As Danny and Desiree walked down the streets of amity park Danny was looking for a specific street. The one that the bar holding the contest was on. When he had read the address he immediately knew where it was. Danny smiled and pointed at the street signs when they reached it.

"Alright. Made it to county road. Now then which way?" Danny asked. He looked down to the left but didn't see a sign. Turning to the right he smiled again. There covered in big neon lights was the bar. Danny then led Desiree over to the bar. Once in the bar Danny asked about the little contest. He had to sign in for the contest then was told to wait for it to begin. Danny then took a seat and had Desiree sit beside him.

While sitting down his ghost sense went off. Danny however just thought it was reacting to Desiree. A few minutes later the contest started. Then one by one people got up on stage to play whatever instrument they were using. There were a few instruments next to the stage that were provided by the bar for the contestants, but most people brought there own. There were some people playing the drums, a few trumpets, a violin, even a flute. It seemed the audience was also the judges because of the audience didn't like it the musician was eliminated from the contest. As a woman with a cello bowed and got off stage, one of the female bartenders got up to announce the next contestant.

"Now give it up for Emma McMillan!" She announced. Danny's ghost sense went off again and he couldn't believe who came on stage next. Walking on stage with her purple guitar with a blue fiery design was Ember McLain. Danny then facepalmed himself. Of course she would be here at a instrument contest. She had done a few things to pass off as human including putting her hair down, changing her clothes a bit, and wearing colored contacts to hide her glowing green eyes. However even with all of that and a fake name Danny still recognized her. No way could he have not recognized that guitar. Some of the guys did a wolf whistle. Ember simply smirked as she started to play her guitar. Danny immediately recognized the song as Back in Black by AC/DC. Everyone cheered as they heard the classic hard rock song. She played it perfectly no errors at all. Danny couldn't help but be impressed. She seemed to enjoy rocking out on the little stage. As she finished everyone cheered for her. She smirked before walking off the stage. "Up next. Danny Fenton!" The announcer said. Ember stopped and immediately looked back to see Danny take the stage. When she saw him all she could do was clench her fist and grit her teeth. Danny looked at ember and smiled as he saw her expression. Danny then grabbed one of the guitars the bar provided before getting ready. Once he was ready he started playing you really got me now by the kinks, it also got a cover by Van Halen. The entire time ember was glaring daggers at Danny. She was honestly surprised though that Danny could play a guitar. Never fumbling with his hands he finished the song perfectly. After that they went through the rest of the contestants. Once finished the announcer lady came on stage. "Ok ladies and gentlemen now it's time to introduce the real judges of the competition. In this second round we will have everyone perform, at the end our judges will pick the last 5 people who will compete in the third and final round." She said. With that three people came out. All of them mid thirties. One female, two male. They got some chairs and sat in front of the stage. Then everyone who hadn't been booed off stage came back to perform again. Ember played paranoid by Black Sabbath. When she did the judges seemed pleased by her performance. Danny performed crazy train from Ozzy Osbourne. It seemed the judges liked that as well. Soon it was time for them to announce who would go on to the last round. "The following contestants will be moving on to the finals. Ellen Smith. George kathson. Aaron theade. Emma McMillan. Danny Fenton. Now this time though there's a twist. Each contestant only has 2 minutes." Said the announcer after she read the letter that the judges had given. Desiree smiled and grabbed Danny's shoulder. Danny smiled.

"Now. It's just me, ember, and the other three."

"Just So you know. It doesn't matter where you place to me. I'm enjoying this." Desiree said. Danny smiled.

"If your happy, I'm happy. But that doesn't mean I can't enjoy beating ember." Danny said. Desiree smiled at him.

"No it doesn't." She agreed. The first three got up on stage and played their songs. They were good, but Danny didn't pay them any attention as ember was the real challenge here. She was the one who had real experience. Not to mention her entire power set were based around her musical talent. When ember got up on stage she immediately went hard. She wanted to blow the competition away by playing Metallica's Master of puppets. As she played Danny felt a sensation come over him. He felt Desiree move back in her seat about as she had her arm looped through his. She must have been feeling the same thing. Looking around Danny saw that the audience members of the bar were swaying as they listened. Danny then figured it out. Desiree was enchanting them with her music like a siren. Realizing this Danny used his powers to enhance himself and be able to resist her enchantment. The looking at Desiree, Danny realized she was enchanted. Her powers must not be strong enough at the moment. Danny then held Desiree's hand and passed his power into her. Breaking her of embers spell.

"What? What happened?" Desiree asked.

"Ember is using her powers." Danny whispered.

"She's cheating! We have to tell the judges!" She whisper yelled. Danny shook his head.

"Nah. I have a better idea." Danny said. He winked at Desiree. She could only look at him confused. As embers time came up she ended her little performance. She bowed and the entire bar clapped and yelled for joy in a way that said they were clearly in a trance. Danny then knew what he was gonna play, but if he was to play this he'd need a better guitar. He turned to Desiree and whispered. "I wish for a guitar exactly like I'm thinking." Danny said. Desiree looked at him then got to granting his wish. In a puff of purple smoke a guitar appeared on a stand at Danny's feet. It was a glossy black and white guitar, had a single cutaway design, a slim taper neck, and had a nice strap that Danny could throw over his shoulder to make sure he didn't drop the guitar. Danny got out of his seat, grabbed the guitar, then kissed Desiree on the cheek before going to the stage. Once on stage Danny looked at ember with a big smirk. Before she could do anything Danny sent out a wave of ecto-energy that got rid of any and all enchantments ember had set on the audience. When the enchantments were gone every felt slightly confused on some details. Danny then got ready before he had to play. Once ready he smiled widely before he started to play. The song? The guitar solo from Eddie Van Halen's Eruption. Immediately as he played embers eyes went wide as he played the legendary solo. The judges also seemed to recognize the solo as they looked a little shocked that here he was playing the solo. However Danny wasn't paying ember nor the judges any attention as Danny was giving his entire focus to the guitar making sure he never skipped a beat or even mess up a note. As Danny reached the climax everyone was shouting in amazement and excitement. By the time he finished everyone jumped to their feet and clapped and hollered at Danny's amazing performance. The judges then took the stage and one of them lifted Danny's hand.

"We have our winner." They said. Ember could only glare at Danny, and he simple smiled right back at her with the cockiest grin ever. After getting his prize which was a set of tickets for four to a concert that would happen in a month and a half. Danny got down and was hugged by Desiree.

"That was amazing! Where did you learn to play like that?" Desiree asked excitedly.

"I'd like to that too babypop." Ember said. Danny and Desiree looked at ember. Ember looked at Desiree with a arched eyebrow. "Who's She?" Ember asked.

"Let's walk." Danny said. The trio then went out of the bar and started walking. "Ember. I'm sure you know Desiree the wishing ghost." Danny said. Ember blinked twice before looking at Desiree.

"Desiree! The hell happened to you?!" Ember asked.

"None of your business." Desiree said as she stood by Danny, while holding his arm.

"I wouldn't say that." Said a all too familiar voice. Turning around Ember was facing the ghost of time, Clockwork.

"Who are you?!" Ember asked confused.

"I am Clockwork and you my dear are going to be visited by an old friend. Catherine clutterbuck." Clockwork said with a smile. Embers eyes went wide. Danny laughed.

"Clutterbuck?! Oh my gosh I feel so sorry for anyone with that name." Danny said.

"No! No! You won't catch me!" Ember said. She took off flying on her guitar but clockwork used his powers on her so that only she would start going back in time. Stopping at the point before she flew off. "You won't catch me!" She said. Clockwork then caught her. "No!" She screamed before clockwork created a vortex around her. Danny and Desiree put their hands up as the vortex was kicking up dirt and trash. When clockwork stopped the tornado surrounding ember, Danny and Desiree were faced by a shocking scene. Before them was ember in her past life when she was 14 just before her death, and she looked nothing like her punk rock afterlife image. Danny tried his best not to laugh but it was slipping out.

"What is he laughing at?" Ember asked. Her words slurred and not realizing what she looked like. At the sound of her voice she looked even more confused. Desiree couldn't answer as her jaw had fallen and she wasn't picking it back up. "What?" She asked. Finally Danny couldn't hold back as he busted out laughing.

"Oh my god!" He said laughing hysterically. "Is that what you looked like before you died?!" Danny asked laughing out loud. At that question ember went as pale as she had been as a ghost. Putting a hand to her face she felt a pair of thick glasses sitting on her nose. Breathing heavily she looked around searching for a reflection. Finally spotting one in a glass window, ember ran to it. When she was in front of it she was met by the horrifying image of herself when she was human. Seeing this ember did the only thing she could think. Scream her fucking head off. Ember wore one of those 80s sweatshirts that looked too small on everyone and showed off her bra strap on a shoulder, a pair of fishnet leggings and leg warmers covered her legs. All of which were bright neon and abso-fuckin-lutely betrayed her punk rock persona. But what made it a bit worse was what was on her head. She wore a thick pair of square rimmed glasses, her hair was bright red and in a terrible perm, and worst of all. She had a heavy set of braces on. Headgear and all.

"What did you do to me?! I'm human again! Don't look at me! I look terrible!" Ember cried looking to clockwork. Clockwork frowned.

"Yes. You are much to young for the future we are looking for. Excuse me." Clockwork said before he created another vortex. This time when it ended Ember was 18 years old and still human. No longer wearing braces, she looked a whole lot better now. Before she had a horrible perm, now her hair was straight and in a pony tail similar to how her hair was as a ghost. Her body was also well developed now. As a ghost she had to shapeshift to appear older as ghosts don't age, unless they purposefully change their appearance to better fit their mental state. As an 18 year old ember was actually really hot. The shortest way of explaining it would be that it was an ugly duckling transformation. Start out as ugly, misplaced, and not really well liked, but end up a drop dead gorgeous man killer at the end. She looked at herself in her reflection again. Surprised by her appearance.

"Holy shit! I'm fucking hot!" Ember said. She noticed how her breasts were bigger now. She squeezed them. "Are these real?!" She said amazed at how much they grew.

"Indeed they are Catherine." Clockwork. Ember whirled around angrily when clockwork called her that.

"My name is not Catherine anymore! It's ember!" Ember said angrily. Danny then put two and two together.

"Your name is Catherine clutterbuck?!" Danny Said with the biggest smile.

"You tell a soul of what you just saw and heard. YOU'LL BE A FULL GHOST!!!" Ember yelled, but Danny didn't care as he was laughing. Desiree's ability at holding her laughter in was amazing. However her ability to hold back her smile was terrible as was clearly having trouble fighting her smile back. Desiree turned her head and put her hand over her mouth. Ember growled angrily. At that moment her hair turned to red fire and stood up as she got angry.

"I can see why you named yourself ember!" Danny said while still laughing. Ember roared with rage, and at the same time her hair went for a camp fire to full on bonfire.

"Now now. That's no way for you two to fight. After all you two are to destined to be." Clockwork said. Ember and Danny looked at clockwork.

"What?!" They said in unison.

"I thought Desiree was going to be my wife?!" Danny said confused.

"Indeed She is. As is young ember." Clockwork said.

"Wait wait wait. Your telling me I'm gonna be married to this guy and have to share him with another woman?" Ember asked.

"Several others. Yes." Clockwork said.

"Wait! What?! I get a harem?!" Danny asked confused. Clockwork simply smiled. He then looked at Desiree. "But I'm fine with just desiree!" Danny Said looking back at clockwork.

"That may be so, but for the bright and glorious future of the ghost zone and the universe this is required." Clockwork said.

"Yeah! But a harem! That's wrong!" Danny said.

"I totally agree with dipstick here. Not only is it wrong but I don't think Desiree or anyone else who becomes a part of this harem would want to share babypop." Ember said.

"I'm fine with sharing." Desiree said. Everyone looked at her. "I was a harem girl before. I do not mind sharing him with others. It will be just like before with my old harem sisters. Except now I'll have different sisters." Desiree said. Danny and ember were shocked at her words.

"Well that settles it. Now then. Off you two go. Enjoy your time at the concert." Clockwork said.

"What concert?!" Ember asked.

"The one that's going on in 1996." Clockwork said smiling again as he sent the pair off to 1996. When Danny and ember realized it they found themselves in a bustling city. Danny looked around confused.

"Great. Again clockwork. You send us back in time to a city we don't know. I'll be back to find out where we are." Danny said.

"Wait!" Ember said. Danny stopped and looked at ember. She swallowed as she looked around. She remembered this place. "We're in Detroit." Ember said.

"How do you know?" Danny asked.

"I was raised in Detroit." Ember said. Danny looked at her more carefully.

"Your from Detroit?" Danny asked. Biting her lip and fighting back tears ember nodded. "Yeah. Me and my sister were born here in Detroit in 1972." She said as she started to smile.

"I didn't know you had a sister." Danny said. Realizing what she said wiped away a tear.

"Because that isn't any of your business... let's just find out why were here." Ember said. Danny noticed a poster with four faces on it. Danny immediately smiled when he recognized the band.

"I think I know." Danny said. He took the poster down. He then turned to ember. "Clockwork said enjoy the concert. Well. Seems theirs a kiss concert going on here in Detroit." Danny said showing the poster. Embers eyes went wide and ran to Danny grabbing the poster.

"OH MY GOD!!! I LOVE KISS!!!!" She said excitedly. Danny was slightly taken aback. She looked at him and realized how she was acting. "I mean... their Alright." She said trying to act more mature.

"A female rock n roller ghost loves a rock n roll band. How unique." Danny said with a cocky smile. Ember punches his shoulder. Danny didn't move or even flinch. He just smiled.

"Where is it happening?" Ember asked. Danny looked at the address.

"Tiger stadium." Danny said.

"I know where that is. Let's go." Desiree said. Smiling Danny followed the now human ember. Once at the stadium they were asked for tickets. Like last time Danny found them in his pocket. Once inside they walked around the stadium to find their seats.

"So... Catherine, huh?" Danny said curiously.

"Not gonna talk about it." Ember said.

"Oh come on. We're stuck here in 1996 together until midnight. Why not have a conversation. Get to know each other." Danny said.

"Ok. Fine. Here's a question for you. How do you know the famous clockwork?" Ember asked.

"I met him when I was 15. The guy was sending ghosts from the future to attack me. So I followed one of them to his domain where I saw a future where I was evil and ruled the world. In the end I learned he was trying to kill me, but save me. If he hadn't gotten involved I wouldn't be Danny phantom the superhero. I'd be Dan phantom world conqueror." Danny Said.

"Really. Who else did you see in this alternate future?" Ember asked.

"I saw Skulker and technus team up to become Skultech 9.9. I saw Johnny 13 who was in a wheel chair. Kitty wasn't all that great. The box ghost and his daughter the box lunch." Danny said.

"Box lunch? As in the daughter of the box ghost and the lunch lady?" Ember asked before shivering. "I don't want to think about that." She said. Danny chuckled.

"Neither do I." Danny Said.

"So. See anyone else?" She asked. Danny looked away. Ember repeated the question. "See anyone else?" She asked.

"Yeah. Uh... a older you." Danny said. Ember looked at him curiously.

"Well? Come on what did I look like?!" She asked.

"Ugh.. well. Again. This wasnt really the best of futures." Danny said.

"Just tell me already!" Ember said getting a little ticked.

"Well. You were kinda... fat." Danny said.

"What?!" Ember said shocked.

"Yeah... seems that evil me kinda broke your vocal cords. Sending you into a depression. My guess is that you kind of... Ate through your depression." Danny said.

"Man! That sucks!" Ember said slightly bummed out. Danny and ember then got some food before going to their seats.

"I can't believe I'm actually at a KISS concert!" Ember said excitedly.

"You never went to one when you were alive?" Danny asked. Ember shook her head.

"Nah. Mom didn't have the money for them. Having to take care of twin girls and not having dad around was tough on her." She said. Danny took the chance to talk to her about her life.

"Dad leave?" He asked. Ember looked at him for a second. Deciding wether she really wanted to talk to him about it.

"No. Car accident. Seemed like my family was plagued by accidents. Grandma died while being robbed, grandpa died at war, dad was in a car accident. I was in a house fire. It was just me, mom, and my sister Caroline." Ember said. Danny nodded.

"I'm sorry to hear that." Danny said. He looked to the stage and waited for the concert to start. Before it did Danny turned back to ember. "Sorry about laughing at your appearance and your last name." Danny said. Ember sighed.

"It's fine. I never really fit in. Me and my twin sister were outcasts in middle school. For our last name and our looks. We were identical. Everything about our physical body was exactly alike. Though personality wise she was better. I was a complete nerd. School was just easy for me. That didn't help me in the popularity department. My sister though. She was more creative. She was the artist in the family." She said. She looked down as she remembered her sister. "Funny thing. Me and her wished we could swap lives. I was smart, but I loved art. She was an amazing artist but she wanted to do science. Kinda cliche huh?" Ember asked.

"Yeah. It is cliche, but that doesn't make it mean any less to you then it does." Danny said. Ember smiled a bit and looked at Danny.

"You know for someone who's against having multiple girlfriends. You seem to be enjoying this date already." Ember said. Danny chuckled.

"Well. Technically if we started dating you'd be my only girlfriend right now. I kinda made a wish that Desiree and I were married to get her out of Doug jail time at walkers prison." Danny said. Ember laughed.

"You sly dog!" She said smirking.

"Also I would be lying if I said I didn't find you attractive before any of this. First time I saw you I thought you were pretty hot." Danny said.

"Nice pun." Ember said. Recognizing that he called her hot when her hair was literally fire as a ghost.

"I thought so too." And for your information. Catherine is a nice name." Danny said never looking away from the concert. Ember looked at him out of the corner of her eye before turning back to the concert. As the concert went on they listened to and enjoyed every song. The songs included Deuce, King of the Night Time World, Do You Love Me?, Calling Dr. Love, And Several other songs. As the concert was nearing its end ember heard her favorite song that was by kiss.

I was made for loving you

Ember smiled. "Oh my god! Yes! I love this song!" Ember said excitedly.

"Really? Why this song?" Danny asked over the roaring crowds.

"This was the song that introduced me to the world of rock 'n' roll! Released on May 23rd 1979! It was Caroline and mines 7th birthday and all we could afford at the time was a single music album. We saw the cover for the album and the name of the band. Caroline thought they looked funny and I liked that the bands name was KISS. So after a bit of begging mom bought the cd. The first song in the album is 'I was made for loving you'. It opened up a world of possibilities!" Ember said. Danny looked at ember and saw how much she was enjoying the song. He then got up from his seat. Ember looked at him confused. He then offered his hand.

"Come with me." Danny said. Confused ember took his hand and they got up and went out into the hall. Danny stopped at a spot where they wouldn't be seen.

"What are we doing?" Ember asked.

"Getting a better spot." Danny said. Then holding embers hand Danny became intangible and flew with ember down so they were at the mosh pit. Soon they were in the mosh pit with tons of other people. Then Danny used his mind control powers to make it easier for them to push their way to the front. Once there they were directly in front of the band were jamming away to the song.

"It was so bad of us to do this!" Ember yelled over the music.

"You want to go back?!" Danny yelled.

"I didn't say that!" Ember said with a smirk. While in the mosh pit Danny watched Desiree and she threw her head back and forth whipping her hair around. It felt like seeing another side of her that he hadn't noticed before. She wasn't plotting world domination, no young adult revolution, or any other sinister plot she ever had. She was just... enjoying herself. Once it was over ember was happy and thought they should go back to their seats which kind of surprised Danny.

Once they were back in their seats they listened to the rest of the concert. The show ended with them playing 'I wanna rock 'n' roll, all nite!', just after playing 'Detroit Rock City'. I mean come on. They're in Detroit, they basically have to play it. Once it was over everyone started making their way for the exits. As Danny and ember made it outside they talked about how great the concert was. While walking outside ember froze as they passed by someone. Danny didn't realize she stopped until a few seconds later. He turned to look at her and found her looking back. After rejoining her he saw who she was looking at. A women. About mid twenties, holding hands with two little girls. All of them had red hair similar to embers human form. The little girls were so happy and giddy having just come from the concert. They waited by the bus stop. The woman constantly looking at her watch. Once the bus came they got on. Through the window Danny saw her face. She looked almost exactly like ember except a little older. Ember put her hand over her mouth. Danny stopped looking at the bus then to ember.

"That was Caroline. Wasn't it?" Danny Said. Ember turned to Danny having forgotten he was there. Then looked back at the bus as it was driving away.

"Yeah." She said quietly. She looked down solemnly. "It has to be her. I'd recognize her no matter how much older she got." Ember said. Danny looked at his watch.

"Sorry we don't have time to go after her. If this is anything like how it happened with Desiree. Clockwork should be pulling us back in less then a minute. It's 11:59." Danny said. A tear fell down embers cheek as she started to cry. She missed her sister. It had been so long since she saw her and there she was with two little girls of her own. Danny could only do one thing right now. So in an act of comforting Danny wrapped his arms around her and pulled into his chest where she could cry as much as she wanted. Danny closed his eyes as he awaited the sound of his watch beeping. Then, there it was. The watched beeped exactly on time. Danny sighed before opening his eyes. But what he saw shocked him. They were still in Detroit city. Confused Danny looked around, but saw no sign of clockwork. Ember felt him shift and looked to see they were still in Detroit.

"I thought you said he would pull us out at midnight?" Ember said sniffling.

"I did." Danny said. He looked at his watch. "I thought he would pull us out at midnight." Danny said. They looked around again trying to find some sort of sign from clockwork but saw nothing. Danny then looked at his watch again.

12:01

So that KISS concert was a real thing, it really did happen in 1996 in the city of Detroit. However I have no clue what time of day it happened and I don't know if all the songs I put in the story actually happened at that specific concert. So I set the time to be at night and chose a few songs to go with the story. Hope you enjoyed the story.