We've all wondered how Danny Phantom first got his powers, and what really went down that day. This is my idea of Danny Phantom's beginning.

Danny Phantom: The Beginning

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Danny Fenton's life was a normal one. Wake up, get ready, go to school, hang out with friends; you know, the usual. His friends were Tucker Foley, the Techno Geek, and Samantha Manson, aka Sam, the Ultra Recyclo Vegetarian Goth. His sister Jazz was a smart red-head. His parents, Jack and Maddie, were not so normal. They were ghost hunters.

On the first day of high school, 14-year-old Danny came home with Tucker and Sam following.

"Kids!" Maddie called. "Come and see this!"

So they went down into the basement, where Jack and Maddie did their ghost research. The couple was standing by a small room with no real door.

"This is our newest invention, the Ghost Portal!" Jack told them as they stared at it.

"How does it work?" Sam asked.

"Well, we plug it in, and then we'll have our own portal into the Ghost Zone!" Jack explained.

"Neat!" Tucker said, earning glares from Danny and Sam.

Maddie picked up the cord and plugged it in. There were a few sparks, and then…nothing.

"Oh, well," Maddie sighed as she and Jack went back upstairs. "I guess not everything always works."

Sam looked at the defective portal. "Hey, Danny, why don't you go in? See if your folks missed anything."

"Yeah, man! Go check out the ghost zone or whatever!" Tucker added.

"I don't know…" Danny muttered.

"Aw, come on. Are you scared?" Sam taunted.

"I'm not scared!" Danny shot back. He grabbed a white HAZMAT suit with a black collar, a black belt, black boots, black gloves, and a Jack Fenton sticker from the closet. He pulled it on and prepared to go in.

"Wait," Sam said, and removed the Jack sticker. "There. That looks a lot better."

"Okay," Danny said. He hesitated at the portal.

"Come on, Danny!" Sam encouraged.

"Do it, man!" Tucker cheered.

"Well, I always have wanted to see what Mom and Dad have been talking about," Danny murmured. "Who knows what's on the other side of that portal."

He walked inside the portal. He looked around, then walked further in. But he lost his balance, and put his hand on the wall. However, the ON/OFF panel was there, and without knowing it, he had pushed ON.

The portal lit up, and sparks began to electrocute inside. One jolt hit Danny. "AHHHHHHH!"

"Danny!" Sam and Tucker cried.

"YAAAAAAH!" Danny screamed. As the portal activated, little ghosts phased into Danny and covered his DNA. As this happened, his raven-black hair turned snow white, and his ice blue eyes turned an eerie, glowing neon green. His white suit became black, and whatever black the suit had became white.

On the outside, Sam and Tucker gasped as a swirling green mist covered the portal entrance, and they lost sight of Danny, but they could hear his screams. As his screams died away and the portal status read, "On and functioning," Sam cautiously called, "Danny?"

As she did, a boy stepped out of the portal. He had white hair and green eyes, and wore a black HAZMAT suit with white gloves, white boots, a white collar, and a white belt. There was a glowing white aura around him.

"Guys?" the boy asked in an unsteady voice that sounded like Danny's. "Ohhhhh…" And Danny passed out.

"Danny!" Tucker and Sam cried again. They looked at the swirling green portal behind them. Since Danny was in it, and it was a ghost portal, could Danny be…a ghost?

Sam picked up Danny's head. It turned intangible and slipped right through her fingers and fell back to the floor. She felt tears forming in her violet eyes. "Danny? Danny, wake up!" Sam cried.

"Come on, Danny! Get up!" Tucker said, shaking his friend.

"Oh…" Danny groaned, and blinked open his now green eyes. "Guys…did it work?" he asked feebly.

"Danny, the portal's on, but…" Sam and Tucker looked at each other uncertainly.

"What?" Danny questioned, getting up.

"See for yourself, man," Tucker said, handing him a mirror he found. Danny took it and stared at himself. It looked like he had a color change, but it was much more, Danny knew. The white HAZMAT suit with black accessories was now black with white accessories. His black hair was now white, and his calm blue eyes were a firey green, and Danny could see a faint white aura around him.

"What…what happened?" Danny asked.

"I don't know," Tucker answered.

"Danny…I think you might be…well, a…a ghost," Sam stammered.

"A ghost?"Danny asked no one in particular. "I'm a ghost?!?!"

"Try flying or something," Tucker suggested.

Danny gave him a questioning glance, then jumped into the air, waiting for gravity to take effect. But his feet never came back down to Earth. He looked down and saw he was floating about one foot in the air.

"Fly around!" Sam encouraged. Danny shrugged, then tried it. He glided through the air, zooming around the lab. He picked up speed and did a little loop-de-loop before stopping and floating in front of his friends again.

"Uh…Danny?" Sam said, pointing at his feet.

He looked down, but where his legs and feet should have been was a wavering ghost tail. "Ah!" Danny screeched. He tried to get his legs back, but failed. "How do you make it go away?"

"I don't know, you're the ghost," Tucker commented.

"Geez, thanks, Tuck," Danny said sarcastically.

"Wait, if you're a ghost, does that mean you're…you know…dead?" Sam asked worriedly.

Danny's green eyes widened with the possibility that he was dead.

"Kids," Maddie's voice called suddenly. "Is everything okay?"

"It's your parents!" Sam exclaimed quietly. "Hide!"

'Where?" Danny whispered.

"Go invisible!" Tucker encouraged softly.

"I don't know how!" Danny cried quietly.

I want to be myself again! Danny wailed in his head. As if on cue, a white ring appeared around Danny's middle, then split into two; one ring went up, and the other went down. As they passed over his body, Danny went from a ghost to himself; black hair, blue eyes, red-and-white shirt and shoes, and blue jeans. He landed on the ground just as Jack and Maddie came down.

"Are you kids okay? We heard screams," Maddie said. Then she noticed the portal. "How did you get it to work?" she asked.

"Danny went in and pushed the ON button," Tucker said. Sam and Danny glared at him, and Danny's eyes flashed green.

"Oh, Danny! Are you alright? Did you get shocked or anything?" Maddie asked.

"Did you see any ghosts?" Jack asked.

Danny looked at his dad, then said, "I got shocked a bit, but I'm fine, mom. And no ghosts," he said.

"Oh…okay. As long as you're sure you're okay, sweetie," Maddie said. She gave Danny a little kiss, and then she and Jack walked back upstairs, shutting the soundproof door.

"That was close," Sam breathed. "How'd you do that, Danny?"

"Do what?" Danny asked, as if he forgot everything. Well, he really wanted to, but it wasn't working.

"How did you go from a ghost back into you?" Sam asked.

"Yeah," Tucker added. "That was cool."

"I don't know!" Danny told them. "I just thought about being normal, and then I changed."

"Try becoming a ghost again!" Tucker encouraged.

"Fine," Danny grumbled. Go ghost, go ghost, go ghost… Danny thought. Hey, that's a cool catchphrase. Goin' ghost! The white ring reappeared, and once again split into two. The normal 14-year-old was now a ghost once more.

"It worked!" Danny exclaimed.

"Yeah, but now, you need a name," Sam said.

"I have a name," Danny said.

"No, I mean a ghost name. Something that sounds like you, but also sounds…well, ghostly," Sam told him.

"Inviso-Bill!" Tucker threw out. Sam and Danny gave him weird looks.

"I will not be called Inviso-Bill," Danny said.

"How about…Danny Phantom?" Sam mused.

"Yeah… Danny Phantom. It sounds like Danny Fenton, but has a ghostly ring to it. I like it!" Danny decided.

"So, Danny, what other powers do you have?" Tucker asked.

Danny shrugged, and as he did so, he turned invisible. "Danny?" Sam called out.

"I'm right here, Sam," came Danny's voice, but he was nowhere to be seen. "Invisibility is one thing you got," Sam said as Danny finally became visible.

"Wait…when he first got out of the portal, he slipped right through your hands!" Tucker added.

"Well, intangibility might be useful," Sam decided. "Try shooting a plasma ray or an energy beam or something."

Danny curled his hand into a fist and held it out. When he uncurled his hands, a green ray shot out and hit the wall. "Cool!" Danny said, looking at the green smoke coming from his hand. "What else should we try?"

"Well, let's not do anything else-" Sam broke off as Danny went intangible and flew at Tucker. He went inside, and Tucker glowed green for a moment. Then his turquoise eyes were replaced by green one's similar to Danny's. "Hi, I'm Tucker Foley. Don't be fooled by my looks, I really do care…about technology!" Tucker said in Danny's voice. Then Tucker glowed green again, and Danny's ghost form came out of the African-American teen. Tucker blinked for a few moments. "What…?" he asked.

"That was fun!" Danny said.

Sam glared at Danny. "What did you do?!" she asked.

"Uh… I overshadowed Tucker, I guess," Danny said, before realizing this. "Hey! I can overshadow too! This ghost stuff is so cool!"

"Not when you're a meat puppet," Tucker complained.

"We should tell your parents," Sam said.

"No way! They might send me to a government testing lab, or dissect me themselves," Danny argued, changing into his human self.

"Well, maybe Danny Phantom can help out Amity Park or something," Tucker suggested.

"Tucker, you've finally come to your senses," Sam said. "What do you think, Danny? You want to be Amity Park's ghost hero?"

"Yeah!" Danny agreed. "I'll be Danny Phantom, Amity Park's ghost hero!"

And thus, Danny Phantom is made.

This is a oneshot, so there will be no more chapters. Sorry! But please, R&R! I hope you liked by version of Danny Phantom's beginning!