The fight against his evil future self-was brutal. Danny was overpowered, pummeled around what was left of the Nasty Burger. With his friends and family along with his teacher stuck against the boiling tank. With each passing seconds, his family and friends are coming to their end, the young half ghost is and for the first time in his life absolutely terrified. His evil future self-has shown him how powerful he was and in return made him feel powerless, all of his fights against those entire ghosts looked nothing like his fight with Dan. Danny was in a race against time and he was losing badly, all of his attempts to strike back have been with cruel and vicious retaliation. For Dan this day could not get any better, his goal in breaking the mind of his past weak self is slowly coming to reality and securing his existence is becoming more solid. For now, the only last thing he needs to take care off is the lives of his former loved one who he came to hate immensely. He now stood victoriously with his foot against the chest of his past younger self with a malicious and smug grin spreading across his face.
"You monster, I will never become like you" the young halfa spat
"Don't you get boy, I'm still here which means you will become me whether you like it or not."
"I will NEVER become like you, I AM BETTER THAN YOU." The young ghost screamed while blasting the evil ghost in the face.
Dan held his face while staggering, he has to admit that the boy caught him by surprise but nonetheless he did not do that much damage.
"I would have come to admire your determination and commitment to your morals and ideals but I grew past those petty human concepts, maybe some ghosts are loyal to those concepts but I'm not one of them." The evil ghost said to his younger self.
With Danny's anger surpassing its limits, the young ghost launched himself at his evil future self without caring for himself. The only thing he had in mind was tearing the monster in front of him limb from limb, he punched, kicked, and blasted the bastard with everything he had and for a moment, he seemed to win until the evil incarnate emerged from the smoke caused by his last attack unscathed. All of his confidence and anger seem to vanish the moment he saw Dan unharmed, smiling in a mocking matter.
"Is that it? Is this everything that the great Danny phantom is able to throw at me, this is just sad."
Danny was unable to utter a single word, he was exhausted and his willpower was non-existent. He looked at the ground with tears forming in his eyes. He looked at his incapacitated family and imagined what they would say witnessing his colossal failure.
"Come on little brother, there is still hope." He imagined his sister saying to him. Typical he thought.
"Come on son; kick his ectoplasmic butt back to the ghost zone." That what his father would say in a situation like this.
Even if those words were few they managed to give him, back his fighting spirit.
"I will make you eat fudge, I mean my fists." Typical Jack Fenton, Danny thanked god he did not have his father craving for fudge.
"I don't want to die Danny; I still haven't got the new digital note pad."
Danny Stood, his leg trembling and barely holding him. He panted from sheer exhaustion; he could not afford to lose, not with the lives of the ones he cares about and love.
"I will not let you take my family from me." The young half-breed declared.
"Foolish boy, you still don't get it do you?" Dan said as he charged at the boy with the intention of breaking him.
Danny saw the mad ghost flying at him full speed and drew a big breath, he then released the biggest ghostly wail and poured every bit of energy he had into the attack but to his miss fortune, his evil future version vanished before the attack could hit him. He looked around anxiously, still hoping that he did it until he felt a powerful impact on the back of his head. The attack was so powerful that it sent Danny flying to the other side of the street, Danny crashed into the window of a shop. Barely awake, Danny tried to get up but he was too hurt. His felt like someone jack-hammered his brain, his chest ached and it hard to breathe, his arms and legs felt like they were on fire due to the sheer pain.
"Boy you don't get it, I'm you only ten times better and smarter, and did you really think that I wouldn't know about your ghostly wail? I admit it was surprising that you activated that power this young but that doesn't matter." The evil ghost said with a smug grin all over his face.
The two ghosts heard an explosion, at that Danny's heart sank; he was now alone in a world that did not care about him. Everyone he cared about is gone.
"Oh look, they here and there and everywhere HAHAHAHAHAHAHA," Dan said as he laughed maniacally.
"TIME OUT"
The two of them heard a booming voice; suddenly everything stopped moving, it did not take the two of them to realize who was behind it.
"Again with his meddling, I will just kill him like I did before," Dan said in annoyance.
"No, all of the pain and suffering you caused ends here." Clockwork said.
"You could not stop last time, what makes you think it will work this time?" Dan said
"On the Contrary Danny, I already stopped you."
"Don't call me Danny again; I am not the same foolish boy you can affect with your petty words," Dan said, as soon as he finished those words he felt immense pain in his chest. It was so painful that he was unable to stand on his feet. He tried to check for blood*or ectoplasm* but he could not find a thing. The only thing present on his chest was a large and deep cut.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME YOU BASTARD?" Dan shouted.
"None that concerns you, your will be gone in a matter of seconds." The time master said.
As Clockwork finished those words, cracks appeared all over the evil ghost's body, his body started breaking apart to pieces, each piece turned into dust, and even the dust vanished. With one final scream, filled with agony and pain the evil ghost was no more. The time master floated toward the young halfa extended his free hand to boy who took it as Clockwork helped him stand up.
All of this suffering and pain is over but still, the loss of everyone he cared about was too much for him to handle.
"What did you do to him?" Danny asked.
"I erased him from existence young Danny." Clockwork said while putting his hand on the boy's shoulder, he could sense that his pain was beyond anything he ever saw.
"Don't be sad young Danny." The time master said in a soft tone.
"How could I not be sad when I just saw my family getting blown to bits?" Danny spat.
"No Danny, they are not dead." The ghost said while pointing his staff to what appeared to be several people floating in some sort of green energy field.
"I don't understand." The boy said, sighing in relief as he saw them unharmed and well.
"For beings calling themselves observant they are quite short sighted, they see the time line as if a human is seeing a video or watching a movie, for me I see everything, every small turn and twist will not go unnoticed."
"So you knew that this will happen?"
Clockwork nodded, confirming the boy's suspicion.
"I saved your family, but in doing so I did more damage to the timeline. Now it is weak and fragile for me to rewind time and fix everything."
"I see, now what are you going to do?" Asked Danny
"I will repair as much damage as I can to this time line; however, your presence is causing too much strain for me to act."
Taking the hint Danny knew what Clockwork meant, given an ultimatum, it was either his existence or the existence of everyone.
"I understand Clockwork, do what you must," Danny said accepting his fate.
"Who said anything about erasing?" Clockwork said hinting something more.
"What do you mean by that?" Asked the confused half ghost
"Follow me and you will know what I mean." The master of time said as he opened a portal to the ghost zone.
Hello and welcome to my new Story * Sacrifice *. Now the first chapter was kind of Danny getting his ass handed to him by his evil future self and then karma hit the evil bastard like a train. Now I know that there will be a lot of explaining but I promise you that the next chapter will cover it mostly… I think. I have great plans for this fanfic and I hope you enjoy reading it. Good fudge… I mean day.
