Here's the next chapter! So, NCIS is going into the Ghost Zone. What is going to happen? For those who are worried about Tony, the first part is in his point of view.

I don't own Danny Phantom or NCIS

Chapter 6: Verdant Vortex

Solid ground. That was what Tony missed the most right now. One second, he was sitting on it and enjoying a ham and cheese sandwich. Next thing he knows, he's floating in a vast, black and green space, trying desperately to reach something to stand on.

"Where the hell am I?" he asked out loud. Silence answered. Two green blobs rushed past him, screaming. Tony sighed.

"Hello!" he called out. "Anybody here?!"

"Well, well. What do I have here?"

Tony winced at the loud, deep voice that sounded behind him, surprised that he had been heard. But then, he froze. I recognize that voice, he thought, really wishing that he hadn't.

He turned to find the flame-haired man—Skulker, he had remembered— smirking at him with the palm of a large gauntlet pointed at him. The center of the palm was pulsating with blue energy and, with horror, Tony saw that it was about to fire. He raised his hands to shield himself.

Skulker, however, lowered the gauntlet and peered at Tony. "Wait a minute," he boomed, "I remember you! You're that…agent…from that place where the whelp was hiding."

Tony laughed feebly, "Scary gauntlet you've got there," keeping his eyes trained on the weapon, "And it's…nice…to know I'm memorable."

"What are you doing here, human? What are you doing in the Ghost Zone?"

"The Ghost Zone?" Tony asked, lowering his hands, "Where's that?"

Skulker snickered. "You don't know where you are?"

Tony shook his head. The Ghost Zone? He thought. The name was familiar, he'd heard Skulker say it himself; it definitely wasn't anywhere on Earth that he knew of. He looked around him and sighed.

Skulker wasn't done with him. "Where is the Ghost Boy?"

This again? Tony thought exasperatedly. "Look, Ironman, I don't know who you're talking about."

Skulker frowned. "Useless AND lost. I have no more use for you."

With that, ignoring Tony's cries, he flew away.

Tony sighed. If this really was the Ghost Zone, then he didn't think that he'd be welcome, especially since he wasn't dead. The thought sent a chill down his spine: what if he was dead? The 'Ghost Zone' was pretty explanatory. It was a place where ghosts lived. What if he was a ghost?

"This is very Lovely Bones." He thought to himself, trying to calm down. Making movie references, even to nobody, always calmed him down. But not today.

Tony was just about to try and follow Skulker, just to have his questions answered, when he heard it. A deep, evil sounding voice that made Tony pull his gun to face the danger.

"Well, well. What do we have here?"

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"Woah."

'Woah' was right. Gibbs was speechless; a million different ideas about what was on the other side of the portal had run through his head, but once they were dragged through, what he saw wouldn't have crossed his mind in a million years.

Black and green emptiness was the first thing that he saw. They flew through nothingness and yet, they weren't falling. Danny, just ahead of them, flew them past floating rocks. If he hadn't seen the random purple doors, he would have thought that they were in outer space.

"Where are we?" McGee gasped.

"The Ghost Zone." Danny said simply. "It's a…parallel dimension to Earth."

"Creepy." Jazz said. Her brother looked back, surprised, until he remembered that his sister had never been in the Ghost Zone before.

"Now," Danny said, looking around, "If I were Tony and I ended up here, what would I do?"

"Scream like a little girl." McGee suggested, smiling at the thought.

"Call for help." Ziva said, elbowing her colleague in the gut. "But who would help him? I don't see anyone or…anything."

"Yeah, well… Let's just hope it wasn't Walker." Danny said. His friends nodded in agreement.

"Who would help you if you were stuck, Phantom?" Gibbs asked, trying to help. He usually didn't like being second in command to most things, but if Phantom knew what he was doing…

"If I was stuck and needed help…" Danny trailed off, thinking. Then without warning, he pulled out a large map. Gibbs could see that it was hand-drawn. "Clockwork."

"You really think he can help you?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, I mean, that's who I went to during the whole ecto-acne thing."

"Ecto-acne…?" McGee began to ask.

"You don't want to know." Sam said as Danny pulled them along.

He didn't get very far.

"Well, I knew that human was lying." A voice laughed from behind the group. Danny turned and formed a ghost ray. Gibbs couldn't help but be impressed as he remembered what McGee had said earlier: He turned moments before we noticed him for ourselves. Gibbs could see that Danny had reacted just as quickly as he would have.

Gibbs gasped when he saw the adversary though. A tall man, completely covered in weapons, was staring down at him.

"Skulker!" Danny shouted at the ghost, "What do you want."

"What I always want, Whelp."

Skulker shot a net at Danny, narrowly missing him.

"I don't have time for this, Skulker." Danny said.

"Wait!" Ziva said, turning to Skulker. "You said that a human was lying. Who do you mean?"

"I remembered him from that building where the ghost child was hidden. I don't know his name but he complimented my weaponry, calling me Ironman."

"That's definitely Tony." Ziva said. She turned back to Danny. "Tony is a huge movie guy. His last words will be, 'I've seen this movie.'"

Danny smiled briefly before turning to face Skulker. "Where did you see him?"

"Why do I care? I left him a long time ago."

Skulker lunged at Danny. Gibbs instinctively pulled his gun and shot at Skulker, who wasn't expecting it. The bullet bounced off him, but it was enough to make him stop.

"And, who are you?" he said, getting in Gibbs face. Gibbs was unperturbed.

"Leroy Gibbs," Gibbs said, "And you're going to tell us where Dinozzo is."

"Hmmm…" Skulker said, "Nice comerade, Whelp. But I've got better things to do than talk."

Skulker flew off.

Gibbs glared at the back of the retreating ghost, mentally putting him on his 'enemies' list. Beside him, McGee was shaking his head.

"If Tony had to deal with that," he laughed, "I can only imagine how the conversation went."

Next, they're going to see Clockwork. How is the Master of Time going to help them? How was the chapter? Good? Bad? Dull? Sorry if it was one of the last two. If there's anything I can change, I will.

Till next time,

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