110I came up with this idea and it bloomed into a series. Originally it was going to be just one story but now it's about three so far. I'll see if I can think of more, but for now there's three. YAY! Now for the 1st part, story one- Machine Mayhem:
Machine Mayhem
"Hey, Mom?" Danny, a shy 14-year-old, son of ghost hunters, and soon to be Casper High freshman, asked his mom.
Maddie was working on her and Jack's newest invention, the Fenton Ghost Portal, or the Fenton Portal for short.
Jack was inside the metallic cylinder that went about five feet into the wall with wires all over. He was connecting wires, making sure they hooked up correctly with the right ones.
It took Maddie a little while to realize that her son had spoken to her. She pulled off her protective mask that covered her eyes and put down her tools on a table as she neared him.
"Yes, Danny?" Danny glanced at the almost finished portal and she followed his gaze, a smile finding its way across her face. "Oh, you mean this?" she asked as she pointed to the portal. Danny nodded, obviously curious.
Jazz came downstairs and stopped next to Danny. She looked at her dad and rolled her eyes at the sight of him babbling to himself about ghosts in a childish way as if talking to someone, though really talking to himself. It seemed as though he was preparing for the news, talking about the portal and practicing for the interview.
Jazz leaned to Danny's ear and whispered, "Be careful Danny, please. You know how they are with 'ghost equipment,' especially Dad." Danny couldn't help but laugh a bit when she told him this. They knew that Jack, their father, was not the best at aiming and was a bit energetic along with being a little clumsy at times.
Jazz smiled and took one last look at the invention then turned heel and went upstairs to do something she considered normal.
Maddie sighed but suddenly grabbed Danny's arm and led him in front of the unfinished portal.
"This is the Fenton Ghost Portal!" Maddie exclaimed enthusiastically. Then her voice lowered to a more disappointed tone. "But it's not quite finished yet."
Here voice piped up again and a smile appeared on her lips again as she said, "It should be ready soon, though! At the rate your father's going." Danny couldn't help but crack a smile at his mom's cheerfulness. It had been a while since she had been seen smiling, which, of course, made him smile too.
Their moment was interrupted when they heard a shout coming from inside the portal.
"It's DONE! Done! Done! Done! Done! DONE!" Jack bellowed like a child, dancing around like one, too. One could only wonder how a large man like Jack could jump around as if he were as light as a feather.
Danny and Maddie looked at each other with embarrassed smiles, until Maddie realized what he had said. Her face lit up as if on fire from the excitement of the news.
Maddie raced upstairs and literally dragged Jazz, who was protesting in every way she could think of, down the stairs and over to the now finished but unactivated portal.
Mr. and Mrs. Fenton had their children stand back a few feet from the portal while Maddie stood next to Jack as he held a plug in each hand.
In a matter of seconds he plugged them in, but only a few sparks emitted inside the portal until it died down.
Danny's smile faded in not only disappointment, but sympathy, for his parents. They had been working on this project since college and thought they had all the kinks worked out from the last failed attempt with a smaller version in college, the portal prototype. It had caused their college friend to get ecto-acne, and a rare case at that.
Mr. and Mrs. Fenton's smiles faded too, both going upstairs to their bedroom on the top floor to think about what they had done wrong.
Jazz shook her head in pity. Yeah, she hated the unhealthy obsession of ghosts her parents had pursued to prove to be real, Jazz herself unbelieving of such nonsense. But at the same time, she hated seeing her parents as sad and disappointed as they were now.
Jazz just went upstairs, thinking up ways to help them realize ghosts weren't real, using this failure as a starting point.
Danny stood there, looking around to see if he could do anything about the failed attempt of activating the portal. Maybe there was a loose wire? A failed connection or a miscalculation? He didn't think he could do anything about a miscalculation, but maybe he could go inside and check the wiring. He'd always been good at the wiring part of inventions since he had experience with helping his mom with a few of her inventions.
Danny looked around the lab in search of his personal HAZMAT suit, white with black gloves, boots, belt, and collar.
He put it on, zipped it up and prepared himself to go inside. But before he went to look, he remembered the little white and black emblem he had made months before. He put the emblem on his chest where, when he first got his suit, the old Jack Fenton face picture had been before Danny had taken it off. He had been meaning to put the emblem on his suit but never really had time until now.
Danny liked it, and smiled as he set foot inside the metallic cylinder filled with wires. He looked all over the inside of the failed invention, but found nothing noticeably wrong with it.
With a "at least I tried" sigh, he turned to head out when he slipped on an unsecured wire and fell forward.
He tried to hold on to something, anything, and wound up pressing very hard against the side walls, unaware of the "on" button under his right hand.
To his horror, there was a whirring sound coming from behind and soon realized that it was coming from the portal. A smile formed at the thought of fixing the portal, but soon became a look of horror when he realized he was still inside the activating portal.
Danny balanced himself and made a run for the entrance of the portal.
The whirring got louder and louder and soon sparks flew all around him as the portal fully activated...
...with Danny inside.
dun, Dun, DUN... lol. How was it? This is the first story that I've had the chance to write out, besides Dream Works, and I hope it'llbe just as good. There's not much in the first chapter, but there will be more in the next. I know, this chapter is basically the same as what happens in the show, but it is completely different by the second one. I guess I'll post the next chapter either tomorrow. I already have this whole story written out, so I'll be able to post it whenever. YAY! A few days of work and its done. Hope you like it so far! Please RxR!