There's nothing but serene silence in the living room as Danny gets a well earned rest. It didn't last very long, unfortunately for him. Dani pounces on top of Danny's chest and giggles. "Wake up! Wake up!" Danny peeks open an eye and groans. "Happy Birthday, cuz!"

Clockwork sighs from behind the couch. "Danielle, let the poor man rest. He had a very busy day yesterday."

Danny stretches and lazily sits up, pushing Dani into his lap. "It's alright, Clockwork. I'm awake now."

Hiro sleepily makes his way downstairs with no one noticing.

Dani's eyes fill with excitement as she looks up at Danny."So, what do you wanna do today?! Maybe we could make a cake? Dad, do we have the things to make a cake? Let's make a cake! Oh! Maybe afterwards we could go see a movie! I don't know what movies are showing in Japan at the moment, but I'm sure we'll be able to find something we like!"

"Danielle…"

Danny is just staring at her with this look of pure overwhelment as she just keeps talking. "Oh! Or we could build a pillow fort like you used to when you were little!-"

"Danielle, I'm afraid he has more important matters to attend to today. We all do, actually. His is far more important than anyone else, though. Now, come with me, your highness. We have a lot to discuss."

There's a sound of unintelligible talk-coughing coming from behind them. Clockwork turns to see Hiro choking on his breakfast icecream. "Y-your highn-ness?! As in, like, a king?!"

"Precisely."

Danny groans. "Please don't make a big deal out of it like Mr. Tightass over here. I'm just the King of the Ghost Zone as of today. So what? All I'm doing is leaving everyone I love behind! Now, can we just drop the subject, please?!"

Clockwork sighs, laying Danny's outfit for the day on the coffee table. "Very well, but we will discuss it at some point. Now, get dressed. We're going out."

There was about to be further argument from the stubborn 18 year old until a trio of gasps are heard from the ghosts. Danny smirks and goes ghost. "Hello, misplaced aggression!"

Clockwork glances out the window, still frustrated with Danny. "Seeing as it is only Vladimeir, I don't see why you can't fight him yourself."

Danny grins. "Thank you!" He begins to fly away before Clockwork speaks up.

"Oh and Daniel." Danny stops and looks at him. "Demonstrabit ei opera misericordias."

Danny smirks at his boldness. "Faciemus!" And with that, he flies off to Plasmius.

Hiro is left standing speechless. "What was all that?"

Clockwork smirks sarcastically. "Latin isn't a dead language. It's the language of the dead."

Danny floats face to face with Plasmius. "How sweet of you to remember my birthday. Is your present the gift of me kicking your butt back to Wisconsin?"

The cheesehead vampire frowns. "I'm not here for you, Daniel. Now, move aside. I have a job to complete."

"Oh, that's funny because I don't care!" He punctuates this announcement with an ectoblast to Vlad's face.

Vlad, thrown off by the blast, crashes to the ground. "You little brat! You know it's routine for me to throw the first punch!"

"Oh really now? Well, too bad, already did it!" He playfully sticks his tongue out as he prepares another blast.

"Let's make this quick, shall we? You show me where your instructor is, I kill him, I allow you to kick me in the rear because it's your birthday, and we all go home happy. How 'bout that?"

"Or…" Danny's eyes glow blue as he freezes Vlad chest down, forcing him to fall to the ground. "You could just disappear and stop stalking me. I'd suggest space, but it's too good for you."

"Why on Earth should I listen to you?"

"Because I'm the birthday boy and I said so, fruitloop."

"Very well. I'll comply to your little request for now, but I will return. I couldn't possibly miss those eyeballs ripping poor old teacher limb from limb, afterall!" He smirks. "They're coming sooner than you could ever imagine, Daniel. Say your goodbyes before it's too late." With that, he teleports himself elsewhere.

"I have to warn Clockwork!" He pauses as he thinks about what he just said. "Wow. This is the plot twist of the century."

Danny phases into the apartment and turns back into a human. "Clockwork!"

Clockwork tinkers with his staff as he sends a disinterested look to Danny. "I heard all of it. The one advantage to having big ears. Anyways, he's likely lying to you to send you into panic. Take it with a grain of salt."

"But-!"

"Listen to me for once, Daniel. It'll do you no good to panic over something that likely won't happen for a while." He finishes his tinkering and makes the staff disappear. "Now, get dressed. Everyone is waiting in the car."

As soon as Clockwork leaves, Danny goes ahead and puts on the black t-shirt and red flannel. He had slept in his jeans, so now all he needs to do is put his Converse on. He then goes outside and joins everyone else in the somewhat cramped pink VW Beetle.

Honey Lemon looks back at Hiro, Dani, and Danny, smiling. "Is everyone buckled up and ready to go?"

Danny smirks and raises an eyebrow, a sarcastic remark sitting right on the tip of his tongue.

Hiro knows exactly where Danny's going with this and chuckles. "Just humor her so we can go to Fred's."

Dani, being oh so observant, finally takes the time to count the number of people in the car. "Wait. Are we seriously going to leave Dan home alone?" The very thought of it makes her quite uneasy.

"Of course not." He holds up and shakes the thermos from side to side. "He's right here."

"I SWEAR TO PARIAH, IF YOU DON'T STOP SHAKING THIS THERMOS, I WILL OPEN THE LID AND PUKE ALL OVER YOU!"

Clockwork chuckles lightly and puts him in the cupholder.

The whole team stands in Fred's spacious backyard. Four of which are confused as to why they've been summoned. Hiro gets Baymax set up as the others talk amongst themselves.

Gogo looks over the ghosts as Clockwork releases a grumpy Dan. She pops her gum and stares a moment longer. "So, do they just multiply or something?" She completely glosses over the fact Tadashi now looks like a creepy ghost. Honestly doesn't even surprise her.

Clockwork side glances his possy. "No. Not often…mostly in battle."

"Seriously, though!" Wasabi points at them, still creeped out by every part of this situation. "They look like Russian dolls!"

Gogo smirks. "Yeah, are they gonna go hide inside of each other?"

Dan grins mischieviously, cracking his knuckles. "I could make that happen."

Clockwork glares at him. "Dan, no!"

"But, I cou-"

"Nope."

Dan crosses his arms. "Fine…"

Fred finally finishes setting up the course as ordered and turns around to see Danny. He drops everything that he's holding and his jaw. "Oh my god. Are- Are you Danny Phantom?!"

Danny looks at Fred wearily. "Ummm… Yeeeeees? How do you know me?"

Fred excitedly gets out his copy of the first issue of the Danny Phantom comic book series. "I've read every issue. You don't even understand how awesome you are! I mean, I'm sure you know, but I mean like to other people. Could you sign this?"

"Oh, sure. I don't have a pen, though."

Fred pulls a Sharpie out of nowhere.

"Do you always keep that on you?"

Clockwork clears his throat. "I hate to interrupt your fanboying, but we have more important business to take care of."

Honey Lemon curiously points at the Phantom trio. "Do you mind explaining them first? I'm honestly confused too."

Clockwork sighs deeply and pinches the bridge of his nose. "Quickly." He points to Danny first. "He's the original. Classic edition if you will." His finger trails over to Dan. "He's an alternate older version of him that got fused with his archenemy. And finally," He directs his finger towards Dani. "She's a clone of him created by his archenemy. There were others, but they didn't survive."

Gogo pops her gum once more. "So, to sum up, his archenemy is insane?"

"I prefer the phrase 'crazed up fruitloop' to describe him." Danny smirks at her.

Clockwork redirects their attention to him. "Now, you've all been called here to train. I've only told Fred and Honey Lemon amongst you four this, but my bosses are after me. On a hunt and destroy mission to be more accurate. Because of my disobedience as of late, they wish to end my existence. They've been sending several different ghosts to get me, all of which we've been able to defeat. That's not the problem, though. They're on their way to get me themselves. I don't know how powerful they are, I must admit, but there's thousands of them and I need your help. Feel free to introduce yourself to Daniel as we're working, but we do have to make sure you're prepared to face ghosts. While Danielle and Hiro are working on upgrading your suits, Dan, Daniel, and I will be helping you learn how ghosts fight and how to defeat them."

Danielle goes around and passes out her ectoguns as Clockwork continues to explain things.

As he speaks he gets out a key and removes Dan's power reduction collar. "These are called ectoguns. They're filled with heated ectoplasm. I'm giving you these so this is a somewhat fair fight. Are you prepared? Or do you have further questions?" When he receives no reply, he flicks the cape of his cloak around him and disappears to his chosen hiding place. Dan follows suit.

Danny just stares at where they were standing for a moment. "Man, I have to get myself a cape!" He creates a smoke from dry ice and disappears to his hiding spot.

"Whoa! Ghost hide and seek!" Fred exclaims, causing Gogo to roll her eyes.

The humans look around for them in silence, but it doesn't last long. There's a rumbling under their feet as part of the ground begins to glow and crack. There's a loud growl as the ground bursts open. Dan flies out of the hole and lands in front of them with an eerie smile on his face.

The dramatic moment is ruined when the group hears a 'psst'ing from the tree. "Dan! What did I say about destroying property?!"

Dan shoots him a glare and growls deeply. "I'll clean it up when we're done!"

Clockwork rolls his eyes and sighs. "Sure you will…" He jumps down from his place in the tree since his hiding spot was revealed.

Dan scoffs in offense. "Are you doubting me?"

"Perhaps."

Dan's eyes glow in frustration as he forms a mini thunderstorm above Clockwork's head.

Clockwork pouts for a moment then smirks. "Is that really the best you can do?" He puts his palm out and uses his core to suck the flames off of Dan's head. He chuckles. "Childsplay."

Dan growls once more. "Put. It. Back!"

"Clean up your theatrical mess and we'll talk."

Dan launches himself at Clockwork and Clockwork simply dodges him and laughs subtly as Dan falls flat on his face. "Are you done with your hissy fit?"

Dan extends his claws and begins trying to slice open his face. Clockwork grabs his arms mid swing and flips him onto the ground, going down with him and pinning him down.

Dan becomes flustered at Clockwork's strength that he can't help but just stare at him in amazement. He quietly leans in and tries to kiss his lips. He ends up missing in his daze and kisses his nose. Clockwork is completely thrown off by this. The poor Master of Time's face lights up like a Christmas tree as he sits up and holds his nose to hide the fact that it's twitching like crazy. Dan chuckles and takes advantage of his awkwardness by pouncing on him, pinning him down just as Clockwork just did to him. They both just laugh for a moment before Clockwork grabs his face and kisses him. He pulls away with a smirk. "Now that we've had our fun, clean up your mess." He pats Dan's cheek and flies out from under him.

Dan nods and begins to do as he was told before he realizes. "Hey! How'd you do that?!"

"Lets just say there's some advantages to seeing all of time. It allows you to know everyone's weaknesses." Clockwork nonchalantly replies as he sits himself back into his place on the tree.

"No fair! You're crippled! You shouldn't be able to defeat me!"

"Don't use such harsh terminology, Dan. Either way, just because I'm older than the hills, blind in one eye, and missing my legs doesn't mean I'm weak. In fact, these flaws make me stronger."

Gogo rolls her eyes. "Is the old married couple done bickering? I'd like to actually learn how to fight ghosts."

"Were we supposed to be taking notes?" Fred asks aloud with his hand up.

Danny never left his hiding spot and is honestly confused about what just happened. He pops out from within the fountain. "Did I miss my cue?"

Clockwork watches as Dan cleans up his mess. "I apologize. That wasn't what we had planned. But, it is a good example of how to anger a ghost."

Dan looks up at Clockwork. "Alright, I'm ready."

Clockwork sighs. "Let's try this again."