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Legend:

"Someone is talking."

'Someone is thinking.'

"A technique is being used."

Chapter Two:

Everything was bathed in darkness when Danny finally became aware of himself. At first thought, he had died and that this was a limbo of some kind, only to realize that his eyes were closed.

Danny groaned as he opened his eyes slowly before he recoiled from the sudden, blinding light that invaded them. Once the pain in his eyes subsided, he slowly began to open and close his eyes so that they could get use to the rooms light. When he could open his eyes without having the light blind him, Danny tried to sit up on his own. This proved to be a very bad idea.

He almost shouted from the sheer pain of his attempted movement caused but he clamped his jaws shut, unwilling to submit to the pain once again.

"What…" Danny began to say only to cut himself off due to the sound of his own voice; why did his voice sound so hoarse? "What happened to me...?"

"Danny!"

Danny managed to turn his head to the side despite the pain so that his cheek rested on the cool tiles of the lab. He saw that both Sam and Tucker were approaching him, their eyes filled with worry mixed in with an incredible relief.

When they finally reached him they carefully grabbed his arms before slowly, as his body still felt like a buffalo had run over him, helping him into a nearby chair. There was a brief silence as neither Sam nor Tucker wanted to speak about what had happened and Danny was too busy trying to regain his lost energy. Eventually, Danny managed to work up enough energy to formulate the question that had been plaguing his mind.

"… What happened?"

Tucker looked surprised at his question, sparing a brief glance to Sam, before he turned his attention back to Danny. "Dude, you don't remember what happened?"

Danny raised one eyebrow at the tone in his friend's voice but answered nonetheless "No."

"Oh." Tucker said as he seemed to be taken aback by Danny's selective amnesia. Tucker was silent for a couple of moments before he finally thought of a response to Danny's question. "You went… into the Ghost Portal and I… I think you fixed it."

Then Tucker found something suddenly found something extremely fascinating on a nearby wall as he would not look Danny in the eyes. "You started… screaming… after you turned it on. Sam and I… we tried to turn it off but… we couldn't… the plug wouldn't come out."

"We kept trying to pull the plug or disconnect the cables…" Sam admitted with a minor shake of her head, looking close to tears. "Nothing worked… And then, when we were about to give up, you were suddenly thrown from the portal and landed over there…"

Danny nodded. He suddenly was able to recall getting into the hazmat suit, the mortification of finding his dad's sticker, telling his friends about wondering about the Ghost Portal, and going into it. He remembered a section of the portal giving away under his hand, that must've been the on button, before his world had been consumed in pure agony.

"Dude... the Ghost Portal it… it changed you." Tucker continued after a moment of uncomfortable silence.

Danny looked at Tucker confusedly, "What? Changed… what do you mean by 'Changed'?"

Neither Sam nor Tucker responded Danny's question. Instead Sam removed a small mirror from a nearby counter top and gave it to Danny. She then quickly backed up from Danny all the while looking away guiltily.

With trepidation in his movements Danny raised the mirror and caught sight of his new appearance. His grip slackened as his eyes widened in shock, the mirror slipping from beneath his fingers. Time seemed to slow as the mirror fell onto the floor and shattered into hundreds of pieces

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(Meanwhile)

Sitting on his throne within his throne room, Sōsuke Aizen awaited the arrival of the four he had called to arrive.

Earlier, a wave of spiritual energy had suddenly watched over his fortress—Las Noches—alerting all of those within it because of the sheer strength this energy possessed. Upon closer inspection, this energy resembled that of a Hollow being transformed into an Arrancar, which was most curious.

Most of the Hollows transforming into Arrancar naturally, as opposed to him using the Hōgyoku to do it, had never displayed such power. This had confused and alerted some of the Arrancar under his command though, to him, such power only intrigued him.

"Dios Aizen."

Upon hearing this, Aizen looked down from his throne to see that his Tercera Espada—Tier Harribel— and her three Fracción had arrived. The woman and her three servants now bowed at him.

"I have summoned you and your Fracción here because of that spiritual energy that I'm sure you all sensed minutes ago." Aizen informed with a faint smile, receiving a nod. "I need you to find the newborn Arrancar that released this energy… despite the fact that it is no longer in Huceo Mundo."

One of Harribel's Fracción looked up in surprise, looked about to speak, but a warning glance from her master stopped her short.

Aizen nodded towards Harribel, "Thank you, Harribel." He smirked when he saw the Fracción flush before looking down in shame. "As I was saying, I need you to find this Arrancar." He leaned forward before bringing his fist to rest underneath his chin. "You four will do everything within your power to recruit this Arrancar to our cause and bring it home."

"It will be as you command Dios Aizen." Harribel responded with a bow. "We will leave as soon we get the proper equipment from Szayel's Science Division."

"Of course. You are dismissed." Aizen said with a wave of his hand.

With that obvious dismissal, Harribel nodded once before she and her Fracción vanished with brief static-like sounds.

Looking at the spot in which the four women had once stood, Aizen leaned back into his chair. After a bit of silence Aizen moved his hand off the arm rest of his throne and tapped an unseen button on it. With a brief burst of right, a hidden compartment opened up, revealing a blue orb in a hexagonal case.

Aizen gently picked up the object and brought the object up to his eye level so he could stare into its other-worldly depths. As he stared into the orb, Aizen silently contemplated when the day would come when those four women's—and all of the numerous others beneath him—usefulness would come to an end.

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(A few minutes later—With Danny, Sam, and Tucker)

After his initial reaction towards his new appearance, it had taken at least ten minutes for Danny to calm himself down. Calmed, he then requested another mirror, whereupon Tucker got him another one, a little bit wary.

Danny looked at himself in the mirror with a sense of both amazement and entire body had changed from what he had once known to something completely different. He was now a slender, yet fairly muscular, male of average height with pale skin, short and messy silver hair, and bright-green eyes. He was wearing a white jacket, a pair of weird white pants that were tied with a black sash, and white-colored straw sandals.

He also had a white choker around his neck that was made out of some bone-like material. Danny glanced down at his hand was shocked to find a strange hole in the middle of his right hand. Oddly enough the hole was perfevtly smooth and didn't hurt at all. To complete his new look Danny was shocked to find that he had a katana tied to his sash. Danny gave Tucker back the mirror before he really examined his new weapon.

It was a beautiful sword with a rectangular, light-green tsuba that had a small snowflake-like tassel tied to it. The tsuba itself had a large, silver-colored snowflake that branched out from the center of it and glinted in the light as Danny turned it around.

After putting his katana back into his sash, Danny felt himself slump into his chair, his shoulders and arms going limp. He wondered how he would explain this to his parents, and how they would react to it. In the back of his mind Danny also wondered how the ghost portal could've changed him so much.

"…. It's not that bad Danny…"

Danny looked up to see that Sam was walking towards him with an unreadable expression on her face. When she reached him, she reached down and gave him a much-needed hug. He embraced her back once the shock had died out, relishing in the warmth as he tried to calm himself down.

If Danny had been paying attention, he would have noticed the light-green light forming at his fingertips. The light then spread from his fingers in a 360 wave, washing over everything within a 50 meter range. The light "wave" then returned to Danny, causing him to open his eyes with an audible "snap".

When his eyes had been closed, he had been able to "see" something truly unexpected. He had seen the world in black-and-white, with the inside of his friends' bodies seeming to be made out of vivid blue-green flames. His parents on the other hand, sitting in the kitchen above the basement, appeared to be made out of dull blue-colored flames.

Danny immediately pushed Sam away from his body in a panic, as he could not explain what he had just seen. It didn't make any sense and terrified him to no end.

"Danny, are you alright?" Sam asked, concern in her voice. "What's wrong?"

Sam was hurt that her friend had just pushed her away after she had attempted to comfort him. If he hadn't wanted her to do that, why didn't he just say so? Why did he allow her to hug him, only then to push her away seconds later? Upon realizing just what he had done, Danny felt horrible. He had pushed Sam away from him and hurt her in the process. She didn't know what he had seen, and must've been confused and hurt as to why he had pushed her away.

"I'm sorry, Sam… It's just that… I-I saw something… I don't know how…my eyes were closed…" Danny rambled as he shook his head around, confused and frightened. "Wha… What's wrong with me?"

"Nothing's wrong with you dude." Tucker assured consolingly, getting closer to Danny. "Just calm down… and tell us what's wrong."

Danny nodded shakily, "I saw… e-everything was in… black-and-white. Except for you guys… you were made out of flames… teal flames."

Unnoticed by Danny, both Sam and Tucker shared a glance with each other. In that glance they seemed to have a silent conversation with each other. Sam then nodded slightly, urging Tucker to start talking.

"Did you see anything else, Danny?" Tucker asked. "Yeah… I saw my parents in the kitchen… they were made out of flames to… but, they were light blue instead of teal." Danny answered as he started to calm down, before looking at his friends imploringly. "How could I have seen that?"

Sam bit her lip, "Maybe… maybe you saw what Ghosts can see."

"Sam!" Tucker said in exasperation.

"I'm sorry Tucker, but it fits!" Sam retorted "Danny seems to have gained the body of a Ghost, so why wouldn't he be able to see like one as well?"

"Danny didn't need—" Tucker began angrily.

Before Tucker could finish his sentence, he stopped when he heard a loud "crack". Sam and Tucker then heard Danny groan and turned to face him, their previous argument forgotten for now. Danny's skin was cracking, slowly making his skin resemble an elaborate spider's web.

"Danny!"

It was then that Danny's skin started to peel off, becoming silver-colored ash, before it dissipated into the air. This was happening so fast the silver ash soon became a cyclone, with Sam and Tucker on the other side of it.

Both of the two teenagers were praying to every God that they knew of that their friend would be okay. They didn't know why Danny's skin had cracked, or why it had turned into silver ash but they began to pray harder. They didn't want their friend to die so soon after escaping death just minutes ago.

After a minute or two, the cyclone of ash started to slow down before it dissipated altogether. Sam and Tucker were relieved to see that Danny was still alive, and looking like he had before he had gone into the portal.

"Guys… I think we have a problem."

A/N: Author's Note: Well, that's it. Tell me how you guys liked it or how I could improve it. As always, flames will be ignored.

This chapter was updated as of 5/22/2012.