I do not claim ownership of the cartoon Danny Phantom. Get your facts straight here people.


"Dang it! This isn't working!" Tucker yelled. He and Sam had been trying to open the portal for hours now. There was no way to hack into the system and unlock the portal. After coming to this conclusion, Tucker had resorted to guessing the password that Danny could have used. So far though, he wasn't getting anywhere.

"We have to keep trying." Sam said. "We can't give up. We have to find him!"

Tucker glanced at the clock and sighed. It was already past midnight and they had school in the morning.

"It's getting late. We can try again tomorrow." Tucker said dejectedly. "It's going to suck explaining this to all our teachers."

"Explaining what exactly?" Sam asked. "Danny left. All they need to know is that he's coming back. Even if we have to drag him back ourselves."

Tucker sighed. He was giving up hope of opening the portal and they still hadn't been able to find the boomerang. Danny didn't want to be found, and it seemed clear that he wasn't going to make it easy to find him.

"Let's just go home and sleep for a bit. We can meet up here again before school and figure everything out from there. We need to talk to Jazz and see what the Fentons are planning to do about this before we start mentioning Danny's disappearance to anyone."

Sam was silent but she nodded, showing that she understood that what Tuck had said made sense. The two friends slowly walked up the basement stairs and popped out in the kitchen. They turned off the lights and as they left, used the spare key Danny had given them years ago to lock the front door behind them.

The pair walked in silence in the moonlit night. The teens had long ago dispelled any fears of the dark or getting attacked on the streets. There were no humans villains in Amity Park anymore, only ghosts, and they had been fighting them for years. They made it safe into their homes and both unsuccessfully tried to get some sleep.


The next morning rolled around and true to their word, Tucker and Sam met up at Fentonworks at 6:30AM and rand the doorbell. They had to wait a few minutes but then they finally heard the door lock click and they were greeted with the sight of a teary-eyed, messy-haired, pajama-wearing Jazz Fenton.

"Hi," Jazz said softly before she swayed from foot to foot a few times uncomfortably. She stood aside and let the two younger teens inside. "I know you guys where in the lab last night. Did you find any leads as to who took Danny?"

Sam and Tucker shared a sad look before Tucker decided to be the one to answer her.

"Nobody took him, Jazz," he began in the calmest voice he could muster. "Danny left on his own. You saw the note. He doesn't want to be found. He's blocked every way we know how to track him, including the portal. I've already tried everything I know but there's no way to open it."

"YOU CAN"T JUST GIVE UP!" Jazz screamed at him. "How dare you even THINK of giving up? I thought you were supposed to be his best friend!"

"Woah, woah, woah!" Sam desperately tried to calm down the already upset and now very angry older girl. "Who said anything about giving up? Not me. Not Tucker. We can still find him, it's just going to be a lot harder than it would be with the Fenton portal still open. I don't know if you remember or not, but your parent's portal isn't the only way into the ghost zone."

Tucker and Jazz just stared at Sam for a moment before the lightbulbs turned on in their brains. They looked at each other and then back to Sam again, a shocked look on their faces, silently asking if she meant what they thought she did.

"So who's up for ditching school and breaking into a fruitloop's mansion instead?"


Hope you enjoyed. Next chapter will for sure be back with Danny. I'll update probably in a month or two. Maybe. It all depends on how I'm feeling about it. Next chapter will probably be a bit longer than this one.

This chapter was posted: 3/14/2014

~Red