Chapter 01: Opening the Portal

'What do you think of Amity Park?'

A fourteen year old teenager with raven black hair was walking through the streets, wearing a black unzipped jacket that showed a white shirt with a red circle and blue jeans while carrying a blue backpack as he fingered some dark shades that he wore.

'A wonderful place to live?'

The teen stopped as a car sped past a stop sign, nearly hitting him and a few other people who shouted.

'A normal place where nothing can ever go wrong?'

The teen stopped near an alley where there was a dead body with a pool of blood near it, grimacing as he looked at it before continuing on his way.

'Do you see it as a place to raise a family?'

There were a few children running on the streets, pickpocketing people as the teen kept a hand over where his wallet was.

'Amity Park is where I've lived all my life and I can tell you right now it's none of those things. It may have its golden treasures but deep beneath the normal facade there is nothing but corruption.'

The teen came to a stop in front of a building with the words. 'Casper High' on the front.

'My name is Daniel James Fenton, although I prefer Danny and this is my story. One that is not for the faint of heart.'

"There you are." A voice called out as Danny turned to see a dark skinned teenager with grey eyes, wearing taped glasses, a red beret, yellow turtleneck and green cargo jeans as he smiled, showing braces. "I was wondering where you were."

"Took the scenic route." Danny said with a smile of his own. "Sorry to keep you waiting Tucker."

"No need to be sorry." Tucker Foley said waving it off with a laugh. "Just remember it's your fault if Mr. Lancer says anything."

"If you say so." Danny said chuckling at his best friend.

Tucker has been Danny's best friend ever since Pre-K, they were always seen doing something together whether it involved pulling some light pranks or just hanging out watching movies, playing games. All normal stuff a teenager would do.

"Yeah well there are rumors of a new student today." Tucker said surprising Danny. "I think he'll be in our class this year."

"Huh, been awhile since we had a new student at the school." Daniel mused thoughtfully before he cried out as something slammed into his back.

Falling to the floor as a football rolled off of him, Danny pushed himself up and swerved his head to glare at the perpetrator who was the blonde haired Quarterback in a red jacket Dash Baxter. "Nice catch Fenturd." Dash taunted at the annoyed look on Danny's face while Tucker helped him up. "Reflexes are good."

"Oh go jump in a river Dash." Danny rebuked as Dash mockingly laughed and walked away.

"Man you would think he would grow up." Tucker muttered as Dash was walking off.

"That would require him being mature." Danny commented earning a snort from Tucker.

"True, but let's ignore him for now." Tucker said as he checked his PDA. "Oh wow, a lot of people are putting requests in."

Danny raised a brow. "Still doing the Information Network you put up in Middle School?"

"Of course, I am the Information Broker of Casper High." Tucker said taking an exaggerated bow.

"Right, I'll remember that when the Cheerleaders find out who gave out their three sizes online." Danny remarked earning a wide-eyed look from Tucker.

"Dude you know I was desperate for money when that came in." Tucker said looking around to make sure no one heard it. "I got five hundred bucks from that alone."

"I'm amazed you weren't lynched yet." Danny said shaking his head.

"Yet requires being caught which I haven't been." Tucker said a finger in the air. "Nor will I ever be caught."

Danny snorted in good humor. "Come on Info-King let's get to class."

"Hey I resent that nickname!"

People talked all around him as Danny sat in class, tapping a pencil on his notebook.

'Like any High School, Casper High has its cliques. The Nerds, the Popular Group, the Jocks. It goes on and on.' Danny thought looking from student to student from behind his sunglasses. 'And then there are the loners like Tucker and I.'

Tucker was busy flirting with one of the girls but getting blown off.

'Tucker was also a self-proclaimed casanova despite getting turned down everyday.' Danny chuckled as Tucker recovered quickly. 'Had to give him credit on not giving up though.'

Eventually the talking died down as a middle aged man with a black goatee walked in wearing a blue shirt and pants. "Alright settle down." Mr. Lionel Lancer said looking at the assembled students. "Mikey spit out that gum. Foley put that blasted PDA away."

'Mr. Lancer was the primary teacher at the school as well as the Vice Principal.' Danny clasped his fingers together. 'There were a lot of budget cuts firing quite a few teachers this last year, so Mr. Lancer took it upon himself to not only teach English, but also Science, Social Studies and Math proving to be quite the multi-tasker to handle all of those classes.'

That was one of the things that earned Mr. Lancer respect from a few people, mostly the parents of the students rather than the students themselves.

"Now as you all may have heard we have a new student coming today-Hannah put that mirror away." Mr. Lancer gave the students a look before continuing. "Now I want all of you to treat her with respect and for the sakes of our sanity Foley no flirting with her."

"Hey!" Came the expected cry of mock outrage from Tucker.

Danny however raised a brow and looked at Tucker. "I thought you said it was a guy."

"I thought so to." Tucker frowned as this would take credibility from him being the Information Broker if it ever got out. "Must be losing my touch."

"Please welcome, Samantha Manson." Mr. Lancer said as a black haired girl with amethyst eyes, wearing nothing but dark clothing came in with an octopus backpack on her back and black steel toed combat boots.

"It's Sam." The girl said with a short glare.

"Oh boy, she's a barrel of laughs." Tucker commented causing Danny to roll his eyes as he smirked.

"I'll bet." He went along as Sam was told to sit in an empty desk on the other side away from Danny and Tucker.

Danny looked at her with a raised brow behind his glasses before looking back at the teacher.

This Sam seems to be glaring at anyone who attempted to talk with her with a guarded expression.

"So you want to come over and help me with my Information Network?" Tucker asked as both of them were leaving the school a few hours later. "I can cut you in on the pay."

"I appreciate the offer but I promised Mom and Dad that I would help them with their studies." Danny said earning a chuckle.

"You mean the ones about Ghosts?" Tucker asked earning a forced smile from Danny. "Man I do not understand your fascination with stuff that isn't real."

The forced smile became strained as Tucker said that. "It's interesting to learn about." Danny said looking away as he didn't want to hear the blatant disbelief of Ghosts.

… Not when he knew they were real.

Real and dangerous.

Seeing how quiet Danny got, Tucker sighed. "Well my offer will stay open whenever you need it."

"Thanks Tuck." Danny said with a real smile this time as they high-fived before going separate ways.

"I'm home." Danny said as he entered a huge brick building with a huge satellite on the top and a huge bright neon sign with the name Fenton on the side.

"Hey Danny." Danny smiled at seeing an orange haired girl wearing a black shirt and blue pants.

"Hey Jazz I thought you had clubs after school." Danny said to his older sister.

"They were cancelled today due to a small mishap." Jazz said, not elaborating on what the mishap was before frowning. "I take it you're helping Mom and Dad?"

Danny frowned as Jazz never accepted their parents 'fascination' with Ghosts, calling it obsessive to the extreme as she never believed in them and she never supported Danny's decision to help them thinking that they imprinted the desire onto him.

"Yes I am." Danny said trying not to yell.

"Danny, you should be out with your friends, getting an actual job instead of helping trying to prove what's not real." Jazz said as she turned back to what she was doing.

Danny just rolled his eyes and left to put his stuff upstairs in his bedroom.

Tossing his backpack on his desk, Danny threw his jacket next before he took his sunglasses off to show his blue eyes.

Looking in the mirror, Danny saw the sharp scar over his left eye.

He was lucky he could still see out of this eye.

As he looked at it, he remembered exactly how he got this scar.

~Six Years Ago~

"Danny!" A Ten year old Jazz was chasing a giggling Eight year old Danny who had her stuffed bear. "You give Bearstein to me right now."

"Right now." Danny mocked making Jazz's face go red as he blew a raspberry in her direction.

"You better hope I don't get my hands on you!" Jazz shouted as Danny ran and slid down on the banister.

Running into the kitchen, Danny threw Bearstein on top of the fridge and ran under the table as Jazz came in.

"Kids, no running in the house." A young woman dressed in a teal hazmat suit with the hood up, wearing red goggles as she was messing with the wiring of a small device.

"Mom, Danny won't give me back Bearstein!" Jazz tattled as Danny stuck his tongue out.

"I don't have your stupid bear."

Jazz looked ready to strangle him before Madeline 'Maddie' Fenton intervened.

"Danny." Maddie gave him a look that made him squirm. "Tell the truth."

Danny pouted as he pointed to the top of the fridge as Jazz glared knowing fully well that she wouldn't be able to reach it.

Giving a sigh, Maddie put what she was working on down and got it. "Thanks Mom." Jazz said still glaring at Danny who smiled innocently. "You'll pay for that you little twerp."

"Mom, Jazz is threatening me." Danny said trying not to laugh as Maddie chuckled before picking him up much to his annoyance.

"Your father should be done with the device by now, do you kids want to see it?" Maddie asked as both children gave different opinions.

Danny had a face of excitement and curiosity while Jazz had an annoyed look. "No I don't want to see a stupid device that you guys make to try and prove Ghosts exist, which they do not." Jazz said stomping off as Maddie gave her daughter a sad look.

"I want to see it." Danny said excitedly causing Maddie to smile as she began to carry him down the stairs. "I can walk!"

"Mads you're just in time." An overweight man with black hair said as he wore a huge orange hazmat suit while working on a small circular device that was as big as Danny's head. "I'm putting up the finishing touches on the Mk II Ghost Portal."

As he said that, the man saw Danny in Maddie's arms and smiled.

"Danny my boy." The man said as Maddie handed Danny to his father. "You are in for a treat."

"Really?" Danny asked with a smile.

"Jack are you sure you got it right this time?" Maddie asked as she kept a small distance from the portal itself. "You do remember the Mk. 1 right?"

Jack Fenton chuckled sheepishly. "Don't worry Mad's I remember." He said as he winced at what happened to his best friend Vladimir Masters. "That's why there's a failsafe on this one."

"What happened?" Danny asked curiously as he shifted a bit to where he was looking curiously at the portal as Jack kept him at a safe distance from it.

"Uh, something I'll tell you when your older." Jack said remembering the ecto acne and pain that Vlad went through because of his mistake. "But you are going to see us make history Danny because we are going to make a huge step in the discovery of Ghosts."

"Can I help?" Danny asked a bit excited at the thought of making history as Jack gave a booming laugh.

"Sure just let me make sure the final adjustments are ready." Jack said handing Danny back to Maddie who placed him on the floor. "Once it's done, we'll send some of the Fenton Drones inside so we can see what the Ghost Zone looks like."

Danny looked around as they did that with a smile as they worked before he was brought out of his thoughts by Jack placing a controller in his hands. "Huh?"

"Danny are you ready to activate the portal?" Jack asked with a smile as Danny's face lit up at the opportunity. "Well then do it."

Danny had an excited look as he began to press the right buttons with Jack's help as the portal began to shake and spark with a green swirling vortex opening up as Jack laughed.

"It works!" Jack declared as he picked both Maddie and Danny up and began to dance while hugging them. "By fudge it works."

"This is great for our research." Maddie said hugging him back while Danny was laughing from being spun around.

And that was when it all went wrong.

An alarm began to go off as the lights in the lab turned red causing Jack to pause as he let go of Maddie and Danny, the latter looking confused. "What?" Jack began when Maddie spoke up.

"Jack close the portal!" Maddie ordered as she recognized the alarm but before any of them could move, a specter shot out laughing wildly as it began to tear through the lab.

"The Ecto Pistol's Mad's." Jack declared looking serious for once. "We need to keep the spooks in the lab."

With that he hit a button and a weird green glow surrounded the lab preventing the Specter from phasing through the ceiling.

"At least the Fenton Ghost Shield works." Jack mused as they weren't able to test it until now as more shot out. "Suffering Spooks!"

"Danny hide!" Maddie told him as she tossed Jack a huge Ecto Gun while she had one of her own as they began firing at the spooks, the blasts sending most of them back into the portal as Danny ran and hid behind something, watching in awe as his parents were kicking some serious butt.

The specters tried to get them but his parents were more than prepared as they kept the specters back at a good distance as neither of them could get close enough to cause damage.

His Mom even kicked off a wall to shoot at a few while in midair making Danny's jaw drop before his eyes widened as one specter saw him and shot towards him considering he didn't have a weapon.

"Danny!" Jack called out at seeing that as he turned to shoot but a Specter managed to hit him before he could while Maddie got the specter that did the damage.

But as she turned to get the ne heading for her son, she saw it slam into him and she saw blood begin to run down Danny's face as it managed to score a hit right where his eye was.

Danny was knocked back a bit as he couldn't see out of his left eye anymore and when he tried to open it, agonizing pain filled it as blood dripped to the floor.

The Specter raised a blood covered hand to finish him off only for Maddie to shoot it. "Get away from my baby!" Maddie snarled in anger as she was about to show these Ghosts what happened when you mess with her children.

"This means war spooks!" Jack said just as angry as Danny felt dizzy before he blacked out as his parents were doing more damage against the Ghosts.

Danny groaned as he woke up before crying out as his left eye was still in pain.

Sitting up, Danny felt sick to his stomach as he nearly threw up.

"W-Wha?" Danny muttered his throat dry before seeing that an IV bag was in his arm as well as a heartbeat monitor.

As he looked around, Danny felt his eyes widen, causing pain in his left as a medical patch was over his left eye.

"W-What happened?" Danny muttered as the last moments before blacking out came back to him.

Helping opening the Ghost Portal, the Ghosts shooting out, one of them injuring him.

"Mom. Dad." Danny was worried about them before he saw the door open to show Jazz who was coming in with a book but her face lit up when she saw him awake.

"Danny!" Jazz immediately pulled him into a hug as Danny gave a small moan of pain. "Oh man we were so worried about you."

"J-Jazz?" Danny asked in confusion. "I thought you were mad at me earlier today."

It took a few seconds for Jazz to realize what he was talking about as she calmly placed a hand over his shoulder. "Danny, you've been out for two weeks."

"Two weeks?!" Danny cried out as he tried to sit up only for Jazz to force him back in the medical bed.

"I told Mom and Dad not to mess with that stuff and now one of their experiments hurt you." Jazz muttered.

"Experiments?" Danny shook his head as he remembered what happened. "No it was a Ghost-."

"Danny, like I told Mom and Dad there are no such things as Ghosts." Jazz said looking worried again. "Maybe the hit to your head gave you a concussion?"

"I know what I saw." Danny said stubbornly as he was annoyed at Jazz for not believing him.

Jazz looked like she wanted to argue, but she shook her head as Danny was still injured before she leaned in and kissed him on his forehead. "Just focus on getting well Danny." She said turning to leave and let their parents know that he was awake.

"Jazz, I know what I saw." Danny repeated as she left. "Ghosts… They're dangerous."

More dangerous than people realize.

~Present Time~

Danny grimaced as he touched the scar, phantom pain shooting through him.

He never got over that day.

As soon as he was let out he begged for Mom to teach him Martial Arts so he would be able to avoid being defenseless like that again and after a bit he asked Dad to teach him how all of the Anti-Ghost Weapons worked and how to read the blueprints.

Giving a sigh, Danny put the sunglasses back on as he left his bedroom and slid down the stair banister.

There wasn't any use to thinking about the past.

Once he was downstairs, Danny grabbed some stuff from the fridge before he walked down another set of stairs into the basement as he winced at seeing his parents working on an even bigger version of the Ghost Portal.

The Mk. III was a big mistake in his opinion, but his parents were adamant about building it to improve their studies.

Danny was just grateful that the Ghost Shield to keep them in the lab as well as the Anti Ghost Weapons actually worked.

"Sorry to keep you guys waiting." Danny said making his presence known as he placed some stuff on the table. "I stopped by the kitchen."

"Did you bring Fudge?" Jack asked causing Danny to laugh as he knew his Dad pretty well to expect that.

"Yes, and some drinks." Danny said knowing that his parents would work themselves hard on a project so much that they would forget to eat or drink.

It was one of the ways he helped them out.

"So how is this portal coming?" Danny asked looking at it as he had to admit, it looked a lot more impressive than the Mk. II.

While the Mk. II was as big as his head when he was eight, the Mk. III was big enough to fit a man three times bigger than Jack at the moment, which is kind of hard to see, but it was huge!

"We should be done with it pretty soon." Maddie said putting a wrench down as Danny passed her a bottle of water. "Thanks sweetie."

"It's no problem, Mom." Danny said looking at the blast doors that had an Anti-Ghost Shield around it. "Man you guys are really going all-out with the defenses this time."

In truth he was extremely glad about that one.

"Well of course, we don't want to cause a Ghost Invasion by mistake." Jack said with a laugh as he hammered a loose part back in. "You should get in your Hazmat Suit son."

"I'm good." Danny said not wanting to wear one at the moment as he stood back to watch them from a safe distance, his eye looking to where the Ecto Guns were and he was itching to arm himself just in case.

"And done." Maddie's voice caused Danny to snap to attention as he realized what she said. "Danny."

Giving a nod, Danny grabbed the Ecto Guns, handing the two big ones to his parents while he held the pistol he gripped it tightly while Jack got ready to plug it in.

"Ready?" Jack asked as Maddie and Danny gave a nod, the latter looking tense. "BANZAI!"

Jamming the plugs together the Mk. III Ghost Portal sparked and shook before it stopped causing some confusion.

"It didn't work?" Jack asked disappointed while Danny sighed in relief. "Why didn't it work, we went over the blueprints."

"Perhaps we missed something." Maddie said placing her weapon down as she put a hand around Jack's arm, leading him away from the basement. "We did try to make it bigger than the Mk. 1 and Mk. II."

"So we should look over what we might've missed?" Jack asked interest in his tone as he was lead upstairs, both of them leaving Danny by himself as he still had a hold of the pistol glaring at the Mk. III.

"I never understood why they would build you." Danny said the the inactive portal. "Why the would want to study Ghosts, maybe I never will."

Still glaring at the Mk. III, Danny remembered when the Mk. II worked and the Ghost that nearly clawed out his left eye causing him to cry out in frustration as he kicked a stray part into the Ghost Portal, unknowingly hitting the On button that was inside of the machine.

Turning to leave after placing the pistol down, Danny paused as he heard the machine sparking and he turned to see electricity coming off of it in sparks as it began to shudder.

"What the-?" Danny was cut off as the portal practically exploded with energy, the swirling vortex showing as cold air shot past Danny, whipping his black hair back as his sunglasses were knocked off of his face.

Hearing laughter, Danny forced himself to look against the force of the cold energy and he paled as he saw hundreds of specters shooting out laughing wildly as they went out through the walls, ceiling and floor considering the Anti-Ghost Shields were inactive.

"No." Danny picked up the pistol and ran towards the machine. "No, God no!"

Making it to the computer, Danny typed in the override that his parents taught him as the blast doors closed shut, cutting off more of the Ghosts.

But it didn't matter.

Hundreds of them escaped the lab into Amity Park… Into the world.

Any damage they would do, anyone they injured.

It would all be his fault.

To Be Continued…

Yes a rewrite of Amity's Dark Phantom, I looked over how I've done the original and I'm sorry but I really feel like I could do better than what I have done so far. Especially with attempting to make it more realistic… Or as realistic as I can with Ghosts involved and I'm attempting to flesh things out a bit more.

And I have at least four main bad guys planned, think of them being shown like from Arrow if you want, a main bad guy for each season or maybe two at once at some point.

The first one will be obvious if you know Danny Phantom.

So read, review all of that good stuff and I'll continue this soon.

This is Spidey Signing Out!