Here's the next chapter! So, Tony is missing and a portal is open. What happened to Tony? What is Danny going to do about this? Keep reading to find out!

I don't own Danny Phantom or NCIS

Chapter 5: Rescue

Tucker and Sam were still in the interrogation room with Gibbs when Sam's phone went off.

"Can I take this?" she asked in her most irritated voice. They had been going at this for at least twenty minutes and, frankly, she had had it with Gibbs' questioning.

Gibbs raised an eyebrow at her tone. "In here."

Sam drew her lips and turned away. To her relief, it was Danny.

"Hey Da-." She stopped short at his hurried voice. Something was wrong.

As she listened to Danny explain what happened she paled slightly. "Okay…what do you want us to do?...We'll get there."

She snapped her phone shut and motioned for Tucker to follow her.

"Where are you two going?" Gibbs said. What Sam had heard sounded like an emergency, but they were still being questioned. He couldn't just let them leave.

"We're…going to look for Danny." Tucker said innocently, "Boy, has he been in the bathroom for this long?"

Gibbs wasn't buying it. "No, really. And where is Danny?"

Sam rolled her eyes, "Let's go Tuck." She grabbed the African-American boy's arm and rushed out of the room.

By the time Gibbs had gotten up and looked for them, the two teens were gone. He swore as he entered the bullpen. "Ziva! McGee!"

"Yes boss." The two agents immediately rose from their seats, seeing the fury in their boss' eyes.

"We've got two rogue kids, probably leaving the building. We need to follow them."

"Tucker and Sam?" McGee asked, confused, "They ran?"

"Yes!" Gibbs replied irritably, throwing on his jacket. "Let's go."

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"There they are!"

Tucker and Sam were still running. They didn't notice that Ziva , McGee, and Gibbs were tailing them and Gibbs wanted it to stay that way. What if two kids they found on the street were in cahoots with a criminal of theirs?

The children stepped into a hotel first.

"This is where the Fentons are staying." McGee informed Gibbs from the backseat.

"What are they doing here?"

"No idea," Ziva said, "Although they didn't look like they were staying."

She was right. Minutes later, the two children emerged and began running again. But this time, they were accompanied by a third, older child.

"That's Jazz Fenton!" McGee said in surprise as Gibbs began driving again. "What's she doing?"

"She's carrying a pack." Ziva noted.

What were these kids doing? Gibbs wondered. To involve Sam and Tucker and Jazz and…

The realization came upon him so suddenly, he almost stepped on the brakes.

Danny. That was the last name that had come to mind, yet it was the first person Gibbs had been suspicious of. All of his disappearances…Where has he been going? What did he call Sam about to make her run? Whatever these kids were up to, Gibbs was sure that Danny was a ringleader all of this; no doubt about it.

Surprisingly, the three children led the team to the alleyway—back to the crime scene.

"What are they doing here?" Gibbs said.

In the alleyway, the three teens stopped. "Are you sure he's here?" Jazz asked. When Tucker and Sam had barged into their hotel room in frenzy, Jazz knew that something had happened to her little brother.

A familiar face popped out of the gloom. "You got away?!"

"Danny?!" Sam, Tucker and Jazz shouted, greatly relieved. They all rushed to hug him.

"Relax guys," Danny said, pointing to the sandwich on the ground, "I'm not the one in trouble. The portal's closed."

"So how are we going to get to the Ghost Zone?" Tucker asked.

"I don't-." he froze, seeing something just behind their heads.

"NCIS! Stay where you are!"

Sam and Tucker's hearts dropped as Jazz squealed in surprise beside them. They had been followed? Various clicks alerted them that guns had been drawn as well.

"How do you know Danny Phantom?" Gibbs demanded, looking at Sam's defiant face. He moved into the alley.

"Leave us alone!" Danny said, stepping in front of his friends and sister. Now all guns were trained on him. "I don't have time for this!"

"What are you doing, then?" Ziva asked.

"Nothing you can help with!"

Help with? Gibbs thought, surprised. "Why would we want to help you?"

Danny sighed and rubbed his temples. "Do you, or do you not, notice anybody missing?"

Ziva dropped her gun a fraction as she gasped. "Tony!"

Now that Gibbs looked around, there was no sign of the familiar, cocky grin. His agent was MIA.

"He's trapped…somewhere." Danny said, "And we've got no way to-."

He stopped as a spark flashed between him and the NCIS agents. As both him and Gibbs stepped back, a small portal cut through the air. A flash of black obscured it for a second and then Danny found himself being shoved to the ground hard.

"Woah!" he was about to go intangible when he realized who it was. Relief flooded through his veins. "Wulf!"

Gibbs stood stock still, completely flabbergasted; one minute, he's talking to Phantom and the next, his suspect is being tackled by a dog that jumped out of thin air. It didn't look like a normal dog either; much larger and seemingly more vicious. McGee yelped and released the safety on his gun, just in case the dog jumped at them. Ziva also yelped, but more in recognition than fright.

"This is the creature that talked to Tony and I."

Wulf took one look at the NCIS team, with their guns still poised, and tried to run. Danny, however, grabbed onto his tail.

"Your're scaring him." Danny said. To Wulf, he asked. "What are you doing here? Kio vi fari…here?"

"Helpi mi." Wulf growled, "Mi fari ne iri dorso al la malliberejo!"

Wulf may have taught Danny a few basic words in Esperanto, but Danny was far from fluent. He turned to Tucker for help.

"He says he doesn't want to go back to the prison. No doubt he means Walker's jail."

"So Walker is after Wulf again. And if he's determined," Danny turned to the NCIS team. "He won't care who he takes prisoner along the way."

"And this Walker guy," Gibbs asked, "Is he…?"

"A rule-obsessed ghost. I've had to deal with him before."

"I wouldn't be surprised."

Danny turned back to his sister and friends, then back to the team. "How many times do I have to tell you? I'm not the bad guy."

"So, who are you?" Gibbs asked.

"Just…someone who can help."

"How can we trust you?" Ziva asked. Her suspicion of the white haired boy was growing with every second.

"You don't have to trust me," Danny said, echoing his words from a similar situation, "Just work with me."

Before the agents could reply, Danny turned to Wulf, who had been cowering behind him, eying the guns suspiciously.

"Wulf? We need to get to the ghost-zone."

Wulf's eyes widened and he shook his head vehemently.

"I promise we'll keep you safe from Walker." Danny said, "We have a…friend in danger and we need you to make a portal to the Ghost Zone."

Sam, Tucker and Jazz stepped forward.

"Hang on," Gibbs said, "There's no way I'd let four kids go on a rescue mission.

Danny looked back at Gibb's determined expression and sighed. "We've got this covered. You guys don't know anything about the Ghost Zone; we do."

"Tony is our agent!" Gibbs said firmly, "If he's being rescued, we need to be there for him." He looked at Sam. "If Danny was in trouble, you wouldn't just let some random people help him without being there, right?"

Gibbs had struck the right chord; Sam bit her lip and looked at Danny anxiously. Gibbs could see that she was trying to imagine the scenario. After a few seconds, she shook her head.

"No, I wouldn't."

"Good then." Gibbs turned to Wulf. "Um…"

Wulf raised his claws and Gibbs raised his gun again, expecting an attack. But Wulf slashed the air in front of Gibbs and a small portal appeared. Gibbs reached out to touch it, unsure.

"Wait," Jazz spoke up for the first time, "We don't want to get separated, and there was no way we could get the Specter Speeder here so…" she produced a long cord that glowed green. "We all tie ourselves to Danny."

Danny allowed his sister to tie the rope around his waist. She did the same to everybody in the group. "Wulf, you can stay here if you want." She said politely.

Danny took a deep breath. "Are you sure you guys want to come?"

Gibbs, McGee, and Ziva nodded their heads. Gibbs was beginning to see that he was wrong about Danny and, although he wouldn't admit it, he was deeply impressed. Danny and his friends didn't seem to be more than fourteen or fifteen and yet, here they were, fearlessly preparing themselves to save someone they had met only days ago.

Danny Phantom, Gibbs thought, looking at the white haired boy quizzically, What are you?

There you are guys! Did you like it? I didn't know how this chapter would be received and I was reluctant to write it this way. Now the entire team is about to venture into the Ghost Zone to look for Tony. How will NCIS react to the Ghost Zone? Please keep reading to find out!

Till next time,

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