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TrojanHalks2012 — Chapter 12- Saving Clockwork by-nc-nd
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Description "YAAAAAAH!" Danny screams as he jumps through a thicket of bushes. He runs past a giant Venus Fly trap, causing it to snap at him. He manages to dodge it and keeps on running. "I've got to lose it," he said fearfully before he screeched to a halt. A raptor had come out of the bushes in front of him and was looking forward to a meal. "Or not," he said before he turned around and ran away as fast as he could with the raptor right behind him.

He ran by the Venus Fly Trap, dodging it as it snapped at him again. He looked back and smirked as the giant plant snapped out and grabbed the raptor with its so called teeth. It screeched and snarled as it slashed at the plant but to no avail.

Danny didn't pay any attention to where he was going. He ran right into a quicksand pit, tripping and falling face first into the mud. He stood up and went intangible to avoid sinking. He walked out of the mud and came face to face with two more raptors.

"Here we go again!" he yelled before he took off running with both raptors close behind. He kept running through bushes and tall ferns before he had to come to a sliding halt. The raptor he had lost earlier to the Venus Fly trap had escaped. It was all scratched up and looked pretty angry. It roared before charging.

Danny turned to run away but stopped when he realized the other two raptors were charging at him from that direction too. He looked back and forth between the three as they quickly closed in on him. He smirked before he sprung into the air. The three raptors gazed up at him and ran into each other, knocking them out cold.

"Hee hee, suckers," Danny sneered as he floated in the air above them. He then felt a deep warm breath behind him. He gulped nervously before turning around and came face to face with a T-Rex. It roared loudly, spewing him with bloody saliva and bits and pieces of un-digested flesh. "Eww, this is so gross," he said with a shudder.

The T-Rex snapped at him but he managed to evade its numerous teeth and flew higher, out of its reach. He heard it roar again as he flew over the dense jungle to avoid any more dangers.

"This is nuts. I've got to find a new way of getting home." He stopped flying and hovered as he pulled the Infi-map out of nowhere from behind his back. "Let's see, I no longer have access to time portals so my only hope is to get into the ghost zone and find a doorway or another portal that will take me back to my time period."

He examined the map from top to bottom but didn't find any portals open at the time. The only one that even appeared on the map was a triangular portal somewhere in the sea south of Florida.

"The Bermuda Triangle, figures it's the only portal around," Danny said with a fake laugh. "This time period must be too primitive for any other portals to open up or something." He looked up from the map and searched his surroundings. "Too bad I have no idea where I am," he yelled before he heard the beating of wings behind him. He turned around and saw a Pterodactyl flying towards him. "Good thing the map can take me there…literally," he said with a smirk.

The Infi-map started glowing before it suddenly shot off with Danny hanging onto the back end. The pterodactyl's mouth snapped shut where he was once floating. It screeched as it watched the map take Danny off into the horizon.
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The Bermuda Triangle ghost portal swirled off in the distance as the map pulled Danny behind it as it sped over the ocean towards it.

"This is so awesome!" Danny cheered as his hair blew back over his head. "At this rate I should be able to get back to my time period before the girls even get there, if I'm lucky that is."

He sped towards the portal as fast as the map would take him, but it just wasn't fast enough. Just before Danny could go through, the portal closed, trapping him in the living world.

"ARGH!" Danny yelled in anger. He opened the Infi-map in a rage and examined it for an alternative portal. "The next portal won't open up here for awhile. I need to find a way to open another portal now." Suddenly the answer came to him. "This had better work," he said as he rolled up the map and stuff it in his belt.

He built up energy in his hands and opened his palms out away from him. He concentrated hard on his energy as it began to swirl in front of him. It slowly grew into a portal, but he wouldn't have been able to get through. Unable to sustain the effort to keep it open, he lost the energy and the portal closed.

"I still can't produce enough energy to sustain a portal," he said as he looked at his hands as they let off a green haze. "I need more power." Then another idea came to mind. "That would produce enough power, but would it work?" he asked himself on his idea. He held his chin with his hand as he thought it over. "Worth a shot, I've got nothing else to lose."

He took a deep breath and felt a surge of energy rising in the back of his throat. He exhaled releasing his ghostly wail. The sound waves erupted from his mouth, spreading out. He concentrated on where he aimed the attack and the sound waves got smaller and smaller until they were concentrated on a small spot in front of him.

He continued the attack until a spark of electricity indicated the opening a new ghost portal. Danny let off his attack and took a few breathes before looking up to see a self sustaining ghost portal swirling in front of him.

"Alright, I made a hole into the ghost zone," he said with an exhausted grin. "I'll have to remember how to do that later, for now; I've got to find a portal inside that will take me home."

As he was thinking to himself and admiring his work on creating his first portal to the ghost zone, it started to shrink. He yelped before he flew for the portal and went through before it closed with him on the wrong side.

He reappeared on the other side in what appeared to be a very ancient ghost zone. "Whoa! This place looks like a dump," he exclaimed as he took in the view.

The ghost zone still had an eerie green glow and still seemed to go on forever, but there were no doors to any ghosts homes and any boulders that happened to be floating around had prehistoric plant death; it's the "ghost zone" for a reason; growing on them.

The ghost zone was an infinite void; so not enough life had passed on to reside here. Any ghosts that did live here were too far spread out.

"Ok, now this is just a little too eerie, even for the ghost zone," he said before he flew off in a random direction. "This is a prehistoric ghost zone so most of my enemies, if not all of them, probably don't exist. I just hope I don't run into anything dangerous."

He flew around a large floating island and crashed into the back of the very thing he was hoping to not run across. Looming over him with its back to him was a large red ghost with four arms and a tail.

It turned around and growled at him for disturbing it. It had a grey chest and a face like that of a gorilla's.

"Oh great, you again," Danny sighed. "I never figured you were this old," he mocked it. It roared in his face to try to scare him, but he didn't even flinch which caused it some confusion. "See, first you try to scare me with your loud mouth and then I make a witty comeback that makes you really angry and attack me," he informed the beast.

It growled before it swiped at him with its four clawed hands missing him each time as he dodged easily.

"Of course I'm just gunna end up dodging each of your attacks while I mock you making you even angrier to the point where you attack one last final time before I finish you," he mocked.

The beast roared before it spun around and tried to hit him with its tail. Danny dodged by flying up over it. He floated back down after it had passed, but the beast brought it back for another attempt to hit him.

He just smirked as he reached out and grabbed the end of its tail as it swiped at him. He was flung about like a rag doll for a few seconds before he pulled the beast's tail to a halt.

"And this is where you get off the Danny Phantom express," he mocked. He started spinning the beast in a circle by its tail. Faster and faster they span until they had turned into a red twister. Danny released the beast, sending him flying off into the distance of the ghost zones horizon. "See you again in the future!" he shouted after the beast before he flew off.
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After about an hour of looking around for any sign of ghosts or other portals or doorways, he decided to use the Infi-map instead of doing it the old fashion way; something he probably should have done from the start. If only he wasn't a "C" student.

"This primitive ghost zone doesn't have any portals to the living world; so my best bet is to find one that takes me to the present day ghost zone," he planned. "Alright map, take me to a portal that goes to the future," he commanded the map.

It started glowing before it shot off into the distance with him barely hanging on. It swerved and dipped and spun around in circles many times as if it were trying to throw him off.

"Whoa! Easy there, this isn't a rodeo!" he yelled at the bucking map before it took off in a straight path for a swirling portal. "There we go; now hopefully it stays open long enough for me to get through."

His wish came true. He and the map sped through the portal moments before it closed behind him. With a spark of light he appeared though the other end of the portal and growled at what he saw.

The ghost zone was still a mess, but at least it was a more modern ghost zone. "I told the map to bring me to the future and it brought me too far into the future; perhaps I should have been slightly more specific," he figured as he looked at the map in his hand.

Suddenly he felt a great pain in the back of his head as something made of metal slammed into him. He rubbed the back of his head before he reached out and grabbed the metal container.

It looked just like a Fenton thermos only it had red lining instead of green. It also looked really old and beaten up, yet whatever it contained was still trapped inside.

"A Plasmius Thermos!?" Danny gasped upon realizing what it was. "This thing looks ancient," he said as he examined it. "Something is inside of it; I better not take the chance of opening it to find out what. But I know someone that can figure it out," he realized with a smirk. He clipped the thermos to his belt and took the map back out. "Take me to the realm of the Far Frozen," he ordered the map. "If it still even exists in this time period," he mumbled under his breath.

The map sped off once again and soon Danny was approaching the frozen tunnel that led to the ice world. The map stopped at the entrance so Danny had to take over flying the rest of the way.

He landed in the middle of the village to find it abandoned. "What happened here?" he asked himself as he looked inside random caves to find them filled with multiple feet of snow. He tried to enter one of them with a hand lit with ecto-energy, but he was chased back out by a hoard of ghost bats. "This entire village is abandoned. Did Vlad chase them all off?" he asked himself before he took flight over the village. "They can't die so they must have gone into hiding; but where?" Then the answer hit him. "If I wasn't a "C" student I would have thought of that a few minutes ago."

He took out the Infi-map again and unrolled it. He looked around until he found his current location.

"I may not know where they are, but this thing knows the location of all ghosts. And this time I'll be a bit more specific…take me to Frostbite," he ordered the map, and like so many other times so far, it sped off with him hanging on.
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The map took him deep into the ghost zone; so deep he had no idea where he was in fact. "This looks like the area where the portal to Kim Possible's world is," he figured as he recognized similar surroundings. "She wouldn't be able to help, I'm in the future and she's probably long since dead by now. Best keep going for Frostbite, after he helps me figure out what is inside this thermos maybe he can help me get back to my time period."

The map sped off into the horizon for quite some time after that, taking Danny deeper into the ghost zone than he had ever been before.

The trip finally ended when the map stopped near what appeared to be a floating volcano, and it was highly active; spewing hot magma constantly.

"Why would Frostbite be hiding in a place like this?" he asked himself as he flew towards the volcano. He stopped when the heat became too much for him to handle. He instinctively shot a beam of freezing energy at the lava, turning it to stone. "That must be how Frostbite is able to get inside," he figured as he flew to the top of the volcano. "He is a snow yeti so a volcano would be the last place anyone would expect to find him."

He leapt into the cater of the volcano and descended into its belly. It went down forever but he eventually reached the bottom. Ahead of him was a long tunnel lit only by the heat of the lava around it.

"Better get through here quickly or I'm gunna roast," Danny said before he sprinted through the tunnel as fast as he could. He came out the other side into a large chamber room lit by lava pools in the floor. "Sure wouldn't want to fall into one of them," he said as he looked into one of the pools.

It almost seemed too liquidy to be lava because he could see his own reflection. His reflection rippled away before it took the form of a monstrous face. It roared causing Danny to jump backwards.

He looked around as the lava pools rose and morphed into giant lava ghosts. Think of "The Thing" from the Fantastic Four only in lava form and that's what they would look like.

They surrounded him, trapping him in a circle of fire. "Leave intruder or you will burn to a crisp," one of the lava men warned him in a threatening tone.

"Burn to a crisp?" Danny asked mockingly as his eyes turned blue. "I think you guys should be worried about the sudden cold front headed your way."

He unleashed a fury of freezing energy waves on the lava men, turning them all to stone. Now surrounded by stone statues, he felt no need to keep his guard up.

He lowered his defenses and was attacked, not by more lava men, but by members of the far frozen. They trapped him in nets that he couldn't break free from. And for extra precaution, they froze him up to his neck in ice.

"HEY! I'm on your side!" he yelled at the ice yetis. "Don't you know who I am?"

"Yes, you are the one that chased our ancestors out of their homes in the realm of the far frozen," one of the far frozen ice yetis scolded him.

"What!?" Danny exclaimed. "But I would never do that! Especially after all you guys have done for me."

"Your punishment shall be decided by our leader," another ice yeti declared. "May he have mercy on your soul," he added in a dark tone.

"If your leader is who I think he is; I don't think that will be a problem," Danny said with a mocking grin.

The yetis grunted as they chained up the ice block and dragged Danny down another passage way and into another large chamber.

"Your majesty, we have brought forth an intruder that we think was here to finish us off for good this time, but we managed to capture him first," the first ice yeti spoke to their unseen ruler as he sat on a throne in the shadows.

"We also believe him to be the one that chased you and our ancestors out of the realm of the far frozen my lord," the second spoke.

"And we request your permission to dip him in lava for his evil deeds," the third requested.

The leader of the ice yetis stood and walked out of the shadows. He appeared to be quite elderly. He had horns made of ice and his entire left arm was made of ice as well, you could even see the bones of his arm through the ice. Frostbite was still leader of the far frozen ice yetis despite his increase in age, which seemed to be quite drastic considering he was a ghost.

"Do as you please with him," he said with a wave of his hand as if to shoo away an unwanted pest.

"Oh so this is the thanks I get for everything I've done for you?" Danny argued as the block of ice he was trapped in was dragged over to a platform that was rigged to lower him into a lava pit. "I saved you from Pariah Dark…TWICE!"

A lava beast grabbed hold of a lever and waited for his order to release him into the lava below. "Shall I lower him sir?" he bellowed.

"Hold up just a second," Frostbite ordered him. He stomped down from his throne and approached the ghost boy. "Who are you?" he asked on a very curious manner. He seemed rather confused and taken aback by the fact that this ghost boy was claiming to have saved him and his people from the King of all Ghosts.

Danny turned into his human form and walked out of the block of ice. In his human form he could walk through seemingly solid objects, so he wasn't trapped any longer. In the ghost zone, he was the ghost.

"I…am a very old friend," Danny stated simply, with a large grin as he looked up at the leader of the far frozen people.

"The Great One!" Frostbite gasped before he took a bow before the young hero as he transformed back into his ghost form.

"The Great One?" many lava men questioned in confusion. They turned to each other as some shrugged.

"The Great One!" the far frozen yetis that had captured him bellowed before they bowed just as their leader had.

Frostbite reached out and grabbed Danny in a tight bear hug, squeezing the life out of him with glee. "Danny Phantom! It has been millennia since I have last seen you." Danny coughed making Frostbite realize he needed to let him go. "Where have you been all of this time?"

"To make a long story short," Danny wheezed, "I'm time traveling and I'm trying to get back to my own time period. So how long has it been since you said you last saw me?" Danny asked out of curiosity.

"About seven millennia," Frostbite answered him. "Or about seven thousand years," he added. "I know you're bad at math so I simplified it for you."

"Gee, thanks," Danny sighed. He looked down at his stomach as it started to growl.

"What is the matter Great One?" Frostbite asked in a concerned tone.

"I guess I'll have to give you the long story to explain that one," Danny informed him. "Do you think we could get something to eat?" he asked. "You may not have seen me for thousands of years, but it seems like a few days since I've last eaten anything."

It was true that he hadn't really eaten anything in a while. He was given the chance to eat in Walker's prison, but everything went downhill from there, and he did eat while in the dream world, but because anything that happened there didn't affect him in real life he never had anything to eat by then either. The last time he could even remember eating was the last day they were still in the Kim Possible universe.

"Has it really been that long?" Danny asked himself. He was brought out of his thoughts by Frostbite's laughter.

"Oh of course we can get you something to eat," Frostbite answered him. "And you can tell me everything that has been going on up until this point."
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An elegant feast was prepared for Danny at his request. Apparently the lava people were very good cooks. They certainly knew how to prepare a hot meal. While Danny ate until his heart was content, he told the story of how he was sent into another dimension and defeated Freakshow. He went on to tell the story of what happened after he got back to this world. Being captured by Walker and imprisoned in a dream created by Nocturne. He told how he managed to escape and found his way back to Vlad where he fought his and Danielle's evil clones created by Vlad. They took him on a trip through time in a desperate attempt to ruin his past so he wouldn't exist in the present, although the clones saw it more as a game and went about causing havoc rather than trying to eliminate him and Danielle.

Frostbite was intrigued by all of this. "So how was it that you managed to end up this far in the future if you were left in the past with no way of getting back?" he asked.

"I used this," Danny said. He pulled out the Infi-map and handed it to Frostbite from across the table before he went back to eating. He didn't recognize it until he opened it up and his eyes widened.

"The Infi-map! I haven't seen this in ages!" he bellowed. "How is it that you came across it?" he asked. He was completely stunned by all that he was taking in.

"Well my guess is that Vlad stole it from you shortly after Danielle brought it back after it was stolen by Pariah Dark," Danny figured. "Danielle managed to steal it back from her dark clone and gave it to me. I used it to find a way to get into the ghost zone and then to a portal that would bring me to the future. Unfortunately I wasn't specific enough and it brought me to a portal that brought me to this future; way ahead of my own time period. I used it to find you here," Danny explained before he took a massive bite out of a corn cob. "And thash bashically ish," he said with a full mouth.

"This is all just too wonderful," Frostbite said gleefully. "I was beginning to lose hope that a savior would come along. So I take it you will probably be needing my help Great One?" he asked.

"Yes, but first you have to explain a few things to me," Danny insisted. "First off, where are we and what are you doing here?" he asked, indicating the floating volcano they were in. "And who exactly are these lava dudes?" he asked as he pointed his thumb at a lava beast wearing a cooks apron as he picked up some dirty dishes from the table he and Frostbite were sitting at.

Frostbite merely bellowed with laughter. "The lava people are really a friendly race of ghosts that reside in this volcano. Despite us have freezing powers, we have an very unlikely alliance with them. They allow us to hide here from Plasmius' wrath and we offer our services to help them keep their home safe from intruders. We are able to survive here because our freezing powers keep us from boiling in our own hides."

"That makes sense, so how long have you known them?" Danny asked before he took a long gulp of boiling water. He burnt his mouth and spat it out almost immediately. "And could I get something to drink that's NOT boiling please?"

"Of course Great One," a lava man said with a bow before he headed off to fetch him something else to drink.

"I have known of the lava people since even before I met you Great One," Frostbite informed him. "I've just never mentioned them because they like to keep to themselves. They never venture too far from their home because it is the heat from this volcano that keeps them alive."

"Is that so?" Danny asked as he took a sip of liquid from the cup brought to him. It was still hot but he was able to keep it down this time. "How is that?" he asked.

"The lava people are of course made of "lava"," he explained. "The heat of this volcano keeps them from solidifying. If they venture too far away from their home, they will die."

"I didn't think ghosts could die," Danny stated.

"It is all a matter of how a ghost dies that's the catch," Frostbite told him. "If a ghost dies of natural causes, we cease to exist; unlike if we are killed by other forces, in which case we are simply reincarnated as another spirit. It is not too long now before even I pass onto the non-existent plain. I am getting fairly old for a ghost; it won't be too much longer for me now."

"That's a real shame," Danny said sadly before another question came to mind. "You said that if a ghost is killed by un-natural forces, they will be reincarnated? How does that work?"

"Oh that isn't really my area of expertise," Frostbite informed him. "Even I am not old enough to know the answer to that. Only the most ancient of ghosts that are not affected by time can give you a straight answer."

"Ghosts that aren't affected by time?" Danny asked. This seemed to spike his interest in the manner. "You mean like Clockwork and the Observants?"

"Precisely," Frostbite confirmed. "Unfortunately he and the two lord Observants went missing shortly after the Infi-map was stolen from us by Plasmius. It is my guess that it was Clockwork's staff that allows Vlad to control time now. Luckily for us he doesn't know the full intricacies of the staff so he can't use it in ways that he once hoped. I have no doubt in my mind that the theft of the map and Clockwork's disappearance are somehow linked."

"Knowing Vlad he probably imprisoned him or something," Danny figured. "Speaking of Vlad-" he removed the Plasmius Thermos from his belt and placed it on the table. "I found this shortly after arriving in this time period. It's a Plasmius Thermos, Vlad's equivalent of my dad's Fenton Thermos. There is something inside of it but I don't want to take the risk of opening it only to find an enemy that could kill me or something. I was hoping you would be able to study its contents without opening it."

Frostbite took the ghost catching device and examined it closely. "Well you were right about there being something inside. I shall have my best scientists get to work on it right away." He ushered over a far frozen yeti and handed him the thermos. "Take this to the lab and study its contents, and be careful not to open it without my approval, we don't want to risk letting whatever is inside loose without knowing if it is a danger or not."

"Yes my lord," the ice yeti stated before he walked out of the eating area.

"If you wouldn't mind Frostbite, I'd like to oversee the procedure, you know just as a precaution," Danny requested.

"As you wish Great One," Frostbite allowed. They stood from the table and followed the ice yeti scientist to another room at the end of another lava lit cavern.

They watched as he placed the thermos into a circular hole in a circular metallic stand in the middle of the room that almost seemed to have been made to examine the contents of it. The red linings of the thermos started glowing brightly as computer monitors built into the stone walls of the cavern flickered to life.

A strange formula of information in a strange language that Danny didn't recognize appeared on the screens, although the lava men appeared to be able to read it just fine.

"We are reading three different ecto-signatures from within the thermos," one of them translated.

"Send them through a list of all known ghosts then bring up the results on the holographics," Frostbite ordered.

The lava men typed some commands on the computers before turning to a circular stand in the middle of the room. Light protruded from the center and produced the holographic forms of Clockwork and the two Observants.

"Oh the irony," Frostbite said with a sigh as he squinted his eyes half shut.

"OPEN THE THERMOS!" Danny yelled as he sprinted and grabbed the thermos from the machine scanning the inside. "We have to get them out of there!" he half yelled as he untwisted the top.

A large explosion of ecto-energy and light was emitted from the thermos as three ghosts flew out and took on their natural forms.

"After seven millennia, we are finally free," one of the Observants proclaimed happily upon being set free from his imprisonment.

"We wouldn't have been imprisoned in the first place if Clockwork had done anything to foretell our situation," the other Observant pointed out.

"You two also have the power of foresight," Clockwork reminded them. "Besides, if you two had been doing your jobs in the first place, we wouldn't have been trapped in that blasted thermos!" he argued as he turned from his adult stage into his infant stage. He then turned to Danny and cocked an eyebrow. "I may have been out of the loop for seven thousand years, but I know for a fact that you shouldn't exist anymore."

"He is from the past," the first Observant observed. The other closed his eye and nodded in agreement.

"The past?" Clockwork asked confusingly before he turned back to Danny and turned into his elderly stage. "So you managed to find your way to the future while fighting Vlad who is now in control of my staff no less?"

"Well actually it was the Infi-map," Danny answered. "My evil clone led Danielle, Jazz, Kim and myself to the past where I was left behind. I then managed to find a way to get into the ghost zone and used a portal to come to this time period."

"Interfering with the temporal displacement of past time lines is strictly forbidden," the second Observant warned.

"That is a code four violation of the space-time continuum," the first Observant added.

"Oh will you two give it a rest," Frostbite bellowed. "Clockwork my lord, shall I bring you up to speed on all that you have missed?"

"That is not required," Clockwork said, putting up a hand to prevent him from speaking unneeded information. "I may have been free for only a few seconds, but my powers have no limits. I know everything and I shall learn as time passes all that is going on."

"But in the mean time, we should put all rules aside and help young Danny get back to his own time period," Frostbite spoke up. "He is the best hope we have of fixing the time streams."

"That is strictly forbid-" both of the Observants started to say in unison before they were encased in a block of ice.

Danny's hands stopped glowing blue as he powered down. "Although we want to help, I can't. Without my staff or the time portals in my tower, I am unable to create a portal to your time line," Clockwork said disappointingly.

"But there are always loop holes," Danny said with a smirk before he glanced at Frostbite who knew exactly what he was thinking. He pulled the Infi-map from his waistband and opened it as it started glowing brightly. The view zooms in on the map before the scene ends with a blackout.
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medafan53 [2011-07-23 07:51:05 +0000 UTC]

who is the ghoust danny didnt know was that old

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TrojanHalks2012 In reply to medafan53 [2011-07-23 13:57:51 +0000 UTC]

Oh, that's Behemoth, the Ghost that Vlad fights with in "Million Dollar Ghost" so he can get the Skeleton Key.

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