The green and purple swirled scape of the ghost zone filled my vision as I quickly flew deeper in. The variety of doors and rock formations dwindled the deeper I went. I was on a mission from Clockwork, whenever he can't interfere or just when he sees fit, he'll send me on these missions. You know the, all is as it should be, and stuff that he just does.

After flying for about thirty minutes I reached where I needed to be. The "sky" almost looked darker and seemed to have a few red streaks in it, weird. Slowing down my flight I started just floating around trying to find the source of my mission. Soon enough I found it, a portal.

This portal wasn't like the Fenton portal or Vlad's portal, it was in the shape of a triangle which had a glowing blue circular entrance in the middle. Floating closer I released there's a bunch of energy coming from it. This is probably what Clockwork was talking about, leading to many different dimensions and being completely unstable. Whelp, time to go in. "This is my half-life now." Grumbling I flew through the portal, making sure to turn invisible.

On the other side I looked back at the portal only to realize that in the human world it had been deconstructed. "And now I also have to find a way back. Thanks Clockwork." It all seems to have been in one big underground room with one door out. I sighed deeply and went intangibly through the door. I don't even know what I'm supposed to do, Clockwork just said to go here, he wasn't being specific. Through the door seemed to be some control room/lab with many flashing lights and switches. I flew through the roof, finally coming out into what looked to be a weird gift shop.

Flying outside behind a tree I turned back to human form and looked out from behind the tree. What I seem to have flew out off some weird tourist trap, The Mystery Shack. Sighing again I mumbled to myself. "Cause everybody's got an inter dimensional portal in their basement now." Yep, normal stuff around here.

Sensing around there's a lot of spectral and supernatural energy coming from the forest, figures. Keeping my steps as light as possible I start my trek into the woods. About two minutes into my walk I came across a miniature guy who looked like a garden gnome.

This is going to be a long trip.

After two hours of exploring the forest, I was done. There were so many creatures in there I couldn't keep track of them all, I still don't even know why Clockwork had sent me here. Sighing again for what seemed like the hundredth time today, I walked into the Mystery Shack to try and find something else, literally anything else besides the headache causing woods. I mean when Clockwork sends me on an adventure it's usually more exciting.

Well this place is disturbing, inside the gift shop was a mix between overpriced dead mixed animals and strange merchandise. I mean you gotta afford the parts of the portal somehow right? It's still unknown how my parents did. I was startled out of my thoughts by someone jumping out in front of me.

"Hi I'm Mabel! I love rainbows and glitter! Here's my pig, Waddles!" The assumed twelve year old proceeded to hold up a pig who squeaked. "You look new in the area! Wanna be friends?" Wow, that was pretty much the opposite of Sam, I could barely understand any of that she was talking so fast.

My response consisted of "Uhh-sure?"

"YES!" She grabbed me by the arm and dragged me over to the counter where a girl around my age with red hair was sitting.

Mabel spoke again "Wendy this is my new friend - oh what's your name?"

"Um- Danny."

Wendy held out her hand "I'm Wendy nice to meet you, next time run while you still can."

I shook her hand "I'll remember that."

At that moment a kid that looked a lot like Mabel wearing a blue pine tree ball cap walked in. Mabel ran up and dragged him over the rest of the way "This is my bro-bro Dipper. Dipper this is Danny." Dipper didn't seem to like me and Wendy near each other and glared at me slightly. Oh ancients, now I've got a twelve-year-old with a crush not liking me.

"So Danny, what are you doing out here? I haven't seen you around here before." The accusation was clear in Dipper's voice.

"I'm just exploring." That's basically true with Clockwork giving no clear instructions.

"Do you have a girlfriend?" I turned crimson at Wendy's question, and thinking of Sam's steel toed combat boots ready for when I get back, yep definitely. Dipper's face at the question was priceless though.

"Yeah, she's back home. Probably preparing to kick me to the moon."

Dipper seemed to relax at that, Mabel smirked at him as if proving a point, and Wendy smiled. "Feisty one, nice." We all laughed at that. I like these guys, they remind me of home. All was going well, we were talking and laughing for what might have been a few hours. Turns out they've had their fair share of adventures. Mabel was very ecstatic to share and eventually Dipper was too. At one point apparently their Grunkle Stan walked through looked at us and mumbled something about annoying kids.

So overall it was going great until some guy jumped out from some sort of secret entrance behind the vending machine. When I looked closer, he seemed really similar to their Grunkle Stan but had sideburns and was wearing some cool outfit, they must have been twins like Mabel and Dipper. The two of them at that moment shouted out "Grunkle Ford!" I noticed then he was holding some sort of futuristic gun and when his eyes landed on me, the only other person there besides Wendy and the twins, that gun was pointed at me. Yeah, this isn't fun anymore, instinctively I took a step back.

He shouted to the others "Get away from that thing!" Okay so rude guy, with a weird gun, who definitely doesn't like me. Well this basically happens almost every day but still.

The others jumped but only Dipper took a small step towards his other Grunkle "You mean Danny?" If anything that made 'Ford' over here worse, soon he was advancing on me with the gun forcing Mabel, Dipper, and Wendy behind him. So obviously, I kept backing away from the crazy man with a gun.

It went on like that until my back ran into a shelf and he stopped about a meter away from me. I groaned internally, how do I always get myself into these situations? "You either have an advanced core cloaking device, or you're one of them." One of them? He knows about cores?! My heart skipped a beat, and, in my stupor, I didn't realize he was moving again. He grabbed hold of one of my arms and pressed the barrel of the gun to my head.

The other people in the room, understandably, didn't like this and Mabel took a step forward "Grunkle Ford! What are you doing?"

"Don't come any closer. He may look human, but he isn't."

Now Dipper stepped closer in front of Mabel "What?"

"Why are you here halfa." My struggles stopped and my muscles tensed for a moment I forgot how to breath. He knew. The only humans who knew about halfa's were Jazz, Sam, and Tucker. "That's what you are aren't you? The half ghost creature that roams multiple dimensions never belonging in any. Using your abilities to manipulate others."

Oh come on. Of course Vlad would give halfas a terrible name like that. "I-I-not all of us are like that. That one halfa is Vlad Masters he's been a halfa for twenty years more then us. He gives us three a bad name. And I was just sent here to search for something."

The grip on my arm tightened, well that might bruise "What are you searching for? A weapon?"

My eyes glanced up from the ground up to his eyes and I raised an eyebrow. "Um- I think the freaking portal that used to be in your basement." Understanding flashed through everyone's eyes "I mean it's disabled now, that's good, but uh the remnants of its energy is still unstable in that area. So there's still an entrance from the Ghos- uh I mean Infinity Realms." I almost called it the Ghost Zone out of habit.

The gun pressed harder into my temple "Did anything else escape."

"No, probably not. It's so deep into an abandoned area you'd only be able to find it if you were looking for it." During the questioning Mabel, Dipper, and Wendy remained silent paying complete attention as to what's going on. They looked at me as if searching for a flaw in a disguise, something that said I wasn't really the boy they'd just talked to for hours.

Ford didn't pay them any mind keeping his attention solely on me staring into my nervous eyes with focus. "Then why were you searching? Who sent you?" There it is. The one question I can't answer. Clockwork has made me swear never to tell anyone about who sends me on my missions, he cannot intervene therefore no one can know who has sent me out. My face pales at the realization, I can't tell him, he's not going to like that.

I averted my gaze. "You can't know."

"What." Ford grit his teeth.

"I can't tell you. It's against the very law of the Infinity Realms that I can't. I can't tell you and it's safer if no one else would know in the first place."

"Listen to me halfa. You will tell me who sent you. And then you're getting away from my family. I'll make sure you don't hurt anyone ever again." My eyes were wide and desperate, the others were looking conflicted but overall concerned for my well being, this had gone on long enough.

"No." Without giving him time to react I spread ice over the gun. I turned intangible and went through Ford's grip, going straight through the floor back into the secret area in the basement.

Some gasps and yelling proceeded in my wake, but it didn't matter. Looking up at where their portal used to be I could feel the pull of it's energy. Instead I pulled it towards me slowly and painfully I absorbed it all. The rush off power left me with my Phantom green eyes glowing brightly and my aura fluxing around me, even though I was still in human form. Gathering the energy in my core I felt my feet lift from the floor.

"Danny!" Whipping around Mabel was standing at the rooms entrance soon followed by Dipper and Wendy. Seconds later Ford arrived behind them holding a new gun ready to shoot in a moments notice. A bittersweet smile crossed my face as I covered myself with the energy. The uncomfortable feeling of teleporting spread over me and I was in my own room again. The purpose of the mission?

The junior Pines twins had a scribbled down address of one Danny Fenton in their room. There was promise for meetings in the future. An alliance, a friendship that would continue.