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"Don't you understand yet!? You cannot stop me! I'm inevitable! I'm still here! So you still turn into me!" Dan shouted with an echoing laugh that could chill the very earth. The inhuman monster stood over his younger, more nieve self, an inescapable future. Dark red eyes and flaming white hair glowing to illuminate pale blue skin. It was a vision out of hell.
"I'll never be like you. I promised them I won't." Danny groaned, trying to push himself up out of the crater he had been knocked down into. His eyes went to were his family, his friends... and Mr Lancer(?), were tied to a giant tank of rapidly heating greasy sauce that would explode at any minute. He needed to keep fighting. He needed to win. He didn't have time for doubt.
Dan began to laugh. "How childish can you get." The monster said, clearly seeing more humor in the situation than Danny could. "You promised?"
Danny gritted his teeth as hate burned in side of him. "Yes... I... PROMISED!" Danny's voice broke as power surged inside of him, a sonic blast coming from his mouth, the power turning into a visible wave that tore through everything as it progressed. The sonic scream hit a shocked Dan head on, ripping through his defensive aura and throwing him around like a rag doll as the power tore thing his body.
Dan was smashed into a large pillar, the ceiling collapsing in on his head. "Im...impossible." He said as he tried to push himself up. "I'm not supposed to learn that move for another ten years."
"Well then." Danny said know standing over the monster, trying to catch his breath from the sudden use of the attack. "Consider this a blast from your past." Danny took a deep breath and unleashed a second ghostly wale, more powerful than the first, continuing until he had nothing left and Dan was groaned into dust.
Danny fell to one knee, all his strength leaving him. He transformed back into his human form, hardly having the strength to stand.
"No... I need to..." Danny mumbled trying to take a step towards his tied together family and friends... and Mr. Lancer. "I need to..." He tried again to summon up his power. To transform so that he could save the day. But he was just too weak. His eyes were stuck on the boiler, seeing the meter ticking into the reds. "No."
The tank exploded, pieces of metal flying everywhere as everything Danny had ever known was tone to pieces in front of his eyes. "No!"
"Time out." The world froze around Danny who blinked. He was back in Clockwork's tower again. The aged ghost standing in front of him.
"My... my family. Sam. Tucker." Danny said weakly, his brain falling apart along with his heart.
"Are safe." Clockwork said, waving his staff so that glass lens came down, showing everyone safe, living their lives. "I undid all of the middling which lead up to the unfortunate situation you had just found yourself in. Everyone is alright."
"They... their alright." Danny said his brain starting to get air again as he began to breath properly. "Why? Why did you do all of this?" Danny said, not sure whether or not he was angry or just drained.
"I created the situation where Dan would appear so that I could have the power to undo it. And the reason it was important for you to experience it, is so that you can understand what I must do." Clockwork said, walking back to his mental again and grabbing his scythe. "I am sorry Daniel, but for the sake of the future. Your existence must come to an end."
"What? But I thought that Dan isn't going to appear. Is he really inevitable?" Danny said, his heart breaking again.
"No... but he is likely." Clockwork said. "Daniel, I can see all possible futures. And in a little more than ninety eight percent of those futures, you lose yourself and destroy nearly all of life on earth within the next three years."
"But... why?" Danny said, was he truly just evil deep down.
"Daniel. You aren't evil. At least not yet. But the simple fact is... well... your life is just kind of shit." Clockwork said. Danny's jaw dropped open in shock. "Your school life is harsh, your family unhelpful, your social life is rather bleak, monsters attack you night and day, and the people you try to defend hate you. You are a good spirited boy. But sooner or later, the stress will be too much and your ghostly nature's desire for revenge will take over."
Clockwork waved his staff again and the lenses into the future started to show hundreds of events, each one was Danny snapping from the stress and going kill crazy. "I'm sorry Daniel. Please understand what must be done."
Danny's head lower. Before he would have fought back. He would have struggled tooth and nail to survive. He would have denied that it was his future. But after the events of that day. Seeing everything that Dan had done, what he could have become. He had lost the will to fight it. "I... understand."
Clockwork's ruby eyes looked down at him with pity. "Would you like to say goodbye to your loved ones first?" Clockwork asked. Danny shook his head, tears coming to his eyes. If he saw their faces, heard their voices. He wasn't sure he would be able to go through with it. "I understand. May you have peace, in your reincarnation."
Danny's head snapped up. "Wait, wha..." That was as far as he got before the scythe came down and his world disappeared around him.
Danny's senses were all confused, noise and touch all seemed stronger than they should have. His arms were so heavy and he couldn't bend them very far. He tried to open his eyes but everything was a blur.
A voice echoed outside of his vision, saying something he couldn't understand. He felt himself being lifted through the air, passed about by forces he couldn't understand. Then when he finally stopped moving he found himself looking up into the face of a giant woman.
Then things started to come back to him, he remembered what had just happened and realized that the woman was normal sized, he was just tiny.
His mouth opened. 'Clockwork! You bastard!' He wanted to scream, but all that came out was the first cries of a newborn baby.
New semester means new story. The subject being one of the first animes I ever watched, so something that holds more nostalgia for me then probably the rest of you. You see, my house was an anime free zone growing up, so I couldn't watch it whenever anyone else was around, and when I could I would be entering in the middle of a show and have no clue what was going on.
This is the first anime I was ever able to watch from beginning to end, because my friend lent it to me after I got my own laptop and could just pretend to work while watching it.
This is much closer to the standard opening of Danny losing his family after TUE then I usual ever get. But I hope you all forgive me the cliche.