AN: Thank you for the support you've all given myself and my sister. I responded to some reviews at the bottom.

Chapter 2: Life Line

Jazz was leaned over her brothers body when her mother and father ran downstairs.

"Mads look the machine is working! The portal is open!" Jack shouted in excitement completely skipping over his crying daughter.

Maddie distracted by her husbands excitement followed his rush to the readout.

Jasmine could not believe her parents. Here she was crying over her brothers dead body and they were worried about a damn machine. Angered she walked towards the wall and quickly grabbed one of her parents turned around and raised it at them.

"Back away from the machine." She stuttered out angrily. When the two didn't turn around she fired a shot over their heads almost dropping the gun from the unexpected recoil.

Maddie and Jack turned around in shock only to see their distraught daughter pointing a gun at them.

"Jazz that's not a toy put it down." Jack said looking at his daughter in worry holding his hand out for the gun

"You killed him." Jazz said quietly.

"Killed who Jazz. Let's take a moment to talk about this." Maddie said trying to calm her daughter.

" You killed him. You killed my little brother and you are acting like nothing happened!" She shouted as she turned her gun to Maddie.

"Jazz we didn't kill Danny. Maybe you are having an episode like Aunt Alicia . Don't worry we will help you." Maddie said taking a step forward only for Jazz to shoot at her feet.

"Don't you dare take a step forward. You killed Daniel and then you call me crazy. What were you going to kill me too! Is that why you sent me down here! So I could see it! Were you going to push me into that ...that radioactive thing too?!" Jazz shouted, glaring at her parents.

"You both are going to stand there and not move while we wait for the police to show up." She pulled out her Fenton phone and pressed a red button and waited with a gun moving between her parents both of which looked concerned at their daughter.

"Jasmine this is crazy." Jack said trying to take a step forward only for Jazz to fire at his feet again making him back up.

"Stay back! Yes hello this is Jasmine Fenton. Yes at Fenton Works. I need you to come as quickly as possible. It's for my brother. I think my parents…. please hurry!" She cried as she just dropped her phone next to her. She could barely see her brother at the base of the swirling portal behind her parents.

"Jazz sweetheart tell me what's bothering you." Maddie said quietly her eyes focused and she took the time to really take in the room. It smelled like cooked meat and burnt hair. She could remember that smell. She smelt it years ago back with Vlad Masters in college. Back when Jack made a mistake and put soda in the machine instead of the fuel.

"You killed him." Jazz bit out trying to hold herself together as she kept her parents at gunpoint.

Jack absentmindedly turned back to his machine taking in the glory of it all the swirling green light it gave off everything in the room. The machines, the floor, that mound…

"What is that?" Jack questioned his brow furrowed. "Did that come out of the Portal?"

Jack moved to go around the machine to see what the thing was. Nothing should be able to travel out or in from the portal. Scorched ectoplasm maybe? It certainly smells like a burnt kind of something.

"Hey! Stay back! Stay away from him!" Jasmine yelled moving to keep her dad away from Danny.

Maddie turned to get between her daughter and Jack before her daughter could fire the gun again.

Jack looked concerned as he reached down to touch the burnt thing before he noticed a familiar shape. Gently he nudged it with his boot.

"Danny-boy?" He questioned before the thought started to panic him. This was his son. This was why Jasmine was panicking. He ripped off his gloves and reached down to feel for a pulse.

"Jazz put down that damn gun and grab a med kit. Madalyn get over here and help me!"

Maddie started to slide to the floor as she began to realize what Jasmine had been trying to say all along. That was Danny her baby boy was dead and Jazz blamed them. Jack shouted at her but her mind went into shut down at realizing what was happening. Jack shouted some kind of order to his daughter and Jazz dropped the gun grabbing a kit under one of the tables.

Maddie pulled off her head cover and goggles and went around the readout station. She saw the body on the floor for what it was. He looked so small, so hurt, so fragile and she didn't notice. She was blinded by her invention. Danny her poor, poor baby. She then started to break down reaching towards her son but not moving any further. What had she done for all these years.

Jack looked to his wife in concern hearing her sobs but he had to focus right now. He watched his daughter throw open the case and he grabbed some scissors and started to cut the suit off of his son. While most of the exposed parts of him were burnt the rubber suit took most of the brunt of radiation, electricity, and ectoenergy. Jack had his daughter prepare multiple salves that he was going to cover his sons skin with while he prepared a Saline drip.

"He's not…." Jazz started only to have her dad not even look at her

"He's barely holding on. Next time… if something like this ever happens again. Hit the emergency button. Don't just sit there and hyperventilate." Jack said sternly as he found Danny's vein and set the saline bag on the readout machine. Jack grabbed the different creams and walked his daughter through the instruction of how to gently apply the creams to the burns. Jack watched his daughter help him through the first aid with Danny. His pulse was so faint and thready. No matter what though when this was over they would get Jasmine the help she needed.

Maddie eventually moved over to help Jack and Jazz with Danny at one point helping with CPR when he stopped breathing.

It wasn't long before they heard the sound of cops breaking down the door upstairs and then calling out to the basement. One of the officers pushed the Alert button on their way downstairs. The cops eyes zeroed in on the body they surrounded and started making calls for med-evac to come in collect Daniel. There was a rush of movement as the medical team worked to Stabilize Danny long enough for transport. His pulse was so faint and by the time he was loaded up it was almost midnight. The police wanted answers but the Fenton parents wouldn't leave their daughter and she didn't want to leave Danny alone. It looked like everyone would be going to emergency for now. Jasmine swore when she looked behind herself she could still see the faint image of Danny at the base of the machine curled up with the faint glow of the machine reflecting off his hair so bright it looked white.

-DP-

Danny Phantom opened his eyes to the sound of beeping.

The Ghost Portal was turned on nearby delivering a soft hum its dials giving a faint beeping tone.

He looked next to him and saw the metal bottom half of a table and vaguely saw a pale shape and two green glows. Confused he blinks before standing up. Suddenly phantom pains shoot through him. Wincing he held his side with his white gloves.

Danny glanced at the Portal before scanning the room. "So it's working now." He commented before vaguely thinking about those proper safety things his sister was telling him about earlier.

Another pain shot through his body, this time his chest, but as quickly as it came it stopped.

Scared he yelled , "Mom! Dad! Jazz!" before he rushed upstairs pushing his tired body to move.

"Note to self, listen to Jazz more." He muttered as he ran out of the basement.

He looked around on the empty main floor before he noticed a clock "So its 6:00…. 6:00!" Danny shouted as he rushed upstairs to get changed into his daily outfit. "I can't believe everyone left me!" He stopped for a moment, remembering his last birthday party… 2 years ago. "Actually what am I saying of course I can!" Danny growled out as he threw his shirt and pants on over his new hazmat suit not really caring to pull it off at the moment.

"Do I have enough time to brush my teeth? Well probably…" He rambled running into the bathroom to brush his teeth and wash his face. He quickly splashed some water on his face and looked into the mirror before he froze. In the mirror he saw White. Snow white hair on his head and glowing green eyes looking back at him. He spun around and noticed he was alone in the bathroom, the door was closed as well.

He didn't remember closing the door to the bathroom behind him but then again he didn't even remember opening the door. He touched his face in concern then pulled on his hair wincing when he felt pain.

"I think I hit the superhero threshold." he muttered as he inspected the white and green "Or I have cancer…" he pinched his cheek and immediately felt pain, "It's more than likely cancer." He said cynically before the shock started to fade and the anxiety started to bleed in. "Oh my god I have Cancer!"

Danny started digging through the cupboards looking for Tylenol. After-all Jazz always gave him a couple when he complained about headaches. Maybe they work for Cancer too.

"Wait what was it that Jazz told me…. If something like this happens I need to Call 911. Call emergency and someone will probably take me to the hospital to fix it. Oh god what if I need to be quarantined!" He began to worry.

Wait...When did he get taller? Looking down he saw his feet were not touching the floor and when he went to grab onto the walls his hands went right through them.

"What the Fuck?!" He shouted as all of his clothes fell to the floor, his hazmat suit being the only thing that remained. "What is happening!" he shouted as he phased through the wall and floor and crashed into the kitchen passing through the table, and stopping at the floor. Getting up he ran for the phone to call for help only to have his hand go through the phone and wall multiple times.

"Why can't I touch anything!" He yelled trying to grab the phone again only to see it fall off the hook. Getting mad he went to punch the phone only to blast it out of existence.

That is when the screaming started.

A few moments passed before he paced the kitchen a few times pulling his hair not noticing as he slowly rose upwards, "Ok I can't call for help. So...If help can't come to me. I'll go to it!" Danny turned around and looked to see he was face to face with the top of the hanging lamp. Looking down he could see the floor, the table, the clumps of dus- he fell to the floor screaming.

After a yelp of pain, he pulled himself up and felt another shock go through his body making him spasm. He waited for the shock to pass before he ran out of his house not caring that he ran through the wall. He needed to get to the hospital fuck everything else.

"God I hope no one sees me run though things." he muttered before pushing himself harder not caring when he started to fly and really zoom across the sky.

The hospital was a few blocks away but by flight it seemed a lot shorter. Floating across the street he looked concerned when he saw several police officers outside the building.

"That's not good."

Feeling another shock go through his body he spasmed in the air before falling to the street on top of a car. He left a sizable dent and the car started to wail. This time when the shock passed he didn't really feel the pain of crashing. He looked to inspect the damage to his body when he realized he could see through his hands.

"Oh great, now I can touch things but I can't see myself!" he yelled as he got up and ran past the people going to inspect the car. As he ran into the building he froze when he heard shouting and what sounded like his parents.

"Get your hands off of me! I didn't do anything! That's my son!" Jack Fenton yelled as 5 officers tried to drag him down the hall towards the entrance. Several people were whispering to each other.

Danny stood next to some nurses when his father was finally dragged out of the building

"Look at that monster." One of the nurses spoke. Danny turned to look at him. He had seen some angry people before but this look on the nurses face was on a whole different level. His face was twisted more than Dash's even on one of his worst days.

"What's going on?" Another whispered getting close to the station the nurses surrounded.

"I heard he killed his son in some sort of experiment gone wrong." Another woman whispered as she watched Jack get loaded into a cruiser

"No really? I heard he was crazy but that can't be right." the second woman said turning around.

"It is the doctors are still trying to resuscitate but they don't know how long it was since he stopped breathing. His sister is a complete wreck and one of the other nurses ordered a tranquilizer for her." The first nurse spoke matter of factly.

"What about the mother?"

There was a long broken scream from down the hall before two officers could be seen practically lifting his mother as they took her away as well. She looked so broken. "No! Danny! I can't leave my son!" Maddalyn Fenton screamed.

Danny wasn't sure what to make of his parents being carted off by the cops. But another spasm flew through his body and he fell backwards into the nurse's station. Papers went flying around as the nurses scrambled to right everything.

Danny couldn't wait anymore running down the hall he tired to listen for the sound of his sister but he didn't need to look very far. There she was in a curtained off room watching as doctors putting away paddles, a dull beep echoing out from the room.

"Am I… Dead? Danny asked softly as he watched the doctors give up on him. Watched his sister fall to the floor broken and crying as a nurse helped her to a chair. Danny slowly moved over to his body as doctors walked through him.

"We will leave you alone for just a moment, we need to make a few calls." The nurse walked out and curtained off the room

Danny looked at Jazz as she cried and honestly didn't know what to feel, so he just fell back to his usual reaction, ignore it till it goes away.

Danny looked over to his body and got up walking to it. He looked barely recognizable. He could make out burns all over his chest and face and hair singed and burnt. There was a look of torn skin in some places when he was possibly manhandled. He reached out to touch his body. It was so surreal when he heard a gasp he turned to see his sister looking at him in shock.

"D...danny?"

Danny stumbled onto his body and felt like he was being sucked in.

Beep...Beep...Beep

Danny Fenton opened his eyes to the sound of beeping and quickly gasped for air in panic.

AN: Responding time:

Guest, and Re-Reader: I'm glad you both enjoyed what we wrote hope you also enjoyed this one :D

sKaEtrgrL: Thank you for the fast response to the chapter, I hope this has met your standards so far!

Lack of Tact: Hey old buddy old pal old friend! I hope this "dark premise" didn't scare off anyone, but really Danny Phantom sorta is built around the idea of the main character being... Half Dead. Making a somewhat more serious take on it we decided to see where it would lead :P

Everyone: Keep in mind this is a Drama/Humor, and I will NOT be pulling angst and darkness around every corner as a joke. I am not that type of person and neither is my sister. If there are any dark or cruel things ahead I will be sure to put a warning before hand.

Anyway If anyone can guess what the "neat idea" that inspired this story is, do review and let me know, Not being secretive or anything, but im curious if anyone has got it now that Danny has had his time in the spotlight post-powers.

Once again thank you all for reading this, please comment if you find any mistakes or message me directly :)