Hello and welcome to my fanfic based on both the cartoon Danny Phantom, and a sudden AU idea(it might already be a thing, but I don't care. It popped into my head) and I welcome you to read. It's not my first fic, far from it, but this will be more of a side project while I plan a bigger thing off to the side

~Experiment~

"Are you sure Jack" Maddie watched him put the nails in the panel inside of the metal cylinder. "This is very," she paused as she touched a wall of the machine, her eyes blocked by her goggles from his view. He turned towards her, he watched her struggle to find words before speaking up, choosing his own words carefully

"Maddie, we don't know what it did to him, if we want to know anything" He paused as Maddie nodded. Her shivering catch Jack by surprise. "We don't have-" he began to offer, her interruption coming before he could gather his own thoughts.

"I need to know what it did, what changed. We had two children for a reason honey" She messed with a few wires, and then walking outside of it, Jack put a few things away as he sighed.

Truthfully, they needed to know. The government gave them that grant to find information, not to mess around with things they didn't know if they were real or not. It was either this, or lose everything. The house, most their projects research, and maybe even their standing within their social group of ghost hunters.

"Maddie" Jack stopped as she went to call the children down to show them the supposed to be the grand finally of their work.

"Jack." Maddie turned back to her husband with a sigh.

"If you're unsure" He reminded as he took her hand. He raised it to his lips as she frowned and turned back to the opening.

"I'm not, I understand the risk." She promised, "This will help us get what we need next, even if it doesn't end up the best" She shivered once more as she thought about what was to begin.

They called the children down, and began to explain everything. "This will allow us…" They both trying to hide their plans behind the enjoyment. Soon, it got to the point of turning the ghost portal, but it didn't turn on, both frowned, noting the light spark. Jack sighed. And then they walked away. They kept making sure to not turn around as they walked past their children. They heard footsteps echo as they started up to the first floor of the house and hopped it would happen soon.

Danny and Jazz looked at the thing as Jazz made her brother stay behind her. Away from the machine. "Danny" she turned back to her brother "Try to avoid this thing right now, I don't exactly know what it is."

"Ghost aren't real, snob" He muttered, walking back up the stairs with a roll of his eyes. Jazz sighed before chewing on her lip. She turned back to the thing of metal and wires., and if she were honest with to herself, nightmares. She took one last look around, noticing the many chemicals laying around the basement.

"I should keep an eye on this. Mom and dad are smart but" She rolled her eyes. "What was I thinking." She walked up the stairs, ignoring her own worries whelping up inside her throat.

A week went by without much mentions at dinner of the supposed ghost portal, Jazz was happy but it showed that ghost related things weren't off the board yet. Danny came home with bruises of bully's handiwork, but also joy in his eyes from his two best friend.

A second week passed as Sam hung out some more, watching the boys play the latest update of whatever game they had been obsessed with that day. Even some studying went on as Jazz would offer snacks, and then at being turned down Sam would explain it had animal product in it, but the boys took it and rushed to the raven-haired boy's bedroom.

It was just after three weeks when Danny explained the fail of a project in his basement, even as Jazz warned against it, knowing some ways this could go. She had a trip this week, her mom and her were going to visit a college, it was early but she needed to find her spot before it was taken.

Soon, just over a month they were told it never would work, Amity Park got their new hero. And Danny got a shock to his day to day life. Sam and Tucker vowed to stay by his side, and Maddie and Jack, well the kids were trying their best to keep them out of the loop.

And it would be a very long time before any of them knew even half of the truth, and many years before they could do a thing about it.