Sorry I haven't updated in a while, guys. School happened. I won't bore you by telling you how busy I've been but let's just say that I'm REALLY glad spring break is in a few days. My birthday was also last Thursday and I wanted to write another chapter to celebrate that.

I don't own Danny Phantom or NCIS

Chapter 13: We Are

Phantom rubbed the back of his neck in nervousness. It was that motion, that tiny reflex, which put all the pieces in place. There was only one other person who he'd recently seen do the exact same thing and, mentally putting the faces side by side, he realized why Phantom had seemed familiar. Why Danny was always disappearing, only for Phantom to show up. Why Danny so adamantly defended Phantom in front of his parents.

Danny Fenton and Danny Phantom were identical. He didn't know how, but he knew that, somehow, they were the same person. When Phantom turned to him and they made eye contact, Gibbs could see that he was right.

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Danny stared at Gibbs, speechless.

'How did he know?' he thought. Tony had said that he had changed while he was being shocked, but he didn't think he had changed far. Gibbs must have seen it too and put two and two together.

"You're Danny Fenton." Gibbs repeated.

But this time, it wasn't a question. Danny looked at his friends. Sam and Tucker were silently shaking their heads. Jazz was just watching him. McGee, Tony, and Ziva were looking at him with curiosity in their eyes, waiting for him to do or say something.

"Um," Danny felt like he was is a spotlight. He looked back up at Gibbs, "Well…yeah…"

"You can change."

Another statement.

Danny sighed, closed his eyes, and let the rings of light wash over him.

Gibbs' eyes widened slightly as he watched Phantom transform right in front of him. He heard his agents gasp as snow-white hair turned black, piercing green eyes turned blue, and his HAZMAT suit was replaced by a T-shirt and jeans. Fourteen year old Danny Fenton stood where the ghost-child once was.

"I, um," Danny raised his hands to his neck, "I guess this explains a lot of things, huh?"

Tony's mouth hung open, "But…but how did—? What?!"

"How did you do that?" McGee asked.

But before Danny could answer them, an alarm sounded, echoing from deep inside the prison. Trouble was coming.

"No time for questions," Sam said, rushing to close Jazz's bag and tie the rope around her waist, "We're going to have ghosts on us if we don't move quickly.

"Right," Danny nodded curtly before quickly turning back into Phantom, "Ready when you guys are."

Just as they finished tying themselves to Danny, he spotted five ghost guards flying towards them.

"We've got to go, now!"

They were already in the air by the time the ghosts reached the gates.

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They had not anticipated this.

Walker's guards were pursuing them with a vengeance and Danny was having difficulty trying to steer the group away from them while continuously dodging their attacks. Blasts of ectoplasm shot past them. The agents, who still had their ray guns, twisted around to fire back at the ghosts but, despite hitting them multiple times, they just kept coming back.

"We need to find somewhere to hide!" Jazz shouted up at her brother, "You can't keep flying forever!"

"No, we need to get to—Ahhh!"

Danny had been hit. He felt the white hot pain as an ecto-blast hit his outstretched arm, cutting down the length of it, tearing the arm of his suit. They began to lose altitude as Danny instinctively used his other hand to clutch at the wound. Gibbs saw green goo, mixed with flecks of red, drip between his fingers.

"Danny!" Gibbs shouted before turning back to shoot at the ghosts again. Their descent made it harder to aim properly. Thankfully, the ghosts stopped moving, turned around and flew off.

'Well that was odd.' Gibbs thought, 'Why would they just stop pursuing us.'

He turned back around to see that Danny was trying to regain control of his flight. He steered them into an icy tunnel. Did they somehow make it back to the Far Frozen? Were Walker's guards afraid to go any further? Thinking of Frostbite, Gibbs couldn't help but wonder if they were afraid of dealing with the yetis.

He looked down as the tunnel opened up to see many small figures on the ground, which grew larger as they got closer. Soon, they were close enough for Gibbs to see that the figure at the front of the pack was wearing a blue sash. Frostbite.

The King of the Far Frozen rushed forwards as Danny stumbled upon landing, wincing. His arm wasn't bleeding badly anymore, but the wound still stung. The others fell in a heap, but quickly rose to their feet.

"You are injured, O Great One! You need treatment!"

Danny waved Frostbite off, "I'll be fine in a bit."

"Are you sure?" Gibbs couldn't help but agree with Frostbite, "That cut looks bad."

"I'm sure," Danny insisted, "It'll heal in a second."

"You have returned with one more in your company?" Frostbite said, as he noticed Tony standing at the back of the group.

"Who's the abominable snowman?" Tony whispered to Sam, who was closest to him.

"Frostbite," she whispered back, "King of the Far Frozen. I wouldn't call him a snowman though, if I were you."

Tony stepped forward hesitantly and stuck out a hand, "Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo. I'm a friend of Phantom's."

Frostbite nodded, but did not shake, "Nice to meet you, Anthony. A friend of our Savior is a friend of ours. Welcome to the Far Frozen."

Tony turned to Danny questioningly but Danny shook his head, smiling. "Later," he said, before turning back to Frostbite.

"We came back to return your Infimap," Danny said, handing over the artifact, "It helped us…kind of."

"Glad we could assist you, O Great One," Frostbite said, bowing to Danny, "Is there any way we can assist you further?" Frostbite glanced at Danny's arm again.

"Well," Gibbs spoke up, "We need to get back home. Is there anything you have that can open up a portal to get us back?"

Frostbite's face fell slightly, "Alas, such objects or powers, we do not have."

But then, one of his guards whispered in his ear and, whatever news it was, it seemed to make Frostbite happier. His smile returned and he turned back to the group.

"However, Kang, here, tells me that a natural portal not far from here, opened up, shortly before you arrived."

"How convenient." Tony muttered, but Frostbite heard him.

"Not at all, Anthony. Many natural portals open all over the Ghost Zone. Even here, some of them will appear. Advise the people not to go near them, we will, but there, they are. Follow me. But I must warn you. It is a natural portal, unanchored to your world. There is no guarantee you will end up where you started."

"We'll take our chances." Danny said. He didn't think any of them wanted to stay in the Ghost Zone another second.

As Frostbite led them through the snowy plains, they all sighed in. This adventure was almost over. Tony was with them, safe and sound.

They were going home.

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When they tumbled through, the first thing they did was fall.

It wasn't far to fall, though. The sun shone down on their bodies as they hit a concrete surface, trying not to bruise themselves too badly.

As the portal closed behind them, Tony looked up at the sky, a contrast to the green and black of the Ghost Zone, and took a deep breath.

"Ahhh! Sweet, Earth air!" he groaned as he got to his feet. It was good to be back.

The rest of them followed suit, helping each other up. Looking around, they noticed that they had not returned to the same alleyway as before. Instead, the portal had dropped them on top of a building. As he began untying the rope from around his waist, Gibbs looked at his watch and saw that is was 4PM. They had been gone for only three hours. It had felt more like six.

"So we didn't come out in the same place?" Ziva asked, looking over the edge of the building to the ground below.

"We came out of a natural portal." Danny reminded her, holding his injured arm. It wasn't bleeding anymore, "We should be lucky we didn't end up halfway around the world."

"But where are we?" McGee asked.

Tucker fished in his pocket for his PDA and switched it on. "We're not far from the NCIS HQ," he informed the rest of them, looking at the GPS. "The Navy Yard is only about a mile or two away from here."

Jazz, who was busy untying the rope from around her own waist, turned to Danny, "Do you think you'll be okay?"

Danny removed his left hand from his arm and Gibbs was surprised to see that the wound was already closing up. At the rate at which it was healing, there would only be a faint scar left when they got back to HQ.

"I'm fine."

"There's a fire escape over here," Sam called from one side of the building, "Let's get out of here."

"Yes," Gibbs said, winding the rope and slinging it over his shoulder, "Let's."

Well guys, there it is. I hope you enjoyed it, although, personally, I don't think this chapter was one of my best. It took a few rewrites, but I still don't think it's perfect. Sorry if it seemed rushed or too short. I'm also sorry to say that this story is coming to an end. One more chapter, I think, and then it's over. Maybe I'll write a sequel though, I don't know. What do you guys think? PLEASE REVIEW.

Till next time,

Warriorette12