Prologue

POV - Clockwork

There were moments, few and fleeting though they were, in which Clockwork found himself surprised. These moments were called fixed points, and were the one true weakness Clockwork possessed. For in these moments Clockwork was struck with an infinite number of new possible timelines coming into existence, and all the other infinite possible time lines ceasing to be possible. To creatures like the Observers, when something had happened, then all other possibilities were forgotten, discarded, and ignored. For Clockwork, those other possibilities were just as real as the one he was present in. This is because of his ability to control and change time.

However, fixed points were different. When a fixed point in time occurred Clockwork could no longer go back. He could observe, he could even change small details, but when a fixed point happened it would always happen, no matter what was attempted in the past. On a day in the nineteen eighty's, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On this day one Jack Fenton set into play a chain of events that would redefine reality as it was known.

Jack, unwittingly, caused the injury and genetic mutation of his friend Vlad Masters, and created something new which had never before occurred. Clockwork had seen something similar being a possibility before in many other realities, but the odds of a portal connecting the ghost zone to the human world opening exactly where a person was standing had been so astronomically low that he had never looked deeply into those timelines.

And yet, now Clockwork was hit by a wave of emotions as he experienced all of the possible futures that would arise from this new fixed point. Clockwork watched as Jack married Maddie and they conceived a child named Jazz, then another named Daniel. The second child Daniel, or Danny as he most often grew to be called, was at the epicenter of so much in so many realities. He would be the center of countless critical events in countless possible time lines. Clockwork watched bewildered seeing all of the pain the boy ever would, and could experience all at once, and then Clockwork began to cry.

It was slow at first. Unconscious tears pouring slowly from his eyes. This then progressed into an uncontrolled sobbing. Clockwork had seen pain and suffering before on scales beyond comprehension, but never like this. Because, as Clockwork peered into the life of this boy he saw something he had never seen before, a friend. Clockwork saw the many countless ways he met the boy and the friendship they formed. In an instant Clockwork almost lost himself at seeing the immense pain this boys would be subjected to throughout his life. It was more than the immortal could bear.

After the brief instant in which Clockwork experienced all of this, he felt a presence emerge beside him. It was one of the Observers here to comment on the new fixed point. "This future, we did not see this coming, why did you not warn us of this?" the ghost lobbed it's accusations toward Clockwork with frustration clear in it's voice. "This time could lead to the ruin of us all! We created you for the express purpose of preventing timelines such as these from coming into existence. You must fix this at once!"

As the Observer finished it's accusations Clockwork turned towards the ghost. He looked at the being with rage filling his eyes. These ghosts had always frustrated Clockwork, but this was beyond the normal frustration their limited views cused him. This thing, had the audacity to demand he erase this timeline, the only timeline in which Danny would ever exist. Clockwork, for a moment lost himself. Though for one who controls time, a moment is an eternity. Clockwork spent several hours in that moment. He would destroy the observer in countless ways for that idea before rewinding time to do so all again. In that moment Clockwork took as much of his rage and frustration as he could out on the unfortunate ghost.

Then, having rewound time, one last time, he turned to the Observer calmly, his rage having been vented. "I did not see this either, it is a fixed point. You know I can neither see, nor change these events once they have occurred. All I can do now is change the course of time from this point on. The rest is beyond me." Clockwork said all of this before feeling very drained. He felt as though his very being had been shook by the creation of this particular fixed point.

The Observer turned from clockwork in frustration. "We can only see the most likely future as you know, and we are not allowed to intervene. However, you must do so for us. This creature that had been born and will be born, this Halfa, could be the ruin of us all." With that the observer left Clockwork to his thoughts.

Clockwork looked down at the event unfolding before him in present time, and he couldn't help but be excited for what the future would hold.

Thank you, if you managed to read this and make it to this point. Feedback is always welcome. For part of this story I will be taking (with permission) ideas from a fellow writer FriTik and his Danny Phantom story Gone Ghost. If you have yet to read it I would highly recommend it. He updates fairly often and seems to have a strong story progressing.

I will also be accepting submissions for ghosts to appear within the story. Ghost only however, and obviously the more detail the more likely I am to accept said ghost. The acceptance will be at my discretion and I will only be accepting them if I feel the add to the story. I won't be changing the story I have just for your ghost to be in it.

That being said I have a general story idea, and some stops I want to make along the way. Beyond that I am open to suggestions and have a wide need for interesting characters. Nobody want's this to be a repeat of the over 700 pages of Danny Phantom stories on this site, so lets get some new and exciting stuff in to this.

For now, that's about all I got.

All the best,

StoneSmith