HI! This is MY last chapter, because I have no idea what to do after this. ~

Everything hurt. That was the first thing Danny registered after becoming lucid again. He opened his eyes and then blinked against the harsh light. He opened them again, squinting until they adjusted.

Everything was...Green. Why was everything green? Didn't the world have colors? And why was it so...Swirly?

Then Danny remembered. He panicked, pulling himself through the green, not caring that that made him hurt more, not remembering that his friends were in there too. He lay on the ground, panting, unable to get up to move. He closed his eyes. They hurt. Everything hurt.

His eyes shot open as he heard a low groan over the sound of the portal running. Suddenly he remembered his friends. Danny got painfully to his feet, not caring that he hurt and that he'd have to drag to people through the stupid portal, and walked unsteadily back through.

He winced at the sting, but his eyes sought out two broken forms. "Sam? Tucker?" He asked, unnecessarily. They obviously weren't conscious. Danny looked at them, worried, in the dim lighting, but he couldn't make much out. He grabbed Sam first, dragging her more than anything. As soon as she was out, he headed back into the cursed portal, getting Tucker this time.

When he finally dragged himself and Tucker out of the portal, Danny collapsed, exhausted. He shut his eyes. He just wanted to...Rest...

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Something swam into focus. It looked vaguely like a head, except it was white. Someone was shaking him. Why was someone shaking him? Danny shook his head, trying to get rid of the fuzziness. He thought he heard Sam saying his name, except it sounded fuzzy.

Suddenly everything snapped into focus, and Danny staggered backwards a bit, or at least he would have had he been standing. Someone was, indeed, shaking him, and it looked a lot like Sam, except Sam didn't have white hair and neon blue eyes.

"Why is your hair like that?" Danny blurted. He could see, now, that the Sam-look-alike looked worried. "I don't know!" She said. "Yours is white, too. Here, look!" She practically shoved a handheld mirror in his face. Danny blinked at his reflection.

He didn't really take in the fact that he now somehow had white hair and neon green eyes. "What happened?" Danny asked. He was starting to panic. Sam looked at him, obviously worried herself, and said,

"I don't know. Tucker and I woke up a few minutes ago, outside the portal, and we looked like this." She gestured to her face. "I don't know, Danny! I don't know what happened!"

Despite his own mounting panic, Danny said, patting her shoulder, "Shh, Sam. It's gonna be alright. We'll be o.."

That was when he fell right through her.

By the way, Shadowfox. Snowblitz wrote this chapter and the first one. After this, it's going to be taken over by JuneLuxray.

Neither of us own DP. Butch Hartman does.