AN/: Hey guys sorry for the delay, had finals and all. I Posted this one on Mother's Day, at like 11-ish specifically because it was requested to have Clockwork mothering the Phantoms and I threw in a little Nocturne there because, who doesn't like Uncle Noccy?

Anyway Enjoy and Review

DISCLAIMER: I do not own Danny Phantom


Mother

Nocturne was rudely awakened by the sound of furious knocking on his door.

He knew it wasn't Clockwork, the bastard would just teleport into his room, like he did the evening before.

While he did manage to get a bit of sleep, thanks to the aforementioned Master of Time, his headache was very much present, that's what he gets for being nice.

The knocking continued, and some how it seemed even more obnoxious than before.

The ones knocking, so insistently at the door, where the Observants.

"Nocturne, Master of Dreams open this door at once!"

He did.

"What?!"

The Observants took in the Appearance of the Dream Master, he did not wear his Purple horns, his long black locks were thoroughly dishevelled and he had a sour look on his face, which clearly stated that he just woke up.

"Did you just wake?" Asked on of the Observants.

Nocturne rolled his eyes.

"Yes I did, now if that's all you came to bother me for, I would like to get back to sleep".

That said, the Dreamweaver turned and began closing the door. This seemed to make the Observants unhappy as one lashed out quickly and effectively stopped the door from closing.

Nocturne's eyes widened, while the Observant's eye narrowed.

"You were sleeping on the job?! How disgraceful! You've been loitering around all this time, not doing your work and disrupting balance, so much so that the council sent us here, to check on you, they'll be disappointed to know that you were simply being lazy and uncouth!"

Nocturne's eye twitched.

Uncouth? Lazy? After all I'm doing? How fucking dare they!

He would forever blame that his tiredness was the reason.

The reason he snapped.

"Listen here you one eyed mother fuckers, I am not Clockwork, you can't come barging in on my lair, talk to me like that and expect me to put up with it, as a matter of fact he shouldn't have to put up with it either! I've been busy, that's why I'm tired and that's why I was asleep!"

"Oh?, and what was your business pray tell."

"You egotistical pricks know very well that, about a week ago, the council held a meeting in activesin-"

"Yes and I recall, you were not to be there, so that is no excuse"

Nocturne rolled his eyes.

"No I wasn't there, I was babysitting for Clockwork, you should know that-"

"For only 48hrs, that couldn't have been the reason you're oh so tired".

The Observant looked smug.

"No it's not, but it is the reason Clockwork was though, you of all beings should know how much energy it takes to fix and or destroy a timeline, let alone five. Yet you assholes still held the meeting in activesin, you didn't even give the poor bastard a moments rest-"

"I still don't see what this has to do with you being-"

"That's because you sad fuckers have an eye the size of your heads but yet you're fucking blind, when Clockwork came back, you know what happened? Core exhaustion, he came back literally sick and tired-"

"So-"

"So, I had to take care of him, for that entire week you gave him off, that barely even covered it, he should have gotten a week and a half at least since you wouldn't give him the two weeks like everyone else"

"That still doesn't explai-"

"I didn't sleep the two nights I was babysitting nor did I sleep the week Clockwork was ill-"

"Why? You wasted your own time, you have no one to blame but yourself, you didn't have to-"

"No I didn't have to do anything, but you wanna know why I did? Because I fucking care you selfish assholes, I care that's why I helped, and that's why I haven't slept for more than an hour in a week and four days, the night before I returned to my lair and started work, I continued till I got a headache, which by the way I still have, I was trying to sleep it off when you all had the audacity to call me lazy and uncouth"

"You claim you worked, but the council members have not seen it-"

"I have other work besides giving those bastards their good dreams, do you think the Sleep dust makes itself? I have to make more and restock, which is what I was doing yesterday, now if you'd excuse me, I'd like to go back to sleep so I can get rid of the even bigger headache you all gave me"

The door slammed shut so quickly this time, the Observants had no chance to stop it.

The door then opened again, Nocturne came out glaring. His aura was very threatening.

"If you think you're going to pester Clockwork about this, think again, if I find any of you at his lair, for the rest of this week," he pointed at them, "it's gonna be me and you, and trust me, while Clockwork has more patience, I have a lot less mercy"

The door slammed shut again, this time the Observants gulped audibly.


"Squirt, go left!"

"On it!"

"Kid move your ass!"

"What does it look like I'm doing asshole?!"

"Watch your language you little fucker, maybe you should be a little like Squirt over there, she's got manners, she listens and she's doing a hell lot more than you!"

"Well excuse me for not having as much energy as my younger kid clone!"

"Uh, guys"

The gargantuan monstrosity came closer, the two male Phantoms were still arguing and remained unaware.

The ghost, they were fighting, was for a lack of a better term, freaking huge, it looked like a giant brown bear, mixed with a goffer with a black, cone like, horn on its head. Its claws were long and sharp and the bastard knew how to use them, its fangs leaked an ectoplasmic foam, making it look rabid.

The Phantom trio had managed to weaken it a bit, but not with out injuries to themselves. The rest of the original team Phantom where handling the Fentons, the giant ghost had punted the RV all the way to lake eerie.

That left them without weapons and without backup, the beast was a slowish, but heavy hit, which meant dodging more than attacking, and of course that frustrated them to no end, the boys especially.

"Your always bossing me around, I know what I'm freaking doing!"

Danny was pissed.

"You don't know shit, the only thing that gets you out of your messes is luck!"

Dan's hair was crackling with his rage.

"Uh guys?"

Dani was left floating off the side of the two, watching as the goffer-bear thing came closer.

"How 'bout you say that to my face, you jerk!"

"If you haven't fucking noticed, I did say it to your face, you fucking idiot, but if you don't want it in words, how 'bout my fist!"

Dan had grabbed Danny by he neck and was about to punch him in the face, when Dani got fed up.

"WOULD YOU TWO JUST FREAKING SHUT UP AND MOoooOOOooOve!"

Her ghostly wail was far more high pitched than the boys, and it may have not been as strong but high pitched sounds have always hurt the ears more than the rest of the body.

The beast thrashed about, it's weird paws trying in vain to cover it's assaulted ears, Dan and Danny, we're unfortunately doing the same.

Dan snapped out of it first, grabbing Danny and throwing him behind Dani, he landed roughly, but was able to get back on his feet, albeit shakily. Dan turned to mist and followed the suit. Dani kept up her wail and the boys followed.

If you were there you would have seen a strange sight, Dani's wail fit into Danny's, which fit into Dan's and the triple sound wave blasted the beast into non-existence.

The second the beast was destroyed, Dani stopped and a white ring around her mid-section flashed as she turned from ghost to human and fell unconscious.

Danny and Dan had stopped as well and caught the falling child.

"Damn squirt"

"She did the wail, she's only 13, oh that's not fair!"

"Hey you got yours early too, you know"

"Yeah but she was still in the air when she did it, the first time I learned I had to do it standing!"

"Same, little brat learned some tricks"

"Yeah and she saved our behinds today, even if I'm gonna be a bit deaf later"

"Oh please, you were already hard of hearing before, don't blame squirt for your problems"

With that, Dan Phantom quickly picked up Dani out of Danny's arms and carried the unconscious child to Fenton works.

"Dan you jackass!"

"Heh heh"


Dani awoke about an hour later to find herself bandaged but alone in the lab.

Confused to why they left her there instead of taking her to a room, she went upstairs and looked around. She found no one, strange, she was about to leave the house, when the news on the T.V caught her attention.

"Another large group of ghosts, are attacking downtown Amity Park-"

That's all Dani needed to hear, she went ghost and took off.

"Kid, I'm not gonna tell ya to move your ass again!"

"Look man, I'm trying my best here!"

The two were back to back, blasting any ghosts who came too near, they've been fighting for half an hour, their aim was slightly off at times, as if only to prove their ever growing exhaustion.

"Well try harder!"

"Would you just get off my back?!"

"Unfortunately no, you die and Clockwork's gonna maim and torture me"

"I thought you were gonna say kill"

"I'm already dead kid"

Danny was about to retort, when suddenly one of the ghost came straight up to him with a charged plasma ball. The Phantom boy's eyes widened in horror, there was no way that wouldn't leave a scratch.

A green plasma blast came from out of nowhere, and blasted the ghost away.

"Hey guys need some hel- woah!"

She barely dodged a blast from another ghost, her body had still not fully recovered from the strain earlier. Dan noticed.

"Squirt, you've done enough"

"But-"

"Get back and go home"

"I just wanna-"

"Look, you're too weak, go home, we can handle it"

"But"

"Dani, I hate to agree with Dan, but he's right, you need to leave"

"Fine!"

With that she let loose a charged blast, that neither male realized she had or was capable of. The blast took out a good eight ghosts, The Phantom males looked back to question their youngest only to see that she already flew off.

A narrowly dodged blast to Dan's face reminded them of their current situation.

Meanwhile Dani flew back to Fentonworks with tears pricking the corners of her eyes, she however refused to let them fall. When she reached, she went straight through the lab and into the portal.

"If they think I'm weak, fine, I'll get stronger, I'll show them and I know exactly who can help me"


"You want me to train you?"

"Yes"

"Just like that?"

"Just like that"

"Alright, but I have to ask, what brought this on?"

"Well, you've taught me many things before-"

" History lessons and a little fun with telekinesis, are hardly many things"

"Clockwork come on! I just wanna get stronger so I don't have to depend on anybody"

"Child it doesn't matter who or what you are, powerful or not, you always need to depend on someone, it's nature"

"Wha-? Oh! Not like that, I meant so that I would get strong enough so that they won't have to worry so much about me"

Clockwork sighed.

He was about to say something, when she cut him off.

"I get what you mean though, like you and Nocturne, you're all powerful and all that, but you still need help sometimes, that's why you're there for each other"

Clockwork chuckled.

"I see, good to know that our first lesson got through"

Dani giggled.

"I already said I would train you, so come, but be quiet, Nocturne's asleep"

"He's here? Why?"

"We'll train then we'll talk"


The training room was underneath the Library, like a would be basement of sorts, if of course the basement looked like a high-tech work out/gymnastics facility.

"Wow, work out much?"

Clockwork was going to say something about the child's sarcastic tone, when he realized that it was more awe than sarcasm.

Dani was wide eyed, looking at the high beam, to the Monkey bars, she was pretty sure the left wall was a climbing wall, there were pull up bars and some other things work out gear she couldn't name.

When she turned to Clockwork, who had a raised brow but was looking amused, she blushed, but getting so caught up in wonder wouldn't do her any good, so she schooled her features into a determined one.

Clockwork noticed and smirked internally, the child was tired, slightly injured but yet 100% determined, she'll make quite the student.

While both Danny and Dani considered Clockwork their Mentor, other than history lessons and a couple tidbits of life advice, this would be the first time he actually trained, well at least one of them.

"OK, let's start with the things you know, we'll test your speed, strength and accuracy, then we'll work on the improvements"

"Right!"

"Speed- 125mph, well done"

"That's not nearly as fast as Danny is"

"Actually it's faster, well at least than that of when he was 14"

"Yeah, but he's 16 and he's at 130 something mph!"

"Yes, but you're 13 going on 14, yet you're faster than he was"

"Well yes bu-"

"And you learned your ghostly wail today, yes? Dan Learned that at 24, Daniel learnt it at 14 and you at 13 and even so you handled it quite well, for a longer time than either of the older Phantoms and while flying, a feat neither of them could do on the first try"

Dani tried to say something but the words wouldn't form, she ended up looking like a fish. Clockwork chuckled and gently lifted her chin. He looked at her at eye level and spoke to her with compassionate eyes and cool yet firm voice.

"You want to be independent, you want to be strong, so stop comparing, yourself to the other two, you are your own person, if you want to get stronger, you become stronger, not by trying to beat them, but by reach their level and further, but things like strength take time, and I have time, do you?"

Her eyes blazed with determination and she gave a bold nod.

And then her determined eyes flashed with something else.

"I can't believe you made a Time pun, I'm so done with you right now, you've been spending way too much time with Danny"

Clockwork chuckled.

"I'm surprised you caught that"

"Hey, I'm an attentive listener"

The Time Master quirked a brow.

"At times"

They laughed.


"Alright, a deal is a deal, our training session's over for today, tell me why O'l uncle Noccy is here and by the way, when do I come back for another training session?"

"When are you free?"

"On weekday afternoons, when Danny and the others go to school, I would come here to bother Dan but he says not to wake him before noon, and I rather not mess with an even grumpier than usual Dan"

"Ah that's right, you don't go to school, remind me why again?"

"Because as a twelve year old, I knew things a fourteen year old knew, it's pointless to send me to a middle school when I already know the stuff there, so Jazz says, when I'm fourteen, she'll enrol me into Casper High herself "

Clockwork sighed.

"Very well, but you do know I won't always be free at that time"

"Yeah, I was wondering how would I know if I training or not, I don't wanna fly all the way here and find out that you were too busy, then I'll have to go back and be bored"

"Hmm, I have an idea, we can work out the details later, after you clean up and come back"

Dani looked down at herself, blushing when she realised that she was still a bit dusty and grimy from the day's earlier activities and now some sweat and a little ectoplasm clung to her like a second skin.

"Sure thing, but you still need to tell me why Nocturne's here"

"Well a deal is a deal"


The Master of Time was watching his Time Screens when he sensed a portal open up behind him.

He knew the ghostly aura so he didn't bother to turn around.

"Hey Clockwork!"

"Yes?"

"Hi!"

At the reply, the Temporal ghost, quickly spun around and raised a quizzical brow at his friend.

At seeing said friend, Clockwork couldn't help but sigh.

"Nocturne what did you do?"

"Nothing!"

The Dream weaver was a little too cheery.

"Oh really, what where you doing before you came here?"

"I was working"

"On?"

"Stuff"

"Nocturne!"

"Fine, fine, I was working on making some Dream dust from the poppies at Hypnos' cave"

"Nocturne, you do know that those things are loaded with a copious amount of Oxytocin, right?"

"Yep, and a bit of an aphrodisiac!"

Clockwork grimaced, his friend was being far too chipper for his liking. It was only worse when Nocturne hugged him from behind.

"Nocturne?"

"Hmm?"

"Why are you hugging me?"

"Because you're warm"

The simple reply was all that was said as the Dream Master buried his head in the curve of Clockwork's neck.

Said Time Master's tone went from annoyed to concerned.

"You're cold?"

"Mhm"

"Poor baby"

"Don't be mean"

"Kinda hard to do when you're nuzzling my neck like a love sick puppy"

His response was a harder nuzzle.

"Why where you working on those anyway, weren't you tired?"

"Yes, and I was trying to sleep when those one eyed assholes came knocking at my door"

"The Observants? What were they doing there?"

"They wanted to tell me that the council was wondering why I wasn't doing my job"

"And what did you do?"

"I told them off"

"Good for you"

"I ended up with a headache 'cause of those bastards, I went to bed, but couldn't sleep, so I went to try to deal with the essence extraction from the flowers"

"And let me guess, when you were trying to extract the essence, it blew up?"

"Mhm"

"You said it was a partial aphrodisiac right? Did you remove it?"

"Nope"

"And why not"

"Because mating season"

"Mating season is months away"

"Yes but it makes it easier on me"

"How so?"

"If couples want to mate, they mate and prudes like you can just sleep"

"I am not a prude"

"Suuure"

"But really, why were you messing with the poppies?"

"To help you"

"Oh?"

"Mhm, your stupid insomnia, wanted to fix it"

"Pfft, if it was that easy"

"It is, I just gotta figure it out!"

"Sure"

The Time Master rolled his eyes.

"But really, how high are you right now?"

"On like a level of one to ten?"

"Yes"

"Like an eight, yeah eight seems right"

"Oh you poor thing"

"Don't be mean, I wasn't mean to you when you were sick"

"True, but your high as hell, and your lair is probably covered in the stuff, so how 'bout you stay in one of my guest rooms?"

"-K, but carry me"

"And why should I?"

"Because I carried you that Wednesday"

"I couldn't feel my legs!"

"I carried you Wednesday, Thursday and Friday"

"Fine I'll carry you"

"Good"

With that Clockwork carried his friend up to the guestrooms piggyback style, all while Nocturne, nuzzled and nipped at his neck.

"Would you stop, messing with my neck?"

"Mmn, nope!"

Clockwork sighed.

"The things I do for my friends"

When they finally reached the guest room, Clockwork deposited Nocturne on to the bed and the Dream Master practically passed out on contact.

The Temporal ghost rolled his eyes but covered his friend with the sheet.


"And he's been asleep since".

Dani laughed.

"So that's why you have a hickey?"

Clockwork's eyes widened and he pulled at his collar frantically.

"I have a hickey? I don't have a hickey. If I have a hickey, I'm gonna kill him!"

"Pfft, naw, you don't, just messing with ya!"

"You devil child!"

"Heh, bye Clockwork"

"See you later, Danielle"

As soon as Dani left, Clockwork headed up to check on his 'guest'.

Finding the Dream Master still asleep, he went down to his Screen room to call a certain someone to help him get a gift.


When Dani reached the boys had just reached as well.

"Where were you Dani?"

"With Clockwork, I'm heading back, after I shower"

The boys looked at each other again then Danny elbowed Dan in the gut.

"Ugh, fine, hey squirt?"

"Yeah?"

"Look I'm sorry, about today, I didn't mean to call you weak, I meant to say you were hurt and you wouldn't really help"

He then face palmed.

"That didn't come out how I wanted, what I meant was-"

"I get it, thanks Dan and you too Danny, I know someone had to get him to talk"

Dan rolled his eyes and Danny chuckled.

"We'll go with you to Clockwork's"

"What?! But the boxing match!"

Danny glared at his future self.

"Fine, we'll go see the ticking bastard!"

"Cool," beamed Dani, "hey cheer up Dan, maybe he'll let you watch the boxing match"

And that he did.


Well kinda, as soon as they reached the boys found themselves ushered to the couch, where ended up being dotted on by Clockwork.

When Dani had finished taking a shower the boys took one and then they left, neglecting to bandage their wounds. Dan, because he refused to look weak and Danny because he thought they'd be healed by the time he reached.

Clockwork commended them on their stupidity as he proceeded to wrap the gauze around Dan's left shoulder. He had already finished with Danny's midsection.

When the Phantoms had been thoroughly bandaged Clockwork walked off only to reappear with a hot and a cold pack. The Time Master gave the packs to their respective ghosts, and by respective I meant opposites. He gave the hot pack to Danny as his muscles were numb and the cold pack to Dan as his muscles were sore.

"Oooh, that's gonna leave a mark", winced Danny.

"And so will that", this time Dani winced.

"Oh please, I can do those move in my sleep"

Both Dani and Danny turned to Dan.

"Shhh!"

The eldest Phantom blinked in shock, while Clockwork laughed quietly behind him.

Nocturne came shuffling down a few minutes later, however Clockwork was the only one who saw him.

"Hey"

"Hey, yourself"

"Rude"

"Hardly, so on what level are you now?"

"Eh, from eight to like four or five, it's deal able but tomorrow's gonna be hell"

"You can count on that"

"What are the kids watching?"

"Boxing"

"Huh, didn't take them for boxing fans"

"Where not," piped Dani from the side, apparently she did see Nocturne's arrival.

"Dan likes it because he can watch violence with out getting into trouble, Danny watches it to make Dan doesn't do anything stupid and I watch it to makes sure they don't fight, in the end, we all kinda ended up liking it, though we have know idea who the person is or what their names are, we just like the punches 'n stuff"

Nocturne shrugged.

"Huh fair enough for me"

With that he looked to Dani and opened his arms, the little girl understood and willingly accepted the hug.


Third round through, Danny and Dan were lounging on the couch, no one else sat with them despite the space, only because every so often one of them, sometimes both, would rise and yell angrily at the screen.

Nocturne sat hugging in Dani in his lap, his arms were crossed on her middle, leaving an 'X' on her midsection, while his chin rested lightly on her head.

"Hey Clockwork, I'm a teady bear"

The female Phantom giggled at the Time Master who was beside her.

Said Temporal ghost shook his head but smiled anyway.

"Better you than me"

"Heh, true"

"Oh, here before I forget"

Dani watched as Clockwork pulled something out of his cloak.

Dani's eyes widened when she realized what it was.

"Is that a-"

"Yes, yes it is"

A Midnight Purple 3Ds with lots of little temporal gear stickers around it.

"It's yours, to keep you occupied when you can't train or when the others are to busy."

"Oh wow, thank you, but-"

"This will also be your signal, to join me for training, you leave this on your drawer, if it disappears, I have it and the only way for you to get it back-"

"Is if I come train, right?"

"Exactly"

"Thank you Clockwork"

"Not a problem My dear"

"How did you get this anyway?"

"Oh, I have my ways"

Dani rolled her eyes at the sly smirk Clockwork gave her.


AN:/ for any of those wondering, Oxytocin is a hormone that the body produces naturally, but of course someone had to make a drug out of it. It's called The "Cuddle drug" or the "Social enhancer". It's normally used with to build an attachment or bond from a mother to her new born child. It's also the reason we can socialize and such, it can be slipped into a drink like a roofie or something, it usually leaves someone "clingy". Though it's not really an aphrodisiac, if the advances of the "clingy" person are taken , well one thing would lead to another.

So basically the flowers had a shit ton of Oxytocin in it, poor Nocturne got doused and he got high off it. Because It's really one of the mild drugs he wouldn't have lashed out or anything, he just became clingy, he kept nipping and nuzzling Clockwork for the same reason and also because the flowers themselves had a slight aphrodisiac tendency, but since Clockwork didn't respond to the advances and because the poor guy was tired he stopped and opted for sleep.

He still woke up clingy though, hence the need for the teady bear Dani.

I'm gonna continue this bit, with two other short parts, because this one was long enough already. They'll be called Gift and Training, the first will be focusing on how Clockwork got the 3Ds and the Second would be Dani's training with said Time Master.

Don't worry I'll still be taking requests, I'll maybe even join your ideas with my own to make things interesting.

Speaking of requests, I was going to put Poly's one in here about Clockwork and Nocturne fangirling about something, but that would have killed the whole, motherly thing, you know? Don't worry dear, I will have them doing that in one of my other drabbles, but for now enjoy the Phantoms being "enthusiastic" about boxing.

By the way, I do have a Midnight Purple 3Ds and it's awesome, I currently have, SSB4, Kirby, Legend of Zelda a Link between worlds, Mario brothers, Luigi's Haunted Mansion etc. So yeah those are the games Dani now has XD.

Anyway you guys know the drill, send me your requests, and I'll write 'em, ask me your questions and I'll answer them, send me your reviews and I'll smile like the little nut I am.

Love yall ^-^