Get That Out Of Your Mouth (You don't know where it's been!)

This wasn't your spring break plans? (Never look a Gift Portal in the Eye!)

Danny finds himself in the middle of a field with the bone-deep sense that he might have, as one might say, Fucked Up.

He laments, for a few moments, hands covering his face as he lets out an exhausted groan into the soft dirt beneath him, that there were in fact several ways he could have prevented this current "situation".

Firstly, he really didn't need to go into the Ghost Zone today, after all, whatever you could do today, you could probably put off until tomorrow!

Secondly, the fact that there were several ghosts retreating from the weird area of the zone that pulled at his core like a wave pulling things into the ocean, did in fact mean that he should probably Also Do That.

Thirdly, well, while curiosity killed the cat Danny had already been there and done that, so yeah, a weird big rift in the Ghost Zone that looked like someone took a bread knife and went at the very reality within it, pulling the surrounding green into it, shattering any of the doors it touched.

In Danny's defense, he did just want to get a closer look to see if he could make out anything past the sun-bright white light within the thing.

What he had not expected was for the feeling of being pulled into it to become a sudden undercurrent beneath him, washing him right out to sea.

Back in the Now, Danny finds himself in a field in what seems to be the middle of nowhere, USA (Thanks distant highway sign) feeling like he was just thrown into a washing machine.

"Ugh..." He groans it out as he lifts his head from the dirt, spitting out a bit that found its way into his mouth.

Alright, checklist. Things he's got to know before doing anything crazy after going through what he can assume was a natural portal. Albeit a weird one.

Listen, Danny isn't stupid-he tries to rub off the mud from his jeans for a moment before realizing he can just go intangible and it'll fall off- OK, well he's not incredibly stupid, at least not for checking out the portal.

In his defense- He's out of his ghost form, there's no visible portal still hanging around, and he does still at least have his backpack- Natural portals don't usually look like that, at least in his two? Three? other experiences with them. Usually, they looked pretty similar to the permanent one in his parent's basement, just more temporary and they tended to kind of shift in shape, going from huge to absolutely tiny.

This portal definitely did not follow said formula- it deposited him in a field, a wheat field, maybe? First red flag, Amity was more on the corn side of agriculture, and oh wow that's a lot of cows on that hill- and most of the ghost zone is still a mystery to him.

So weird portal had dropped him... Somewhere? The last time he went through one of those things he just got deposited in one of the more woodsy areas just outside of Amity, sure it was a pain to fly back, but not the worst thing in the world, and if the weird portal is weird it probably just threw him somewhere farther way.

Danny shuffled through his bag, pulling out the PDA Tucker "gifted" him when he just so happened to be getting a new one for himself.

AAAnd black screen, no response. Danny shook it a couple of times like that would make a difference.

Nope, the black mirror gave him no signs of life, even in his own tired reflection.

He was so gonna miss curfew.

"Old fashioned way it is." He muttered to himself, looking back over to the distant billboard.

It's quick work flying over from his little crater of ruthlessly smashed wheat over to the billboard advertising some restaurant he's never heard of before.