threw the covers off him and lifted himself out of bed. He was amazed at how easy it was for him to get out of bed, he felt so light.

"Wow, that's weird. I felt like I'm a hundred pounds lighter."

"You probably are," Tucker announced. "When we carried you upstairs we found out you were super light and ice cold."

Danny walked around his room, getting used to the feeling of being practically weightless. "Hey, check this out!" Danny bragged as he started walking like he was on the moon, with big, high leaps into the air that carried him far across his room.

"You look like you're on the Moon," Sam described.

"I feel like I'm on the Moon," Danny elaborated. He stopped and then jumped into the air, but he didn't come down.

"Danny, you're floating!" Sam yelled.

"You know, it's not that bad when you know what you're doing," Danny remarked, looking below him. He started looking down so far that he summer-salted in the air. "Okay, but that's bad," he mentioned after ending up right-side-up.

"So, if you can float, does that mean you can fly?" Tucker asked.

"Let's find out," Danny smiled mischievously as he moved towards Tucker and Sam and grabbed them under his arms and lifted them into the air.

"Oh no, Danny, no…this isn't good!" Sam stuttered as she shut her eyes as Danny flew in circles around the room.

"Yahoo!" Tucker yelled. "Danny this is awesome!"

Danny put them down on the bed as he continued to float behind them. "Sam, we're back on the ground. Well, actually the bed, but same difference," Tucker remarked back.

Sam opened her eyes and noticed that they were indeed standing on Danny's bed facing the wall. She looked up at Danny, who had his eyes shut and looked like he was concentrating really hard.

"Danny, what are you doing?" Sam asked him. His whole body went intangible and then suddenly Sam and Tucker felt tingles in their bodies as he turned them intangible. "Oh no, oh no. Daniel Fenton, don't even think about it!" Sam started yelling as she realized what he was doing. He lifted them off the bed and flew through the wall, turning them all tangible after reaching the outside. Danny shook his head a little, breathing heavy. Turning them all intangible took a lot of energy, but he wanted to see whether or not he could do it. Plus, how else were they going to get outside?

Danny turned his body upward and started climbing altitude, the wind rushing through his snowy hair. He turned to face straight again and pushed himself forward through the air, defying gravity. He looked over at Tucker whose eyes were wide in awe and shock as he looked at the passing ground below. Sam, on the other hand, had her hands over her eyes, but still looking like she was enjoying herself. Then Danny remembered; Sam was scared of heights.

"Can you go any faster Danny?" Tucker asked in amazement.

"I don't think we should push him Tucker. What if he gets tired and we all fall," Sam advised, her voice shaking.

Tucker looked at Danny, who simply smiled and mouthed "Hold on" as he faced forward and pushed harder. Danny could tell they were picking up speed, he felt the wind whip harder at his face and saw the ground pass by much quicker. He pushed harder, wanting to go as fast as he could. Pretty soon they were whipping around the city, Tucker and Danny having the time of their lives.

"Hey Danny, my PDA says we're going nearly 70 miles per hour! You're flying at 70 miles per hour!" Tucker shouted, clearly having more fun with Danny's powers than he was.

"Which means that we'll hit anything we run into 70 times harder than we would normally," Sam reasoned grimly.

"Oh come on Sam. You think I'd honestly let that happen?"

"Yes. You don't have full control yet. What if you accidentally turn invisible or intangible and we just fall through your arms?" Sam started asking as white rings formed around Danny's waist, turning him human again. "Or that," Sam stated as they started falling.

"Danny, fly! Do something!" Tucker yelled.

"I can't! I don't think I can fly in human form!"

"Great. Now we all can be ghosts," Sam muttered sarcastically.

"That's not necessary Sam!" Tucker yelled.

"Well it's true! Hey Tucker, how fast does your PDA say we're going now?"

"Sam this isn't the time! We're falling to our death!"

"Sure it is. I want the last few moments of my life to be happy!"

"Yeah, well you know what would make me happy? Not having a last few moments of my life!"

While his friends bickered, Danny concentrated. The snowy hair, the green eyes, the jumpsuit. Nothing happened. "Oh come on, I need to go ghost!" Danny yelled to no one in particular. Suddenly the two rings formed around his waist as he turned back into a ghost. Then he shot up, rising away from the ground.

"Yes! Yes! We're not dead! We're not going to die!" Tucker yelled excitedly. "I knew you'd save us Danny! I could kiss you!"

"Please don't. I think I figured something out. I think my powers are somewhat controlled by my emotions. Earlier, in the room, my powers were shorting out because I was stressed and scared, and earlier I was scared that I really would lose control, so I did. So, I figure that the extreme revulsion I would feel from you kissing me would definitely do that."

Tucker and Sam both laughed. Danny continued to fly around, loving the feeling of defying gravity. This was something he could definitely get used to.

A/N: Alright, I know the part where they're finding out about his powers is a little on the cheesy side, but hey, this is Danny Phantom, that's the way it's supposed to be!

Hoping you're still enjoying this!