Mumbling to himself a blue skinned ghost with red eyes looked at the time mirror in front of him. On his chest was a clock and he wore a purple cloak held on by a black gear clasp, purple gloves, and a black belt. His lower body was that of a spectral tail and in his right hand was a scepter that had a stopwatch on top of it.
He slapped his forehead upon seeing the same event happen yet again and reversing time all around the planet. Also due to the artificial portals of both Vlad Masters and the Fentons it was effecting all of the Ghost Zone. Only his lair was unaffected as he watched the same explosion happen to Daniel Fenton once, twice, four, eight, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096 times in a row!
To make it even more rough, the Observants were oblivious to it for some reason and kept on asking him to repeat the same day's events over and over again. "ENOUGH! IF IT HAPPENS ONE MORE TIME THEN I WILL PERSONALLY END ALL OF EXISTENCE!"
Clockwork shouted to the heavens as the Observants returned, but before they could do a thing he spoke. "Dont you even dare say a thing to me you blasted eyeballs! This is the 4097th time you have come to me to kill Daniel Fenton/Danny Phantom due to those blasted time reversions! I'm letting that incident happen before going to the boy myself and getting him to work as an agent for me. NOW GET THE FLIPPING HELL OUT OF MY LAIR!"
Not once seeing the time master so angry the two Observants did the only thing they could at the moment. Flee, flee like the hounds of hell were on their tails and that the end of the world would start at any second now. After making everything happen so Daniel would gain his ultimate power, he waited just a second after the explosion happened and the black haired teen with ice blue eyes was blown back unconscious.
He then made the heat in the inferno equivalent of a nuclear bomb going off to erase all organic matter and make it seem like the halfa had died. It was fine for a moment before he suddenly placed the surrounding area that was causing said time loop inside an accelerated pocket of time until the incident was dealt with and resolved.
Letting out a sigh though Clockwork waited for a few moments as he looked at the unconscious boy that was now in his lair. His left eye with the scar over it twitched slightly as he turned from an old man into an infant to a man.
With that he let out a sigh and started to hover the halfa up and placed him in a different room where he could recover. After this the time master then proceeded to make Fenton Works disappear, but not after grabbing a few useful things out of it like blueprints, a couple of thermoses, some spear weaponry, and a photo of the halfa's family and friends. It could never hurt to be too prepared in this line of work seeing as time was always moving and never the same thing twice.
-|:-:|- Time Skip - One Week -|:-:|-
With a groan one Danny fenton opened his tired eyes and rubbed the back of his head in pain before speaking. "Ohhh… did anyone get the number of the truck that hit?"
Suddenly his mind was assaulted with images of what happened, the C.A.T.s, him getting the answers of the test, meeting Clockwork with his friends, going to the future, fighting his future self, his future self going back in time, him gaining a new power, just managing to get back in time, fighting his ultimate enemy, and finally the death of all those he held dear.
With teary eyes he looked around and noticed that he was in some sort of bleak room with grey walls. There was also a heavier atmosphere and he could hear the sound of thousands of ticking clocks, therefore he was in Clockworks lair.
Suddenly said time ghost floated in via the door to the side and placed a picture of his family and friends down before speaking. "It is nice to see you again Daniel, and my condolences on your loss. I would normally do something to have prevented this but my hand has been forced and I'm running low on employees. For now… just take all the time you need and come find me in the central chamber when you're ready to talk."
Clockwork then left the room and Danny himself alone to his thoughts as he prompt himself up to look at the photo. He grabbed it and cried for what felt like days on end until he was unable to do say anymore (Five months in five hours thanks to Clockworks help). The next thing the halfa did was stand up and walk towards the location that he knew the time ghost would be at.
Suddenly Danny stopped as he watched Clockwork bang his head multiple times in a row on a metal gear for some reason. Each time the time ghost did so the gear got a little more bent, and each time he was muttering the same thing under his breath. "Lyoko… Lyoko…. Lyoko."
"Ehem… sorry you had to see that Daniel, certain… things have come up and they have been driving me a little nuts lately."
Slowly Danny nodded as he looked at the time ghost a bit wearily for a moment as the damage done to everything repaired itself. "Ehem… now that you are done I have some things to explain and it's up to you what you want to do."
With that Clockwork proceeded to explain that he needed an agent of some sort to help deal with everything, because he was after all only one being. In turn for being an agent of the time master Danny would in effect be granted a sort of immortality, and would be sent out for missions of a variety of natures. Before this he would be trained obviously to have complete mastery over all of his powers both obtained and unobtained.
He would also be given varying amounts of time off between each mission obviously since missions could last for a few hours to possibly centuries. If this wasn't enough the fact that he would be allowed to revisit any place he went to so far would probably be a huge benefactor for him so he could stay in contact with any friends he makes along the way.
"Alright… I'll do it, just go easy on me till I can get a hang of everything and how it works around here… please." Danny spoke and rubbed his neck as Clockwork smiled at having finally being able to solve lots of problems at his disposal.
-|:-:|- Time Skip - Unknown -|:-:|-
Training, more like hell! Danny had never been threw so much torcher before, the only bright side was the benefits.
He had managed to combine both his halfs somehow so he now had snow white hair with raven black highlights. His eye's were ecto-green with ice blue specks in them and he wore a grey hooded shirt, black jeans, and a pair of brown hiking boots.
In the pocket on his shirt was a pocketwatch with multiple hands on it, some telling time, others pointing towards holes in time, and others that help direct him to whatever destination he wanted to go. The last one was very helpful since he could open up portals, and he could use them to navigate the paths between dimensions.
His power was at the point that he could easily make 20 duplicates, and use the Ghostly Wail at least five times before losing consciousness. A huge benefit in his opinion was that he no longer needed to eat, drink, or sleep as it were unless he wanted to.
Right now he had to deal with a few Observant's by delivering Clockworks by-century report on all the actions he had to do. It was going badly to say the least and Danny had the distinct feeling that he was currently repeating the same thing over again. Despite this he continued to half listen to the Observant's rant before teleporting out of their lair and back to his bosses.
"Hey Clockwork… did anything recently happen in time, I have the strangest feeling of deja vu for some reason."
The ancient time ghost raised an eyebrow for a moment before letting out a tired sigh and looking at one of his time mirrors. "So you have finally noticed it… there has been a recent problem in France lately with someone reactivating the time reversion project of one Waldo Francis Schaeffer of better known as France Hopper."
On a few different screens images of at least five different kids appeared with the time ghost listing them off as they did. "Jeremy Belpois, Ulrich Stern, Odd Della Robbia, Yumi Ishiyama are the original four to discover a project by the name Code Lyoko. Inside of this world France Hopper's daughter, Aleita was trapped and they did their best to try and rescue her from the evil clutches of Xana, a computer AI that wants to take over the world."
Danny looked at the time mirrors as it showed various news reports, incidents, and the occasional destruction of thousands of things. "At the moment Alieta is out of the computer but Xana implanted a virus into her meaning that if Lyoko is turned off so will she. There is only one person who can help her, Frances Hopper who is currently a permanent residence of the digital world. Or… they could try to get her memories that Xana stole but that is most likely a trap for when they figure it out."
The halfa let out a sigh as he continued to look at the time mirrors and studying every aspect in them before speaking. "So you want me to go to France and either do something to stop the time reversions or find a way to save this guy so he can save his daughter correct?"
The smirk on Clockworks face was slightly worrying as Danny looked at his boss as it were. "You are partially correct Daniel, I have here a program disk from the future that you can use to find and recover Mr. Schaeffer. While it's running you are also suppose to go and add a special circuit to the computer core which will only affect those that are registered in the Supercomputer itself. They would be the ones sent back in time and remember everything without everyone else being affected as well and not remembering."
The halfa nodded as he summoned a toolbox from his lair and grabbed the things he was provided on the way threw Clockwork's time mirror.
-|:-:|- Scene Shift -|:-:|-
With a sigh Danny started to reconfigure the Supercomputers core itself while he left a duplicate to watch over the scan. He also decided on a little sabotage and quickly made it so that Xana couldn't mess with anything for the next 48 hours. This way if the time reversion had to happened Waldo would already be out and he wouldn't need to do this thing again.
Besides the occasional ark of electricity all the corrupt AI could do was fume about being unable to prevent this from happening. "Alright, this figure connects to here, I put this thingamajig there, and cross this, with this thing and… done."
Danny slammed the cover shot as a smile crossed his face and with that he sent his toolbox back to his lair and phased up to the computer. "Anything yet?"
The duplicate looked up at the original and shrugged before looking at the computer screen and speaking. "Nothing really… Clockwork's keeping the kids from coming here until we get our job done so we won't have to worry about anything like that."
With that the two were quiet as they looked at the computer screen while the progress bar showed 98% completion, 99% 100%. "Found him."
The Danny's spoke at the same time as they looked at the green plus on the screen before activating the recovery program. The fun part was explaining to Waldo that he was ten years into the future and that he was saved by a ghost. With that the original went down while the duplicate went about getting the disk back before joining up with the real halfa.
-|:-:|- Perspective Shift -|:-:|-
A man with grey hair and sunglasses groaned as he stood up from within the cylindrical chamber he suddenly found himself in. "Uhg… wha… what happened… Xana! I got to get out of here before Xana manages to destroy… me?"
France stopped talking as he saw a glowing white boy who stood in front of him with a raised eyebrow and his arms crossed before speaking. "Yeah… you may want to stop for a moment and actually take a look at your surroundings before jumping to conclusions Mr. Scheffer."
-|:-:|- Time Skip - One Hour - I'm lazy -|:-:|-
Waldo sat in the computer chair looking over the supercomputer's programs while thinking about what the ghost next to him had said. He was actually shocked that ten years had gone by in the real world while he was in Lyoko and about the scientific discovery of actual ghosts. Even more surprising was the fact that one was next to him and was responsible for rescuing him from the digital world to put an end to Xana once and for all.
He was now going over the data that one Jeremy Belpois had managed to gather about the virus so far that was implanted in his daughter. "You know… I never quite imagined the implications my research would reach or how far the time reversion would go. I just thought that it only affected me and not everybody else."
France spoke as he continued to type away at the keyboard while Phantom leaned against the nearby wall. "Yeah, Clockwork was surprised as well but you managed to only make it powerful enough to repeat a signal day so he left it alone for the most part. It was just the whole repeating the same day almost 5000 times in a row that sent him over the edge."
Another awkward silence fell upon the two and the only sound that could be heard was the clicking of keys on the keyboard. "On another note Xana will be inactive for the next 48 hours… make that 46 hours now. So there's no need to worry about him at the moment, and if you can get the program done in time you won't have to worry about him again."
France nodded in response upon hearing his as he was continued to work away at an anti-virus. "Phantom… will the… the MiB still be after me and my family?"
The inventor glanced at the halfa next to him who was in thought about something before pulling out his pocket watch and speaking. "If anything just change your name to something like… Gregory Stone and they should leave you alone with some help from my boss. He should make a whole cover story on saying how you came from Canada and it would be so airtight they won't be able to pick it apart."
The inventor gave a small chuckle at the prospect of being a free man before frowning as he thought of his wife. As if hearing his thoughts though Phantom closed his pocket watch and looked directly at him before speaking. "Don't worry about your wife, Anthea hasn't remarried yet due to a little interference from my boss saying you would return. In fact the Hermitage is still owned under an alias of her's so you still have a home, a bit of a fixer upper home, but still a home."
Now a soft smile appeared on France's face as he heard of this before suddenly freezing in place upon hearing the sound of the elevator activating. Glancing over at Phantom showed him looking at his pocket watch again with a ghost of a smile on his face before speaking. "Looks like the groups three seconds later then expected… don't worry about it France. Your daughter and her friends are just on their way to hang out here since it's safer to talk here then at the school."
France let out a small sigh of relief before going back to the computer and trying to finish the anti-virus program for his daughter.
The elevator dinged and as it opened the group of talking kids suddenly stopped as they saw a man sitting at the computer. The inventor just glanced out of the corner of his eye's at the group before typing away like it was nothing unusual.
It was quiet as the Lyoko warriors continued to look at the man who did nothing but type away at the computer like they weren't even there. Looking over they saw Phantom looking at his pocketwatch and without looking up he spoke. "Yo."
"Not again!" Odd shouted out of surprise upon seeing the two but was more interested in the fact that France Hopper was at the computer.
"There is no need to shout Mr. Della Robbia, though I can understand your feelings. Xana is a tricky being and would have no doubt impersonated me beforehand to make you all feel inadequate and tried to destroy your trust in each other. I should have never created him but alas… I needed to destroy something that the MiB tricked me into building."
France spoke without even looking up from the computer as the Lyoko group took a step back, the three fighters getting ready for combat before hearing Phantom speak. "If you plan on attacking France while I'm here then you sort of have another thing coming, especially when my employer has some plans for him and his daughter."
The group were frozen in place having completely forgot about him for some reason as Alieta turned to look at him. A few seconds after looking at him though the girl seemed a bit hesitant but managed to speak anyways. "Phantom… Danny Phantom… from Amity Park, Illinois?"
WIth a nod Phantom watched as the group burst into surprise with Odd falling onto his knees saying he was worthy, Yumi staring at him with wide eyes, Ulrick with wide eye's, Jeremy's glasses were slipping off his nose, and Alieta had her hand over her mouth in shock.
France though had a frown and stopped what he was doing for a moment to turn around and speak. "Was there something you forgot to tell me Phantom?"
The halfa rubbed the back of his neck nervously as he put his pocket watch away and chuckled before speaking. "Actually… I may have left out a thing or two on how people either view me as a hero or villain depending on who you ask. I had a rough start which was the reason for the conflicting views before you ask."
France raised an eyebrow before letting out a tired sigh, and pinching the bridge of his nose he shook his head and spoke. "Your lucky I need to complete this antivirus program for my daughter before the end of the next day Phantom. Otherwise I would go and actual investigate these reports and decided for myself whether you are a hero or villain. Ghost be damned, I would do anything and everything in my power to keep you away from Aelita."
The entire group was shocked with the exception of Phantom as France let out a sigh and started to explain things. "Alright… I guess I have to explain some things to you all."
The Lyoko group continued to look at France as he let out a sigh before finally going on about the past, why he created Lyoko, and what happened to lead them to the virtual world. As such the group was more than surprised as Phantom suddenly spoke up and explained the MiB's true intentions of world domination. Little to say everyone was surprised as he mentioned the GiW offshoot of the main branch to eradicate a possible threat to their plans. To bad the group was literally incompetent when it came to their goals allowing him a chance to get them possibly shut down.
Soon France was typing away furiously on the computer while the Lyoko warriors talked with a teary eyed Aletia. Phantom though continued to study the group as he waited for them to do something until Ulrich spoke. "Hey Phantom why are you still here?"
A small smile appeared on the ghost's face before finally speaking. "Vacation."
crai22: Bet none of you saw this crossover coming any time soon. (Smirks devilishly)
Miota: (Let's out a sigh) Whatever, crai22 doens't own a thing except for the things he makes up and yes he knows about the spelling mistakes. I think we've gone over this enough as it is but apparently some people can't read so I'll say it again. He knows about the spelling mistakes so deal with it.