Danny, Sam, and Tucker stood in his parents lab downstairs in the basement. They were looking at all the inventions and everything until they came to the money stopper.
The ghost portal.
It was supposed to bridge a path between their world and the ghost zone, but his parents hadn't been able to get it to work.
"Danny you should go inside of it!" Sam exclaimed with a hint of mischief.
"I don't know Sam. My parents inventions aren't always the safest." Danny said looking at her.
"Oh come on." Sam said. "This one doesn't even work."
He looked back at the portal. "I guess you're right.
"I have wondered what could be on the other side of that portal."
He went to rummage in a box somewhere and pulled out a jumpsuit. It was white and black and had a sticker of his dad's face on it. It was sized specifically for him.
He stepped into it and zipped it up. He walked in front of the ghost portal. He was about to enter when Sam stopped him.
"Hold on." She said, pulling the sticker off and pointing at it. "You don't want to be seen walking around with this on your chest."
Danny turned back to the portal and stepped inside. His feet echoed slightly in the metal tube and it was dark. There were wires strewn across the floor, and as he tried to pick his foot up another time he tripped. His hand raced towards the wall of the portal where he felt it give.
A humming started around him, and he looked in horror at where his hand was on the wall.
He had pressed an on button. He didn't know why his parents would put it on the inside, but apparently they never actually turned the machine on when they tested it.
Before any other thought could come to mind, he felt thousands of volts of electricity racing through his body. As he was screaming, he could hear Sam and Tucker yelling his name. Soon he blacked out, and his body fell out of the portal and onto the lab floor.
Danny awoke laying on the lab floor where his body had collapsed after the shock from the portal. Looking around, he didn't see anybody in the lab with him.
Where did Sam and Tucker go? They wouldn't just abandon him after that would they?
Danny stood up, feeling weirdly light after having just been electrocuted, and made his way upstairs.
As he reached the doorway to the kitchen he could hear the presence of people, but no one was speaking. All he could hear were sniffles and shaky breaths.
"Mom? Dad?" He said. No one made a move or spoke a word in response.
He made it the rest of the way up the stairs and saw people milling about in the kitchen dressed in black.
What was going on?
He made his way to the living room and saw it. A big, framed picture of his freshman year photo. There were flowers strewn across the room. Dread began to fill his stomach.
He turned around and saw Jazz. She was also dressed in black and had no headband in her hair.
"Jazz!" He yelled, running up to her.
He tried to throw his arms around her in an embrace, but they just glided through her. He looked at his hands in horror and tried to grab her arm, again with no success.
He was at his own funeral wake. They were mourning him.
He collapsed to his knees before Jazz, burying his face in his hands. Yelling and screaming into them, mourning his own death.
He heard Jazz sniffle above him as she looked around the room.
"It's okay, little brother." She whispered. "It's okay."
Danny reached up to run his hand through hers, wanting to comfort her.
Jazz closed her eyes and cupped her hand as though she could feel his, and a tear rolled down her cheek.